NEAT!
Remington was still using one of those barrel straightening devices in the custom shop when I got to tour the Ilion plant in 2002 - - mainly because they still hadn't found a better way to...
Type: Posts; User: Bigslug
Forum: Military Rifles
NEAT!
Remington was still using one of those barrel straightening devices in the custom shop when I got to tour the Ilion plant in 2002 - - mainly because they still hadn't found a better way to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I always like to point out that the reason we don't have to shoo bison out of our petunia patches today is because they were nearly wiped out by heavy solid .45's moving in the ballpark of 1200 fps. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Just one mold for a lever action brush gun?
The NOE 460-396 in the "RG" hollow point format for versatility. There's a good argument for the gas check version - higher speeds with softer alloys -...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
A lot of variables, but figure that a meticulous, log-book keeping, clean-every-X-number of rounds sniper shooting factory jacketed match .308 through a match barrel would likely lose match accuracy...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I don't recall the gory details, my Dad's gave him fits trying to get it to shoot - it was a nightmare that required several different attempts at a custom mold.
I believe it had a very large...
I think a review of our old Webley thread might shed light on the place you're going to eventually end up.
You've exceeded the mass of the .38/200 and enhanced it's frontal area somewhat (remember...
Forum: Cast Boolits
SUGGESTION: Strip the insulation off the last inch of a piece of solid-core copper wire. Bash it flat with a hammer then clip it off square with some diagonal cutters. You now have a carbon...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Haven't run it in the Brits yet, but H414 has been OUTSTANDING with 200 grain bullets in a pair of .30-06's.
1911. Tisas for value; Springfield for variety, customer service, etc...
Accurate Molds 45-230H - currently my end-product on what was a 4-mold hunt for perfection. Feeds well, hits hard, easy...
Pettypace,
I think what you're concocting - assuming it stays nose-forward - is probably a .35 caliber version of what the .45 Colt and ACP were intended to do: Mostly we're going to shoot the...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Unknown burn rate = unknown effects.
Prior to mixing, you at least sort of had some idea of what family it would have come from. Even then, potentially dangerous or not giving the desired affect....
Ya know, the No.1 action would probably make for a dandy specialty pistol for those who are into that sort of thing.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Good old wooden kitchen match will get it done too. As already stated, you want to rub off and re-do your smoking from time to time, since you're potentially adding a little height to your front...
It seems a little like sleeving the guns of the U.S.S. Iowa to shoot 5.56 NATO. . .
Good option for hunting or target guns where speed of acquisition or recovery isn't a concern. . .which when you consider that is what handguns were originally for, you realize it paints one into...
No need to guess. It doesn't - at least not all that well. I recently started loading the round and that bullet ended up being one that fed sort of OK out of one magazine, and pretty much not at...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I rounded up all my agency's .40S&W's 3.5 years ago and "cast" them as far away as I could. Sorry - couldn't resist.:mrgreen:
Loaded to factory spec with 180 grainers, it's an intense little...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Accurate Molds 35-135D is their Ranch Dog clone, and they can no doubt increase the diameter for you. The 140T and 147A would get you closer to the classic 38S&W weights, though I'm not sure how...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
Personally, I regard tumble lubing as one of the great time saving boons to mankind, right up there with dishwashers and laundry machines. Been...
In all of this I do wish that Springfield would call their Mil-Spec (which is a very nice gun) something other than "Mil-Spec", because with blocky 3-dot sights, angled slide serrations, a lowered...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Several appearance options for the Ruger PC9: the exposed barrel version that kinda looks like a 10/22; the tubular handguard version with the "sporting" stock that kinda looks like a...
Well. . .crap. The "Age Virus" is indeed a nasty one. My grandparents lived in one of those Chicago area homes built to put half the basement underground and the first floor about eight feet above...
Mec Gar manufactures the OEM factory magazines for A LOT of handguns. I would start by studying their options.
Your friend may have to modify a Beretta pattern mag to fit the Taurus magazine...
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 |