Thank you both - I did forget about this one.
I knew that people used to convert the guns to 50 BMG, but I didn't look that up.
I have one, could have gotten a couple dozen today. $4 ea.
They...
Type: Posts; User: TurnipEaterDown
Forum: Vintage Ammo
Thank you both - I did forget about this one.
I knew that people used to convert the guns to 50 BMG, but I didn't look that up.
I have one, could have gotten a couple dozen today. $4 ea.
They...
Forum: Vintage Ammo
A what is it?
Cartridge looks like a 50 Browning, with a couple differences:
(Measured casing, may not be exact, would expect to be under min chamber.)
Rim 0.800"
BELT 0.850"
Base ahead of...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I think we see it about the same way then! :)
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Nice explanation w/ detail, However, I think that this really needs to state: "Energy tells you the POTENTIAL volume of the temporary stretch cavity."
There is a heavy dependency on bullet design...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
My understanding is that Eagle Picher in this district is flooded, and is leaching lead into the down stream waterways to a significant extent.
There was a you-tube video and other info on topic I...
Point in my line of thought was: separating the bullet and its behavior from your rifle from the behavior of the powder under that bullet.
You question the powder choice.
Earlier question...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Some may appreciate:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17445647.2022.2057877
I can understand why you may not be thrilled with those group sizes.
What do other powders show for grouping with the same bullet, size and hardness?
Also, mixed brass: I often run into issue w/...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Only problem I see w/ 44 on Elk is trajectory at range, and bullet selection (forget the jacketed HP).
Energy is a very poor estimator of terminal effect on game animals, as has been written about...
Forum: Swaging
Can't resist...
I used to tell people I was an optimistic pessimist: I knew "it" was likely to go in the hamper, but with hard work we could "make it happen"...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Some may find this interesting:
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-100.php
Forum: Cast Boolits
The production of smokeless gunpowder involves the use of acids.
If not fully neutralized, the residual acids in the powder will contribute to an increase in deterioration rate.
As the powder...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Well, 50 yrs of "advancement" is surely fair reason. :)
My response was more general.
I was taking the recoil comments more in the line of thought like the comments I used to get for shooting...
Beagling and honing are not the same. I recently got a LEE 6 hole 44 mold - all holes cast small (0.427-0.429", and yes it was a 44 mag application), and as a side note dropped bullets w/...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Two comments I didn't see anyone respond to:
(post 6) "...shows where I had two of the cavities filled and the bullets came out all crumbly and still attached to the left over lead." and
(post...
Forum: Our Town
Maybe you are thinking of the Merritt stick on apperature? - not a magnifier, but a device that does tend to sharpen the image.
I think it was Merritt.
Forum: Factory Rifles
Just don't understand the comments of hesitancy to fire a gun like this due to injury.
People didn't get less physically capable in 100 years - 4 generations roughly, the gun weighs almost 17...
Forum: Our Town
I get "free" safety glasses from work - I pay for progressive, tint, "fancy frames" (i.e. non BC frames).
So, I get an untinted pair, with "upside down" progressive prescription to put the big...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I put a 7-30 Contender together years ago so my son could use it when he first went deer hunting - ended up putting a R700 7x57 together too before he went and it got a spongy limbsaver pad and...
I believe "staynless" are non corrosive - marketing gimick in the naming.
Look them over, may well also say "Non-Mercuric Staynless Primers". It was their naming for "new" non-mercuric primers.
...
Great cartridge in my opinion - I have the Ackley variant, which did nothing for velocity btw. I have taken deer with it, wild hogs, an elk, and a bison.
PowerPro 2000 MR makes it steam like...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
My memory of grandma canning corn: electric carving knife swiped down the cob end to end multiple times. After blanching.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Have a pretty pitted barrel on a Yugo 24-47 8x57 -- shoots cast fine. Very consistently too. 50/50 lube w/ some lithium grease added, and bullet ~ 20 BHN.
196 SAECO GC, 16 gr 2400, 10 gr BE, 22.5...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Lar45 - how did the repeat go?
BTW: 200 @ 2300-2400 Seems peppy for what is in practical terms a 35 Rem AR, though do realize you likely are targeting higher operating pressures. 2-300 fps seems...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Good & Interesting info on the correction to my statement.
I will say that the lot of PP 300 MP I have is not slower than any of the W296 I have had, but as noted, lot to lot and all that.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |