Yup, your system is not getting it. A good system to clean is wet tumbling with either ceramic or SS pins. For me the ceramic media is the easiest to separate from the brass.
The brass comes out...
Type: Posts; User: Chill Wills
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Yup, your system is not getting it. A good system to clean is wet tumbling with either ceramic or SS pins. For me the ceramic media is the easiest to separate from the brass.
The brass comes out...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
If you live in AZ you have no issues with a time race to clean the cases, or the rifle for that mater. The south west is dry and under the threshold for problems. Contrast that to much of the country...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Correct.
That is, when I saw the wiping rod, it is a No.5
Nice rifle.
Next person's turn.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
In that caliber, I assume that Ballard is a number 5. At first I was hoping it was a Far West.
Very nice rifle. I hope it shoots well!
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
The evidence is mounting. I have been a competitor in the BPCR game for 30 years. In all the load development of all the lots of powder and many different rifles, have come to think that the much...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
IS there such a thing as "salted Crisco"? Maybe is....
I have seen Butter flavored Crisco. I bet that has salt.
I would avoid the buttered version unless you want your lube to do double duty and...
We are thinking about the same. I have a few SWC bullets in the 250 - 265 grain range and I am sorting through what bullet and which powder is best. I will be very happy to settle on an accurate load...
Forum: Casting Equipment
JB Weld, Regular 2-part epoxy and Gorilla Glue has worked for me. I have done a lot of them over the years. I just put a healthy amount in the repair and stand them upright for 24 hours. Good to go!
So, this brings me to a question I have been wrestling with two of the three 44 Specials I wish to carry in the woods, not so much on the city streets, where I do not live. The difference being, for...
Thanks for posting that link. Good read and I would print it off if I could. I did take note of the loads I was interested in. I have taken a serous interest in my 44's for carry this last winter and...
My Thumbler Tumbler is going on 50 years old. Got it used in the 1980's.
In the early days we used Walnut and red jeweler's rouge - not the best but got the job done.
Wet cleaning is better. all...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Maybe splitting hairs here, you might consider one part WW with two parts pure Pb and add 2% tin to make the bullet both soft and hold any mushroom intact. The outcome may be the same as your alloy 9...
Forum: Cast Boolits
It appears that with in the above hardness range, reasonable cartridge neck sizes get pushed out (expanded) by the bullet ending up with the same hold on the bullet.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I posted this about a month ago...
I did an experiment making one expander and turning it down 0.001" smaller each time and pulling the bullets to measure.
This is a small sample and may not...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I did something like this too and reported here
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?466661-Factory-die-set-expanders
Check out my VS at RIX for more info on expanders.
Forum: Rimfire Area
Thanks for the reply.
So there is no real red light indicator for you either. Just watching and some intuition.
I shoot a match called 22 BPCR, (silhouette) targets at 50, 100, 150 and 200...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
That was a good old film. I think I saw sometime in the dim past.
In the 1980's I owned a house in Leadville, CO. Leadville, a mining town was primary about Silver mines. We never hear much...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Did the rifle barrel start "talkin" to you during a match and reflect in your score?
Or did you somehow deal with it ahead of time and have some "heads up" so accuracy did not drop off during a...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I wasn't daring enough to have the bottleneck chamber. I have two rifles chambered for the Sharps Straight.
Not helpful, I know.
Forum: Rimfire Area
Can you spell out the acronym RFB please. I assume RF is rim fire but not clicking on the B.
Forum: Cast Boolits
This is been in interest of mine for decades. This is what I think I know about Pb - Sn alloys and time.
Look to the bottom sited quote below.
I have other data including samples I have tested...
Thanks for the answer.
Some irony, ...when I first got my Ruger 77-22 Hornet sometime in the early 1990's maybe, I had a house in Leadville, CO and in the Coast to Coast hardware store, they had...
Please remind me what the difference is between Remington 6-1/2 and Rem 7-1/2 primers.
Forum: Cast Boolits
The 457 191 molds I have are regular base and not beveled. One each single cavity and one 4-cavity. I think I have seen a beveled version. I don't know how the two 457 191's are marked.
Tho the...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Yes. The steel in those early days could barely be called steel. In fact, we read various batches weren't even close to being the same and full of inclusions. I was a little boy at the time so I...
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 |