To each his own but I learned 40 years ago to despise the sticky oil/pad case lubing method. Nothing has changed my mind. After the Rcbs branded STP I used the Lee water-soluble stuff for a time and...
Type: Posts; User: DonHowe
Forum: Boolit Lube !
To each his own but I learned 40 years ago to despise the sticky oil/pad case lubing method. Nothing has changed my mind. After the Rcbs branded STP I used the Lee water-soluble stuff for a time and...
Forum: Cast Boolits
RobP1
As others have mentioned, you need to control your alloy temp. Your bullets show me you are getting the feel for casting. Keep your ally temp steady then try to keep your casting routine...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Reading the comments in this thread leaves me a bit surprised. I have not loaded for. 35 Whelen but did so for. 338-06. Before beginning to make brass I read all I could find on the subject. Everyone...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Determine o. a. l then fill case to base of bullet with Swiss 1.5f
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Not about hard to focus, just that it is easy for any of us to look at a problem over and over and get nowhere because we look at it the same way each time. The various thoughts presented here merged...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
OK, investigating. Chamber neck diameter is 0.2920-0.2925. Not fron Saami print, but physically measured from a lead slug of the chamber neck. Necks of several loaded rounds rounds with mIcrometer...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
405grain: the projection on front of sear not etrring that slot in the bolt would explain what I am experiencing. It has to be ammo related as it only happens with a round in the chamber. The chamber...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have mentioned this M95 before. It is barreled/chambered for. 257 Robert's. Yesterday while attempting to fireform brass I noticed a further issue with the trigger. More often than not the trigger...
Forum: Cast Boolits
In my opinion 12 is The gauge due to it's wider and shorter shot column for a given shot wreght. But, and that is a big But, the Brits have always had the right idea in terms of 12ga loads. Our...
Forum: Cast Boolits
It Is easier to shoot accurately with small mild recoiling cartridges. However, one cannot always shoot the mildest recoiling cartridge unless only plinking or shooting small bore competition with....
Forum: Cast Boolits
Recoil is purely physics. How the shooter reacts to recoil is purely subjective. Every shooter has a recoil limit which has nothing to do with physical size. Learned technique and psychology can move...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have hunted deer with cast and jacketed bullets. Never harvested one yet but I have killed some. Either type bullet put in the right place will make em dead.
A whole bunch of this comes down to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thinking of gas cutting as "dumping BTUs in a small area" is akin to a leak in a dam becoming bigger as all the water tries to escape thru one hole. That raises another question in my mind. The...
Forum: Cast Boolits
FWIW a bit of Googling revealed that the ignition temp of paper is 450°F and that of cotton is given as 410°F. Cotton is said to self-combust at 764°F.
We are familiar with Temps at which lead and...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Not sure how to pose this or if I can accurately state what is in my head but I will try. I'm looking for thoughtful comments, not argument.
Over my years of gun owning, tinkering, reloading,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
You're right, the factory .30-06 barrel has a coned breech. The new barrel is fitted to the receiver (w/ P14 bolt) and flat breech face forrimmed cartridge. My planning has not gone as far as...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I know it is a hoot to load a fairky soft #353 in .38 Spl cases over 2.7gr of 700X then shoot them from a 22" .357 Max Handi. Rifle.
Forum: Cast Boolits
.450 BPE with soft lead bullet or .22LR birdshot. Take your pick!
Forum: Cast Boolits
Having an idea of Veral's thinking, if I had any money, I would bet this mold was designed for a specific firearm and use and diameters determin# by a slug of the throat of that particular rifle. I...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Funny how things work out!
This thread/project really caught my attention and interest. A rifle-builder buddy texted me Sunday PM that a mutual friend gunsmith had sent home with him a nearly...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Tapered bullets are often used for breechseating as the taper allows the bullet to be fully engaged in rifling without as much engraving/dustorting as with a cylindrical bullet. This is like the Pope...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Not going to say never but to get to base diameter from ~.470 it seems to me IF you could swage all that web down there would be no primer pocket or flashhole left and almost certainly lathe work to...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Bertram maybe?
20+ years ago I went to check out a Schuetzen match I had heard of. A gent greeted me and asked if I had come to shoot. I said I had no appropriate rifle and just wanted to see what...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have never figured out how to post pics. That said, this rifle is a work in proress. At this point the stock is a rework of a broken military job and ment to be an interim handle. Also the metal...
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 |