I wince sometimes looking at the plastic stocks but I'll say this for them-I don't worry about rain, briars, being tripped by one of the various vines indigenous to the SE while trying to sneak in to...
Type: Posts; User: Capt. Methane
Forum: Leverguns
I wince sometimes looking at the plastic stocks but I'll say this for them-I don't worry about rain, briars, being tripped by one of the various vines indigenous to the SE while trying to sneak in to...
Forum: Leverguns
With the Maximum compressed loads of IMR 4895 and that 405 gas checked boolit the Henry will rattle your cage-especially from a bench. I've taken to shooting it from crossed sticks and that is much...
Forum: Leverguns
Matt’s Bullets 405RFN GC ahead of 44.5gr IMR 4895. Lots of authority but not brutal offhand or standing shooting from sticks. The old buffalo cartridge will punish you from the bench because it’s...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
The reformed .43 Spanish brass was in stock and I snagged a bag of it from BA and it is indeed formed from .50-100 Starline brass. There are no marks that look like the brass was cut down anywhere...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Well, Buffalo Arms finally came through-first . 43 Spanish brass became available and then loaded ammo so now I have 40 cases and 20 loaded BP rounds and that has confirmed my suspicions-the formed...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
You have a bit of a point but I stumbled across something in my musings...
The .50 Alaskan is based on the .348 Winchester case, is available and far less expensive than the .348 so how much...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I developed an interest in an old rolling block that is in the family and was purchased no-one remembers when but it cleaned up nicely, has a good bore and I believe it's in .43 Spanish.
There is...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I've never shot black powder cartridges and sadly I haven't been competitive as an adult but I cherish the memories of shooting spit patch and round ball with a group in Western Washington.
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Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
That is a good idea-it occurred to me that perhaps I should ask if anyone has a dummy round I could borrow for a bit to see if it chambers?
Depending on what you read and where, the 44-77 may well...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Very good, thanks, that looks like a lot of fun.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
That is in nice shape! I've been doing a bunch of research on the #1's (primarily the military version) as part of a project and that looks pretty stubby-how long is the barrel?
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Ah, no one took a swing at the mystery curveball though I don't blame anyone-the hoard of 11ish mm/43-45 caliber cartridges that the RB was chambered in over it's 50 plus year production run...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I'm glad that you had good fortune figuring out what you RB is...mine has been driving me nuts trying to cipher what it is!
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Well, I'm home, have gotten a good cerrosafe casting on the second try and there's one thing I'm sure of...
It's not 11mm Gras! The chamber casting won't go back into the chamber as it is and the...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Outstanding, thank you!
Mr Wasserburger, you obviously understand those two rifles very, very well...
I've got some Federal match primers but I'm saving them for the 6.5 CM which really likes...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Okay, can't help it and I needed a laugh at this point...
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Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Oh good-I have some LRP's...not as many as I used to think I should have but enough to spare some for a relatively low round count project like this!
I'm not a big fan of wiki but this has been...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Good info everyone, thanks-
I'd love to do pics of markings but now I'm on the road as it were through the 16th and the rifle is having it's chamber cast by the GS at the LGS. I didn't know how...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
It is some kind of bottle neck round and it is at the LGS having the chamber cast, I've been leaning toward thinking it's a .44-77. With the measurements I have taken it seems about right until I...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I was never quite sure that the PRC made thermometer I'd ordered was being accurate or had repeatable accuracy-there were results that the molds were showing that indicated that the temperature shown...
Forum: Cast Boolits
This is something that has come up for me recently in .41 Mag. How much is too much oversize? The reason I ask is that the cylinder throats in my S&W are right at .410, as near as I can tell with...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
I remember my mom planting cabbage in February and starting the curing early in July. I'd have to change the cloth cover on the top of the two crock pots and pick out anything that looked like it...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
They were acting like cats-ambush predators. Knowing that they were cornered they waited till the last moment they could assure a surprise shot with the best chance of a kill and took it.
Can it...
Forum: Castpic of the Month
Oh, now I'm going to have to find my round ball mold, cast some bullets and shoot my own Patriot!
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 |