I've made 2 hand gun trips to Africa, both were using cast bullets. I plan to make a third trip next year after my knee heals up from a replacement surgery.
On my last trip I took a Freedom Arms 41...
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Forum: Hunting with CB's
I've made 2 hand gun trips to Africa, both were using cast bullets. I plan to make a third trip next year after my knee heals up from a replacement surgery.
On my last trip I took a Freedom Arms 41...
Yes, if you go light & fast you're going to get noise! Just no way around it but I can get some really fine accuracy out of the Blackhawk 30 Carbine, my single six, single seven, 8 shot blackhawk &...
I have one & love it, I use a 243 gr powder coated HP with the Skeeter load most times & it shoots amazing. Shot a lot of small game, I need to whack to deer with it sometime, it wouldn't be a big...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I killed a very large buck several years ago, large body but a smallish rack using a Ruger #1 & the old Gould 33 gr HP & a load of 38 grs of 3031, pretty much a factory 45/70 load. That load was a...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
That's a great bullet, I use it in revolvers & from the looks of those lungs & the look on your face she wasn't happy but you sure were, congratulations!! Don't change anything.
Dick
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Congratulations & well done with a nice looking cast bullet. I'm guessing your next one will be with a HP as well. I shot a very large muley buck with the old Gould 330 gr cast HP years ago in the...
I'm old enough to know I'd have a tough time even seeing a soda can at 500 feet, much less hitting it...... For most of us the bisley grip frame works just fine if we are going to wind it up a bit....
Here's a Kensight, installed by Bobby Tyler at Tyler Gun Works in Friona, Texas.
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Forum: Hunting with CB's
Congratulations on a fine Aoudad, hunting with a six gun is like no other & you did just fine. Could have just been the angle. 16.0 grs of 2400 isn't a really heavy load in a 45 Colt case so don't be...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
We've taken them in the morning & the evening, all spot & stalk, never hunted them over bait although it's legal in some parts of Idaho. Between me, my 4 son's & some grandson's we've taken 26 bears...
Forum: Our Town
A German Shepherd bit me in the thigh once when I was in high school, guess I knocked on the wrong door but there was no fence & no sign. I guarantee it will never happen again.
Dick
I love the 44 specials & have a few of them to choose from. I have taken several deer with the Ruger flat tops, both in the plow handle shorty, the 5.5" bisley & a very special 7.5" bisley. Another...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Dang! Two full pages of replies & not one single photo, what is going on here! When I was in the military back in the 60's in Texas I shot a fair number of them with my recurve bow & wooden arrows,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
So what does a person do with their time, just stand in a corner, play on the computer, talk on the phone? We all have to have a worthwhile hobby & I think most people on here must like to cast &...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I'd say 1800 fps from that FA ought to get the job done, probably went clear through.......nice work, keep after them!
Dick
wilecoyote, instead of hi jacking the thread any more than we already have it might be best if you just go over to the
singleactionsforum, then you can read about the whole safari. When you get over...
I'll send it back when I kill something with it!
Dick
Tyrone is correct, if you are getting shots from the sitting position this little sling rest is great. I live in the mountains so my shots are almost never broadside, that is, I'm either shooting...
I use old shot bags that I fill with fine sand from the ready mix plant close by & I make sure the top bag is only half full so I can "channel" my revolver down into the bag. Then I place a piece of...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
It's been about 8 years ago now but when we were spending our winters in Arizona I noticed nobody was reclaiming the bullets from the berms & we were shooting 3 matches a week. So I built a box with...
Forum: Our Town
I'm soooo glad I stocked up on Unique before the craziness started, I'm good for quite a while.
Dick
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Welcome to the world of hand gun hunting, you're going to feel a new excitement you haven't felt in a long time. Cast bullets will work great for you, I've been using them for over 50 years & taken...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
That would make a very good alloy.
Dick
Forum: Cast Boolits
OK, I'm late to the dance but I'm enjoying this anyway. I just bought a model 1905SL marked 35SL. I got 5 rounds of factory ammo marked 35SL, is this the same as the 351SL, I'm thinking it might be...
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 |