Story...... Back when the economy fell into the hole , 2006/7, I went to Michigan Works to get a different job and the aptitude test showed I was likely a good candidate to be trained for several...
Type: Posts; User: frkelly74
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Story...... Back when the economy fell into the hole , 2006/7, I went to Michigan Works to get a different job and the aptitude test showed I was likely a good candidate to be trained for several...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Don't put it in your suitcase and forget it's there. Airports are not friendly places.
Forum: Casting Equipment
I would love to mine that berm after the smoke cleared.
Forum: AirGuns
I was always negatively impressed with the people going into the swamps after the Pythons without a shotgun. I could not understand live capture of those monsters. I would not go unarmed, nope, not...
Forum: Our Town
Over in Midland my daughters mother in law needed some work done, so I got volunteered. Her condo was by a wetland and there were resident turkeys that would challenge you if you tried to go through...
Quite a bit of my 8mm brass says 270 Win on the headstamp. I didn't have a 270. Point is it's easy to come up with brass from found brass in several calibers If brass is rare in your area. It is an...
Forum: Our Town
Interesting, I am on a similar journey. I had the prostatectomy last November and it was not quite soon enough as it was just breaking out. I am waiting to see if/ when the PSA starts to climb again....
Forum: Cast Boolits
When we moved to Florida about 9 years ago I sold off my lead that I had lovingly rendered out into ingots and took the money with us with the intention of replacing my lead with the $900 bucks. Ha!...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have had , on the bench, for maybe three years a 100 round loading block mostly full of empty brass that I had formed for my 6.5 Roberts, Arisaka. And some how there was also 6.5X55 Swede in there...
I was thinking the opposite.......At a glance, It looks to me like the 74 dies may not contact and size the 72 cases all the way. Possibly, if all you need is neck sizing and bullet seating it may...
Forum: Cast Boolits
My blackout carbine likes the 155 gr Lee boolits. Yours???? I am using WC820 powder which is between AA#9 and H110 burn rate and powder coating the boolits and they have gas checks on them. I have...
Forum: Our Town
Michigan, no reminder for permits to carry or drivers license. Permit cost is $125 to renew and a 3% upcharge to use a credit card. I renewed in person at the court house, They have an airport like...
Forum: Cast Boolits
how many zinkers can you get away with putting into your 20# pot before you get oatmeal? I have three or four I want to get rid of and wonder about just slipping them in to see what happens. Will an...
Well I was having some fun shooting that 230 gr 8mm Lee boolits over about 11 grains of Herco at 100 yds. I was hitting a chicken target on an 8X11 piece of notebook paper. My 8mm are both old model...
Forum: Our Town
a smooth deal for some beautiful molds but his inbox is full.
Forum: In Remembrance
Very nice write up, Cancer is a curse, He is beyond that now and it can hurt him no more. Sorry you lost a great friend.
Forum: Our Town
The soo locks are interesting. some huge ore boars pass through there. Lake of the clouds state park is great at the Minnesota end. We stayed in one of the cablns right on Lake Superior and saw the...
Forum: AirGuns
I thought I was something when I could hit a pie plate my dad threw up in the air when I was 8. I still have the bb gun and it still works, but it does not fit me like when I was 8.
Forum: Shot Guns
Now I am thinking of reaming out my cylinder shaped mold to a diameter that fits loosely into a plastic wad to make cylinders or disks to stack. I have made one that casts cylindrical pellets that I...
I was wondering if anyone else had one of these guns. Mine is a gun I wanted to love but have found it to be overly complicated with a hammer and a decock safety which you can't carry cocked and...
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 |