I come nowheres close enough to have the smarts to advise a remedy vis your dilemma. However, I feel compelled to share this: I bought a Remington XP100 in .221 Fireball with hopes of getting many...
Type: Posts; User: georgerkahn
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I come nowheres close enough to have the smarts to advise a remedy vis your dilemma. However, I feel compelled to share this: I bought a Remington XP100 in .221 Fireball with hopes of getting many...
Forum: Our Town
My credit rating, as of this morn, is 819. I still have my 2016 Toyota Tacoma, which I bought new in that year; one deer hit and one turkey splat (both >5 years back) as only claims; never had a...
A printing business that reprints many gun-related pamphlets, instructions and the like is called Cornell. Their site is https://cornellpubs.com/ and they have many Ideal handbooks, which give...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
hemmjo-- You reinforce my challenges (actually, "extreme disappointment" may be a better expression) after I purchased the XP100 in .221 Fireball I had longed for, for a good many years! I tried...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have this brand lights on my Dillon 550b; my Forster Co-ax; and, my MEC Marksman presses! I, too, cannot say enough "good" about the product! And... I've had/used them for quite a while with zero...
Forum: Military Rifles
My choice would by Michael or Anthony Pucci at Orion7 Enterprises on Long Island, New York. Michael has totally trouble-shooted and repaired -- yes, new barrel included -- M1 Garands for a club I'm...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Happy you saw the high primers and that you ad not a slam fire. Years back a fellow at range had a high primer jam the cylinder in the revolver he was attempting to shoot. (I never did hear how that...
Forum: Our Town
I started "work" at age 13, my job cleaning dropping boards in a poultry farm, where I'd get three dollars for filling three pickup truck beds -- heaping -- with the stuff I dumped in, using bushel...
Paul (catmandu) -- Perhaps the only thing I profess to be a master of is ignorance on too any things to list :) -- so you piqued my interest re "what I have". Hence, I went to an H&G Web-Site --...
I am privileged to own a no-dash Model 52. It is a joy to load and shoot. My mould is the one designed and marketed by Hensley & Gibbs specifically for this pistol -- their #527, listed as a ".38...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I "started" my sons handgun shooting with a Savage .22 Long Rifle Single Shot Blue, 4” Barrel “Revolver” (S/n 50xxx), giving them ONLY .22 short ammo. Typical me, the barrel periodically had a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Just a suggestion which has worked well for me -- in that I tell medics I fish a lot -- true -- and lead sinkers may not be sold/purchased in my state, so I need cast my own -- also true. Further,...
Forum: Rimfire Area
elmacgyver0, you do make a good point re not needing to spend a fortune. I was privileged to be invited to a rabbit hunt a few years back -- mid 1970s -- and reckoned I needed a scope for my...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Admittedly lead paint chips do not contribute to a healthy diet -- I recall a Forensic Files t.v. episode where a toddler --- playing on the porch -- accidentally ingested enough to kill her! Peeling...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I have several scoped .22 rifles, and pretty much my favourite is the old 3-9x Weaver .22 "Classic" Rimfire scope. Note that Weaver had a "rim-fire line", too, which was priced considerably lower...
Forum: Military Rifles
I have no idea ;) re "How many of you guys..." -- BUT I ALWAYS have brass length as my number 1 priority! Waaaay back -- maybe 40 years ago -- I got my first M1 Carbine and had miss and hit firing...
Forum: Special Projects
MY EXPERIENCE: Five or six years ago I bought one of their slingshots (Awesome product!); the next year, when I reckoned I should have/keep another a camp, I bought a second -- as well as some of...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
You are, indeed, both a master craftsman and artist! If not presently, I'm SURE you can earn a substantial (2nd?) income from making and selling similar!!! (Put me on your waiting list :)). My only...
Forum: Our Town
"Thanks for getting me 'worried'" re this! :) "They" keep changing the rules/laws -- and my wife and I are both OK for ten more months -- and I still have NO idea HOW to renew. Other than the FACT...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I, too, have/love the 10mm Auto calibre, as a btw :). Germaine to your question, my experience many different brands of brass are -- albeit produced to SAAMI standards -- a tad different --...
A good friend, now :( deceased, had a couple of dozen handguns in several different calibres. Over the years he traded/sold off all except his 1911 .45 and Model 41 S&W .22 for competition --...
Not of the "group" ;) ;) ;) -- but just "me" -- the Savage Striker is , imho, kind of a rare duck -- along with, say, Ithaca's "X-Caliber" handguns. If I recall not that many were produced between...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
While your choices (Starrett, Greendield, etc.) are GREAT ones -- my dad -- a tool and die maker -- professed his favourites being tools made by Brown & Sharpe. I have a few -- micrometers,...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Happy vis your upcoming gift! To your question, I have been of the thought that if one adds water -- even with the Dawn and d/w rinse aid -- to dirt -- one would get, at most, sudsy mud. When the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
This post says it all! Its ONLY about money - money - money! A few years back the associate in a True-Value hardware store brought two IDENTICAL, except their painted colour, vices to my attention....
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 |