Next Step.....Bullet sizing and lubricating with a Magma Star Lube-Sizer... A quick video
https://youtu.be/p3wONUOMmWM
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Next Step.....Bullet sizing and lubricating with a Magma Star Lube-Sizer... A quick video
https://youtu.be/p3wONUOMmWM
Forum: Cast Boolits
Don, Thanks for watching! The larger the pot, the higher the delta in weight between a full pot and a half full pot. I have a 25 pound pot I played with that showed wide variance in weight in bullets...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Casting Lead bullets with my "Lead Still"....A quick video...https://youtu.be/JvHHQJYjhps
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I rebarreled my 5.5" NM Vaquero to 4.62"......Needed to modify the ejector rod housing so the attachment holes lined up. Made a jig for the lathe to accomplish it. Too many pictures and words for...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
RANGE REPORT....Not too good! The lead bullets that came with the rifle do not fit the bore properly and keyhole at lower velocity. With enough powder they expand enough to be marginally...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I took that Lyman 1878 to the range yesterday........Once again I hate Lyman tang sights. No windage adjustment, no elevation clicks or other markings. Very hard to adjust accurately. Had a hard time...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Check out the article on my web site about lining an 50/70 Sharps
www.rvbprecision.com
Forum: Single Shot Guns
During the past year I've been selling off a few firearms to help support other hobbies and some travel. I vowed, at 67 years old, I'd stop buying firearms. Most of the guns I sold I never fired!...
Forum: Leverguns
In Shooting Cowboy Action you need a cart to haul the guns and gear from one stage to another. It was time for a new, updated cart. Banged this one out this week.
Tons of pictures and a write up...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Do you have a shotgun that simply does not shoot to POA?
I did and I needed to do something about it!
"Shotgun Barrel Bending to Change Point Of Impact"
A full report is now posted on my web...
Forum: Leverguns
Actually, the problem isn't the loading gate or lack of one. The real issue is the centerfire Henry rifles are simply terrible! Very clunky in the hand. Fail to run even close to fast. Jam up...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks for all the comments, but nothing could be easier of give better results than my large Tumblers Tumbler and these dish washing pods. Easy Peasy!
I had the Harbour Freight tumbler but I burnt...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Absolutely Reline back to 38-55. Grea5 cartridge and the barrel markings remain true.
TJ Liners from track of the wolf are excellent. Check out my web site for a number of articles on saving these...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Ah, just read the link thread. Yo7 can buy a 50-70 liner from Track Of The Wolf and a piloted drill from PTG. Makes a barrel lining very easy.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
First of all, what cartridge and what type Rifle?
Second, we usually do not use epoxy. Loctite 620 is used mostly now. And you just want a slip fit. No wiggling.
A few articles on my web site...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I've been using SS pins in a tumbler for a few years now to clean black powder cartridges. Usually I use filtered tap water and Dawn withvavfewvdropsbof Lem-Shine. Works ok but brass does not look...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Yup...It Shoots!
50 yds / 430g LEE / 70g Shockey FFG / CCI LR Mag Primers
Bench rested:
https://images56.fotki.com/v1664/photos/2/36012/14768744/IMG_20180605_102910515-vi.jpg
Off Hand:...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Yup...It Shoots!
50 yds / 430g LEE / 70g Shockey FFG / CCI LR Mag Primers
Bench rested:
https://images56.fotki.com/v1664/photos/2/36012/14768744/IMG_20180605_102910515-vi.jpg
Off Hand:...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Got the liner chamber reamed and LocTited into the old barrel!
Read about this part of the adventure here:
www.rvbprecision.com
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
The project has started. Relining an old 1859 Sharps carbine to 50-70
Lots of pictures and easier to read on my website.
Check it out here:...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
You can very clearly see where my barrel was reclined. Maybe it was reclined and then bored out as a Shotgun?
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
There is enough barrel left for a low pressure, 50-70, black powder cartridge.
The extractors tip will be TIG welded to make longer and then reshaped. I had to do this on a couple of my reline...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Took the butt plate off th3 Sharps to da6 to see if it had a serial number. No serial number but someone, long ago, put a leaf under th3 butt plate. No way it could have gotten in ther3 on its own....
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 |