Playing with it in Quickload, 40 grains at 1050 fps falls quite a bit short. Only 100 ft-lbs.
50 grains at 1039 yields 120 ft-lbs. (126 joules), at about 11,000 psi (814 bar), which is perfectly...
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Forum: Rimfire Area
Playing with it in Quickload, 40 grains at 1050 fps falls quite a bit short. Only 100 ft-lbs.
50 grains at 1039 yields 120 ft-lbs. (126 joules), at about 11,000 psi (814 bar), which is perfectly...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I've made a bullet-seating / crimping tool for .32 Long Colt, which also uses a heeled bullet. Uses a spring-loaded top punch to hold the bullet firmly in place as case is fed into the die. It...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Mine has never leaked. What am I doing wrong?
Forum: Reloading Equipment
AMEN! But don't pick even numbers. Chose .2465 and .5012 for example.
A couple of the ASSRA benchrest guys have built .25-20 WCF rifles for 120 grain bullets, but they used 10" twist barrels to do it.
Forum: Cast Boolits
In that set you will have weights as small as 10 milligrams, which is 0.154 grain
From there you can make even smaller ones from bits of fine copper wire. Fussy work, but it can be done.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Meaning that you aren't confident that it'a accurate? Only way to know is to test it with known weights. This set is similar to what I have.
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Forum: Special Projects
Air pads are great until one passes over a crack in the concrete. Ask me how I know!
That puller looks a bit large for watch repair work, but just about right for pulling wheels off axles of HO scale model trains. A hobby I haven't pursued since childhood, but back then I was in it...
Forum: Special Projects
Yah, I moved all my heavy stuff the Egyptian way . . . half a dozen 3 foot lengths of pipe and a Johnson bar. Cribbing as necessary to get over a step.
I was in the machine tool business for...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Disappointing to find that from Norma, but nothing's impossible.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Yes.
Only drawback is that their database of powders doesn't include some of the most recent ones, and it does not cover surplus powders. You can create your own cartridge case and bullet data,...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
BTW a year or two ago I bought a new Fowler mike, the kind with the mechanical digital readout. Fowler used to be mostly Swiss, but this one came from China. In all fairness, it is well made, can't...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Right. I went to buy some Tap Magic a few months ago, and found that the name has been applied to a "green" formulation because of EPA and/or OSHA. You CAN still get the original formula if you...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Ditto foundries...thanks to over-regulation by the EPA. Don't get me started.............
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Yup. No fancy online ordering software. Email works. He custom casts so I can specify alloy and size, (or as-cast and unlubed as in my last order.)
Forum: Single Shot Guns
John, did I ever send you the draft article I wrote up based on Chuck Dietz's computer generated force-resolution diagrams? If not, I will. It explains a lot.
Phil
BTW at 16000 psi, the...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
An interesting datum, inasmuch as the breech thrust at 13kpsi would have been some 300 lbf greater than the .22 Hornets, which did shoot loose.
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Added: Looking at some recently...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Have I ask you yet for the serial number so I can add it to my database? Then I can at least approximate its' date of manufacture.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Good for you! I've never fired mine, to my everlasting shame. It also has a mint bore, but somebody sanded the heck out of the wood, so it's not the collector gun it should be.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I kinda get the impression that he's not going to be shooting benchrest with it.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
The gun is marked just .25-20 because Stevens never sold one for the WCF round, with good reason. (See below). The Stevens .25-20 predates the WCF version by several years, and even after the WCF...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Going way, way back to when I was developing competition loads for .38 Spl I realized right away that the one-size-fits-all Lyman M die was a serious liability. Back then there was no NOE, so I...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
It's fairly easy to make inserts for a Lyman tong tool that will do the neck sizing, expanding and seating. Only die you'd have to buy would be the FL sizer.
Alternatively the inserts can 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 |