People make this waaaayyyy too hard, especially in revolvers.
Buy a good plain base mold.
Run your melt hot enough to fill out the mold. (I like frosted boolits)
Tumble coat them and bake them....
Type: Posts; User: charles1990
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
People make this waaaayyyy too hard, especially in revolvers.
Buy a good plain base mold.
Run your melt hot enough to fill out the mold. (I like frosted boolits)
Tumble coat them and bake them....
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
308 Norma mag is as dead as Hillary's presidential hopes.
A handi rifle in any magnum is a bad idea. It may come apart and it will beat the snot out of you.
If you want a 30 caliber magnum buy...
Forum: Special Projects
Outside of cheap steel case ammo, why would anyone want a 7.62x39 bolt gun ?
It can do nothing a 308 cannot do and a 308 can do a lot it cannot.
Forum: Factory Rifles
Yes but the USA, unlike Australia does not have a parlimentary system in which the mob rules.
You were disarmed by the mob of liberals, with our checks and balances it would be far more difficult...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
The new Lee measure that is designed to work on the press is (dare I say) more accurate than a Uniflow (I own 5), a lot lighter, has a small and large drum and is a LOT less expensive.
When you...
Ruger Security Six. Cheaper and more rugged than any S&W, Colt or Tarus.
OR this one: https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/411539731
Forum: Factory Rifles
It all sounds just great to me. Perhaps then, the last few real Americans left there will leave the loony Blue states/cities and the criminals will be free to rob/loot/rape/kill with no problems.
...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
ATF (not BATF) is Federal.
Where you reside may have different laws.
I had no problem ringing an 8" gong every shot at 600 yards with my 16" DPMS 308 using German Issue mil-spec ammo shooting off bags. Early in the AM, no wind, no mirage. Scope is a Nightforce...
Forum: Leverguns
It is a shame and hard to understand why Savage has no revived the 99. With investment casting and CNC machining all the negatives of complex hand operated machining from a great hunk of steel could...
Forum: Leverguns
1. 30-30 is not a common chambering.
2. The tang site is worth $100.
3. W/O knowing the model pricing is difficult.
4. If you are gonna mess with 99s AT ALL you must buy David Royal's book:
...
Forum: Helping Hands
On second thought, shtur, I can arrange you a 100% guaranteed kill Bighorn hunt for a mere $15,000 !
Let me know when you draw your area 7 WY tag.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Step 1. Clean it very well.
Step 2. Buy a fire lapping kit and do it.
Step 3. Shoot it with good ammo.
If a guy with young eyes can put 5 in 3" @100 you're good to go.
If not, you have to...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Hodgdon web site 45-70 trapdoor loads the most I'd ever want to shoot in an 8 pound No. 1.
300 gr lead
Hodgdon Varget .458" 2.465" 45.0 1,599 17,800 CUP 55.0 1,880 20,600 CUP
IMR IMR...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Sheesh, hope you are patient as I'll be in FL until June of 2018 !
Forum: Factory Rifles
The extraction problem is not an extraction problem, it is an ejection problem. 10 to 1 the ejection plunger is stuck or full of crud in the bolt. Soak the whole bolt in acetone for a few days, blow...
Forum: Helping Hands
Ah, no, where did 20 grand come from ? Wayyyyyyy less !
Trophymountainoutfitters.com if you wish to git edjicatied !
Forum: Helping Hands
Got everything from my spares, two members here and Ebay EXCEPT 223 dies.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Push your "delete" button.
It's a unique concern to YOU.
Forum: Our Town
The only winners in wind and solar are the people who make and sell it. W/O our taxes subsidizing it it would be as dead as the Dodo.
Tesla has NEVER made a dime. Wind farms slaughter birds....
Forum: Factory Rifles
The past has passed.
Better steel, 3 groove rifling, 5 R rifling and Nitriding have put to bed the barrel burner myth for any normal shooting.
My gunsmith has 22-250 and 220 Swift P-dog...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Privi brass is not too thin. Built to correct spec. Necked down 06 brass is overly thick. That's why Wilson/RCBS etc make neck reamers. By the time you buy a good 8X57 rifle (lots more than a new TC...
Forum: Helping Hands
He has 5 camps and 30 employees, been busy for 25 years. Now planning to dial back and spend more time having fun.
With today's factory ammo, no one HAS to reload to hunt big game. (unless you...
Forum: Helping Hands
get started in reloading.
Some I have filled from my excess, but still need:
shellholders: 223, 30-06 and 300 WinMag
dies: 223 and 30-06
A good press, prefer Forster or Redding T7
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 |