I toast your good health sir.
Type: Posts; User: ogre
Forum: Single Shot Guns
If I had the scratch I would go for a .318 Westley Richards.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I went this route as my eyes aged, for the worse, over the years. My rear sight is now closer to the muzzle than my front sight.
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Lamb, or mutton if you must, tallow + beeswax.
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These guys CLAIM to have it in stock. Who knows? https://www.raniersec.com/shop/starline-brass-45-90-winchester-brass-50-per-bag/
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I feel your pain. Congratulations on your fine rifle.
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Ummmm.....Dixie Gun Works has Bertram Brass in .45 Basic (3 1/4') IN STOCK as I write this. By them and trim them.
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I believe you, I just thought that you were being witty over a Jack Rabbit.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbjiKIKzY3c
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https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?257330-Jonathan-Browning-Mountain-rifle
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The Gun Works makes them in English or Hawken style: https://www.thegunworks.com/custprodgun.cfm?ProductID=4532&do=detail&Cat2Option=yes
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https://thecmp.org/wood-cleaning-article/
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Marty's Arms will sell you a .550 RB mold if that is what you want. I own one of their molds to make #2 buckshot and am very happy with it.
https://www.martysarms.com
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I suppose that it has some useful information. I nearly stopped reading it when the writer declared, in the first paragraph no less, that the letter 'G' stood for "granules." If the writer doesn't...
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This is a long read but should answer your questions: https://thecmp.org/wood-cleaning-article/
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I am with Mr_Sheesh on this one. I feel that soft lead would be just the ticket for your Diablo. If your wheel weights are NOT the soft stick-on kind then they might be a little too hard and...
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Perhaps a professional wrestler's website would be of help.
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I use it for bullet alloy or rather I did. I have enough hard and soft lead to last my wife and me until the end of our days. The pewter that I find now I cast into ingots for my son to use when I...
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I have been very lucky on my pewter scores as of late. I notice that some people are marking as "pewter" strange metals that are mostly made of aluminum. I don't know whether these are attempted...
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http://www.therifleshoppe.com/catalog_pages/wheellocks/wheellocks.htm
These guys will sell you an assembled lock, in various styles, for about 700 clams or so. They will also sell complete...
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The Skychief load has always worked great for me. I use an unchoked barrel and the shot pattern really tightened up when I used his method of loading.
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If you reread yeahbub's excellent post you will see that the wet patch is on the loading rod when seating the ball. In other words the wet patch does not contact the powder.
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Apparently others are assuming that you will be only shooting a round ball. Is this true or will you be also be shooting conicals? What about paper cartridges: will you make those up?
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A lot of people wrongly subscribe to that notion. This piece of misinformation was printed in a magazine in 1960 something and refuses to die. The shot you are describing is Rupert shot or...
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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 |