I am patiently waiting for Tombstone grips to finish the change of ownership. They had a pair of Herter's powermag grips on sale before the original owner stopped his production. I am still kicking...
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I am patiently waiting for Tombstone grips to finish the change of ownership. They had a pair of Herter's powermag grips on sale before the original owner stopped his production. I am still kicking...
I have two Powermags in .357 and two in .401. One of the .401 revolvers also has a .38-40 interchangeable cylinder.
I haven't done much with the .401 revolvers except to say I was totally surprised...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Is is Paul Harvey who is narrating this film? It sure sounds like him.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Also, I am firmly in the camp of counting the first shot being the most important one, not the 16th shot.
Forum: Cast Boolits
As a historical side note about efforts to make a zippier .45 cartridge, I bring you the .45 Remington-Thompson: A 250 grain bullet at 1,450 fps, designed for the Thompson submachine gun in order to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
.38 Special is overkill for those who know what they are doing. :-D
This woman (young girl at the time) used a single shot .22 and .22 long ammunition to get her bearskin rug from the world...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Are you sure that your e-mails got there in the first place? There are a lot of spam blockers and barracuda type email filters between us here in the U.S. and Slovenia.
I work in I.T. for a...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
The Linotype Parts Company was branded as "Star Parts Inc."
https://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/compline/literature/star/index.html
My guess is that you have an ingot of...
Forum: All about knives
I just watched a video featuring the man who formulated Magnacut steel. Although he is very proud of it, he says blade geometry trumps everything in making a knife blade. Of second importance is...
Forum: Our Town
I think I would turn that "riding arena that my wife hasn't used in years" into something more productive. I never have enough space for garden and trees.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I think I am to the point that I have more than enough lead to cast boolits, jig heads, and sinkers for family and friends for the rest of my life. I still do not let any cheap / free lead go past...
Forum: Fishing Spots
My uncle kept a log of his fishing trips to the local Loup River in Nebraska. One year, he caught slightly over 1,000 catfish using shrimp as bait and a 1/0 Tru Turn Brute hook with a 5/8 oz....
Forum: Fishing Spots
I also cast jig heads and sinkers. I have found out that casting lead into sinkers instead of ingots raises the price of it from $1.25 lb. to $2.00-$2.50 lb. when I put them up for sale on Facebook...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I agree with Dave and 405; 900 degrees is too hot. If one is melting wheel weight or mixed scrap, that would easily melt any zinc in the mix and that would get messy.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Lead tipped insulator pins from the local electric company.316101
Then, when I get 600 lbs. of pins stacked up after melting the lead threads off of them, I make a trip to the scrap yard and sell...
Forum: Factory Rifles
One can also turn that around. If one had a .30 carbine, why would they need a 7.62x39 or the pistol calibers?
Forum: Factory Rifles
What advantage do you hope to gain from using a 120 grain bullet over a heavier one?
Forum: Factory Rifles
...and the 7.62x39mm tops them, the .30 Remington AR tops that, and we end up at the .308 Winchester. Where does one want to draw the line?
Forum: Shot Guns
If this statement was repeated 1,000 times more than it is, it still wouldn't be enough.
Forum: Shot Guns
If somebody needs more than two, then something is not right.
Forum: Shot Guns
How many rounds total do you want in your shotgun? Because the Kel-Tec KSG holds 15 rounds total and a Mossberg 940 Pro will have a ten shot capacity.
Forum: Shot Guns
With the Browning BPS/Ithaca M37/Remington 17 design, one has a single big hole in the receiver to collect mud, dust, dirt and sand rather than two. Hunt for a season or thirty on a sandbar in the...
Forum: Shot Guns
That is MSRP...take $200 off of that.
Do those Ithacas look "basic" too you, like an 870 Express or a Mossberg 500?
Also, what is wrong with the safety? Admittedly, I much prefer a top tang...
Forum: Shot Guns
I would rate the new Ithaca pumps as the best ever made with that name. They manufacture the Inland Mfg. Ithaca trench gun as well as a lot of mouth watering M37 models, like a 28 gauge.
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 |