I'm using a flat punch from Accurate molds.
Since most of my boolits are flat nose, these punches work great.
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Forum: Casting Equipment
I'm using a flat punch from Accurate molds.
Since most of my boolits are flat nose, these punches work great.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Sounds like a good idea! Least then I'd know what height I'd need.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Thank you! The brownels, shows a front sight height of .578
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Dug through my parts bin and found this marbles sight. Had to file some off the bottom to get it to fit.
The original sight is .390 from the dovetail to the point. The marbles is .500, (might be too...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Measured at the outer edge of the sight. Once off It actually measures .350
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Well took my little 44-40 RB carbine out to the range today.
They had 100 yards with a camera to see your hits and just binoculars for the 50 yard target.
I ran three rounds at the 100 yard,...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
The last three shoots have been cancelled due to weather. First two times was due to rain and snow, this time the wind. Would have been shooting half size silhouettes today, they don't like the wind....
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Shoots cancelled due to wind gusts, 25mph +. Argh!!
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Jumping in with both feet, Lord willing!
Tomorrow, going to go to my first Cowboy silhouette shoot in four years, had to stop during captain tripps. Was shooting a Marlin 1894S in 44 mag last time...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Figured it was time to get a lead thermometer.
Bought a Lyman electronic thermometer off amazon last week. It arrived next day.
Fired up my old lee pot. Put a battery in the thermometer, turned...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
When your Lyman electronic scale acts wonky.
When your RCBS 505 acts finicky.
And your Lyman plastic scale freezes.
You dig out your old Redding scale with hydraulic dampening!
This thing...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Unsure if this is where it needs to be? Long, but here it goes.
Back in the late 80's me and my dad were always messing with military rifles, 1917 Eddystone's, Mosin Nagants, 03A3's, Mauser's,...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Great video! Loved the exploding can of soup! Icky brand anyway!
Outpost75, DaveM thanks for the info!
Did two casting sessions over the weekend. Started up the pot and set the mold on the rim to heat up. First two casts, not so great but after that the boolits...
Forum: Our Town
I don't know?
I've seen a lot of company's merge, or sell out with the promise nothing will change for the consumer or employees, then six months to a year later everything is different or gone!
...
Forum: Our Town
I use evaporust on some of the antique kerosene lamps I deal with.
Quite a few have iron bases and iron or steel stay bolts, almost always rusted.
I put the parts in an old sealable coffee can...
Just received my first brass mold. Accurate 43-215C.
Some say patina it before casting some say just start using it as is. No gun stuff in or on the stove, per Wife! Ok will start without the...
Forum: Our Town
Ran across this the other day.
Very good tune!
I think about this quite a bit anymore!
https://youtu.be/eatNbYfypXs?si=AHaTDn0DtqfaZRQN
Forum: Our Town
We dropped progressive years ago, no accidents or claims, kept going up each month! Hence the name progressive!
Currently Liberty mutual, 3 vehicles, ones a classic so we're around that $2400 mark...
Digging through our boolit molds I found this Lee single cavity 90344 mold.
Casted up fifty of them.
Came out at .430 and 240grns with my salvaged lead.
Tried google and duckduck for the...
Questions.
Body diameter? I would like the boolits to drop at .429 so do I order the body diameter at .429?
Bullet alloy? Range lead? As far as lead goes here, a little of everything from hard...
Forum: Our Town
Snow?!!
Have not made an appearance to our local cowboy silhouette shoots since captain tripps.
So I have been itching to attend.
Sundays the shoot, Birthdays the same day so I thought that...
Forum: Our Town
We really need a "like button"! some real great responses.
At 15 my first job was baling hay and farm upkeep. Rough, hard and at times filthy. Three hours a day after school and all day Saterday,...
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 |