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Type: Posts; User: Rapier
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Ain't going to be fooled again.
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
When you travel around the country as a military brat, you find some great food from odd sources. A friend living in NW FL from Kansas City would have taco parties at his house. His father was a...
Forum: Our Town
This is the reason you ask the service providers where you live.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I use the 200 grain RCBS FP with about 20 grains of H-110/296 or 4227 with small rifle primers. Have both moulds, the plain base and the gas check versions. The plain base mould was discontinued by...
Forum: Our Town
DE works because it is talcum powder fine and made up of sharp edged crystals, like broken glass, the crystals get into eco-skeleton joints of insects and cuts their innards to shreads as they move....
Forum: Our Town
Suggest that you Do not ask insurance buyers for data, they know no more than you do, ask the folks that actually get paid, who it is that pays them the best and is easiest and fairest to deal with...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Sounds like a gun store "counter" story you can hear some strange and outrageous stuff in a LGS.
Forum: Our Town
Welcome back to the cast house from NW FL.[smilie=s:
Forum: Gas Checks
If you powder coat then bake nose down in a hardware cloth 1" deep upside down box, holding the bullet in the holes, base up, you do not need a gas check up to 2,700 fps. Repeat, You do not need a...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
If you want to reform brass, especially bottle neck cases, you need to start with quality brass and use quality dies, plus you always clean, anneal and size the brass before you even think about...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Shoot Sporting Clays a couple times a week, mostly sub gauge, 20,28, 410, Quail and doves in FL, AL, TX, OK, SD , ND, Argentina a dozen times, Chile, Paraguay, 10 day trips, South Africa pigeon...
Forum: Our Town
When I moved back to FL in 71, long boring story of a military brat, I got a job as a foreman/estimator for a renovation/repair contractor.
A fixer upper structure especially a house is like an...
Forum: AirGuns
Simple DIY carpenter bee trap. If you drill an 1/8" hole through the side edge of the bottom plate a #8 finish nail will hang the plastic water bottle by the threads. Just hang the traps by...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Yep, did the first 120 grit rough sanding, so now would be a good place to try the stain and/or ink, if no joy, it can be cut off with the 120 pretty quick. When doing such, a shade darker than you...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
What I do is what I learned the hard way, to do, prepare every component, every time, for every reloading session, exactly the same.
When you run low on ammo and need more ammo, you are going to...
Forum: Our Town
Snow is a four letter word. Military family, move around, Dad was in USAF Intelligence. In 62 we arrived in NH. Went to HS in NH, enlisted to go through SF Selection, was a mountain climber, cliffs,...
Forum: Our Town
The Great Blue Herons around here do a fair job of keeping the snapping turtle population down to a medium roar in our two ponds. Every once in a while I catch a big one that got through the Heron...
Forum: Our Chapel
There but for fortune. Usually it is a thin edge of divine intervention. At times you get a very distinct feeling that, as the events start to stack up, there is an unfulfilled purpose to your life,...
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Wharf Rats in the tropics get very big, large enough that the cats will not take them on. I used to shoot them on the ranch, in the everglades, durng the 50s with 22 shorts out of a Rem 510 with a...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Sounds like buying the PP 6.5 Jap brass would be a very good place to start. Wish it was around in 62 when I started fooling with Japanese surplus rifles and making ammo for them. My experience with...
Forum: Our Chapel
Prayers sent for the best outcome for Brian's retina repair.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
The white spacers and line were not to be on that stock. Was ordered without. I will just fix that myself. Not major surgery with a power miter box. I have Packmeyer grind to fit, black pads and a...
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 |