I was banned for life from another well known site for precision shooters for calling COAL from the tip of the bullet to the cartridge base, and not from the base to the datum on the bottleneck and...
Type: Posts; User: pwc
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I was banned for life from another well known site for precision shooters for calling COAL from the tip of the bullet to the cartridge base, and not from the base to the datum on the bottleneck and...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
Are you going to use the dies; go to home depot, doesn't have to be thin.
If you are just going to dosplay, keep looking.
All my "old" is still productively working
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I know that golf balls are dimpled to give xtra range. Don't know why this works as it interrupts the laminar flow over the ball. I have heard that hollow point pistol rounds were packed with...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
How do you polish the crown? Brass / lead ball and valve grinding compound?
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Well, I probably should have said that Ben Avery is "my" go to range. I'm far NW valley. Nice to see the others, even if they are 40-60 mile drive.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Well, I probably should have said that Ben Avery is "my" go to range. I'm far NW valley. Nice to see the others, even if they are 40-60 mile drive.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Black powder (front stuffer) clubs/organizations in the Phoenix AZ, area? Maybe just a loose group of folks that get together. ASRPA doesn't show any.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Use the formica counter top; it h AZ s a backsplash to keep things from fall ing off the back and a front "swell" to keep things from rolling off the front, just *** some side rails. That's what I...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
This thread isn't just about BP improvement, it's a out BP discussion. Not over, not out...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Vettepilot- no, no, no....you can NOT work outside 2 mo. of the year. Reat of the time you can if you get aclamatized and drink warer. Today, 8/14 is tp be 113-115 in Phoenix.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I first discovered this thread around post #2053, and spent 3 long evenings reading from #1 thru 2053. I copied and pasted the essential elements of the components (make or buy), how to...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
My post was in reply to how it was originally done during the civil war. I get it now commercially, but send the link....always willing tp learn new way of foing old stuff.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
0 Seems like all black powder rifle buttstocks have the classic steel or brass buttplate. Now, the 2X barrel shotguns have a flat shotgun butt.
Now, is the rifle made to shoot from the shoulder...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Get the book "Foxfire 5"; it is part of a series of books from the 70's - 80's on preserving early american life in Apalachia, "affairs of just plain living". Page 252 of gunmaking tells how to get...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Manuals
Sounds kinda' like "Second Hand Lion"....I like it.
Maricopa County College Libraries had a circulatin copy in the mid 80s but when I went back to check it out for the umteenth time, the record...
Forum: Our Town
You could use pinwheels like what we played with when kids. When they spin in the wind they flash.
Forum: Our Town
You could use pinwheels like what we played with when kids. When they spin in the wind they flash.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Dimmer switch may not work, but Harbor Freight does sell a speed control for use with routers....and I also use it for my Dremel tool.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I have only been following this thread for about a year...and learned how to make my own BP. When I started I went back to the very beginning and read every post. It took 3 late night evenings; I...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Are we ever going to talk about making black powder or have we exausted discussion about it?
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Boz330 - "I like flying as a means of transport but Jumping out of perfectly good airplanes - I never really understood that ??????"
That's the thing about freefall parachuting...You can't explain...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I feel like I'm a 17 yr old trapped in a 73 yr old body.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Fly, I'm 73 too....have my 4th great grand around Christmas. I have a Prius that will almost match your bike on mileage. Not playing one upman ship...just comparing old farts.
I know what you...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Lethemgo - no the bolster and nipple are original. I bought the gun new 15 years ago for my grandson to use in 4H shooting. I always used boiling water to clean out with a 'mop' on the rod,...
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 |