I've got the Teslong fixed rod with side mirrors and have used same on a number of my rifles, its works great and in my mind its in the nice to have basket but not essential, for the price if wanted...
Type: Posts; User: Leadmad
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I've got the Teslong fixed rod with side mirrors and have used same on a number of my rifles, its works great and in my mind its in the nice to have basket but not essential, for the price if wanted...
Brace yourself to hear from guys who are so frugal that they claim to crawl around under railroad boxcars at night, collecting gobs of axle grease, which they then strain through bandanas they have...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Several years back I cut one end out of two 55 gallon steel oil drums and tacked welded the two open ends together, then stood them up and added a flue with a 12" pipe approx. 6' high, cut an opening...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
No experience with the 6.5 Carcano at all but my Mosin has a very rough bore and worn rifling, it would shoot jacketed nowhere near accurately, it slugged at 311 and I now shoot 314 sized Powder...
I've got several suppressors on a variety of calibers a couple are sealed and have been in use for many years and with the exception of the 223 the 30 cals have shot a bunch of cast and jacketed with...
Forum: Leverguns
If its in the lifter and its going up and down simply remove the magazine tube end cap,mag tube spring and follower and point to rifle to the ground and the cartridge will drop out the bottom of the...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
https://lousgunwork.com/M-Neck-Expander-Powder-Dies.html
Im using these in my square deal B , both 357 and 45 auto
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
Classic Cast 4 hole turret the first press I bought, have another 3 press`s now but use the classic cast almost every day for a variety of cal`s and purposes. not sure how much extra use that 5th...
Well I've tried the 800 x in one of my Military rifles an Enfield #4 Mk2 .303 with my go to bullet for that Rifle lyman 314299 powder coated and sized .314 (205 grns), 3 different loads so far...
Hello All,
Recently picked up a couple pounds of 800 x and an unopened 4 lb container of Longshot powder, For the longest time Ive been using Ed Harris "the load" in my milsurp rifles...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I`m having or had similar problems with sticking cases in the expander funnel I bought from Lou`s gunwork's it works like the M style Die and a nice step of .1 of an inch to seat the projectile in, I...
Dishwasher Powder 1/4 teaspoon, dishwash liquid a good squirt and a half teaspoon of citric acid and no pins for all but the dirtiest brass, 45 mins and its sparkling the dishwasher powder is the...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Exactly what I do now, but use dishwasher powder a small amount only and superb results
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I've been using a Frankford Arsenal wet tumbler for 6-8 years now and for me is the best thing ever for cleaning brass, I stopped using pins nearly 2 years ago and apart from a light carbon inside...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Same here have used the 314299 in a variety of .30 calibres and its a great projectile 21-25 grains of 2207 / 4198 with a light filler and 1650 to 1920 fps
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
My Wifes K-31 shoots well with the Lee C312-155-2r mould, drops about 161 grains and sized to .309
Cheers
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I use the bulge buster for my 1911 in 45 acp, I size first them bulge bust them and pretty happy with it, I have on occasion run loaded ammo thru it but only the odd one that would pass the chamber...
Forum: Casting Equipment
+ 1 for Accurate Moulds, I bought 2 x 4 cavity moulds approx 4 1/2 years back both in ductile iron and both in 359 cal, have cast all up 90 k with them and apart from some light polishing spots they...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
This question does come up every now and again, I shoot my Mosin Nagant dated to 1939 and it does have a rough bore its full length, but the rifling is still strong so I shoot ed Harris 13 grains...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
This is exactly what I did, and yes got up to 13 grains of ADI AS30 (Clays Equvilent) with no problems at all also used Winchester AA lite equally as good in my #4 and a variety of other elderly...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Scotty, 16 grains 4198 will be really light in 303 Brit and may not burn all that well with that light a load, I shoot 21 grains ADI 2207 (4198 equivalent) under a 314299 205 grain for around 1600fps...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Yes, Lyman 314299 Powder coated and sized .309, 23 grains of ADI 2207 + .75 grain of polyester wadding shoots a treat
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Hi there uscra112,
I too use Polyester filler on pretty much all of my cast lead bottle neck loads and have not seen any hard deposits yet in the barrel or chamber but on...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
30calflash is onto it, I also use the same recipes in my 30 cal rifles
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Don`t sweat the drizzling damp weather, I almost always cast and coat on crappy winter days when cant get outside in the weather or simply dont want too, when its like that the humidity will be up...
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