Longer shot column= blown patterns. Same mistake as the 3" 20 Gauge. If you want more payload, go up a gauge.
Type: Posts; User: Jeff Michel
Longer shot column= blown patterns. Same mistake as the 3" 20 Gauge. If you want more payload, go up a gauge.
On the Alliant web sight. I'd back it off a bit since your using a heavier bullet....
Your rubber liner needed replaced, you should be good for another 40 years.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I was a fan of Brown and Sharpe until I purchased my last dial caliper from them.......Made in Brazil. Rack was all burred up, took it apart, stoned all the offending surfaces, used it for a month,...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Bought a couple off of Arsenal, the last one cast under sized by.002. After several attempts, I gave up contacting him. Never returned a email. Rumor has it my situation is not unusual with regard to...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Keep an eye on the stock at the lock plate bolt/escutcheon area. I've had a number of Senecas and Cherokee's over the years and practically every example regardless of caliber cracked in that part of...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I wouldn't want to ruin your experiment, but here's a couple suggestions.
1) Use a dedicated vessel to melt your alloy. Once you get zinc on the interior surfaces of your furnace, you will...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Have tried it and it's a complete waste of time.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I use a 330 grain paper patched or a RCBS 300 CSA in a grease grooved bullet. With Black, 1.5 F has had the best showing. Smokeless IMR4198. FWIW, twist is 1-16, Green Mountain.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Were me, I'd take it to a scrap yard and trade it for either wheel weights or pure lead scrap (iron soil pipe salvage). The scrapers don't test it and don't care if it's lead/zinc mixed. I've fallen...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Don't do it, you will never get your alloy "right" sulfur can get a majority of zinc out but it's far better not to get it in your pot in the first place. Test your metal, if you can't or are...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Clean thoroughly, lube it up and use it. Decent gun for it's time, just supplanted by improved models. I like 1148's and if they get dirty, they don't always lock back.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Congratulations on the Hepburn, great rifles in a great caliber. But that Sharp's isn't on the short end of the stick either.
Great shotgun powder. I wish the mutton heads still made it.
Forum: Leverguns
I've always stuck with the suggested OAL in the Lyman handbooks, they feed and fit in both my 1873 clone and 1873 "P" model Colt.
Forum: Leverguns
Unless your stuck on an original, Cimarron imports an 1873 made by Uberti. I've had one for a number of years and it's amazingly accurate. Not picky as to bullets, just be sure to crimp firmly.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I just back the sizing die back out a half a turn and there ya go, neck only sized.[/QUOTE]
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You can't suggest not to buy brass and encouraging hoarding in the same breath. I think the number of people reselling brass is relatively small considering the current market and the reloaders I...
Forum: Leverguns
That's load works fine in mine, kills deer out to a hundred yards with broadside pass through, so steel plates shouldn't require a second shot FWIW Uberti/Pedersoli proofs all of their rifles to...
Forum: Military Rifles
I use to work with a man that served in the Swiss army, they gave him the K31 rifle he was issued when he was discharged. Since I had one, I made the remark that I thought they shot a bit high at the...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Hard to say how many 14 1/2's were made, the serial numbers were lumped in with the model 14's. Couldn't of been many, I have one in 38-40 but the 44-40 has proved elusive. I think your correct with...
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