You perfect the process to make those extractors by machine tools and you may have a market in them alone! I broke my Destroyer Carbine's extractor (I think it was cracked when I bought it) back in...
Type: Posts; User: bruce drake
Forum: Special Projects
You perfect the process to make those extractors by machine tools and you may have a market in them alone! I broke my Destroyer Carbine's extractor (I think it was cracked when I bought it) back in...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
The rimless 7.7x58 was loaded to .303 British pressure levels but you are right that it's not a rimless 303Brit due to its bigger diameter and longer length of the cartridge case. I use 303 Brit...
Forum: Military Rifles
Its a good barrel but Starline wants too much for their brass now a days.
Forum: Military Rifles
hmmm.. I have a Trapdoor in 50-70. I wonder if it could be relined to 45-70 easier than a 45-70 barrel.
[QUOTE=Texas by God;5573704]Is the 9x21 the same as the 9mm Ultra?
Sorry. No.
That's a German-made hot .380 ACP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9%C3%9718mm_Ultra
A company called Robertsons once offered 9x19 barrels for Star Super pistols (in the 90s and before I own a Star Super myself) but I haven't seen any new or used barrels on Ebay or Gunbroker for a...
Forum: Leverguns
Order in a LEE 175gr RN .323/8mm bullet mold. they'll be perfect for the rifle and the manuals have loads for that weight already. I use it for my 50's era Win94 in 32 Win Spl and it gives me good...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I think this mold will be a picky mold for proper velocity. see my text below.
Quick update with a shot report. I didn't have any empty 6.5 Grendel Brass available for reloading but I did have a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I was thinking the same for my own Grendel.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
PC, gas check and size. Sometimes I even PC again if I want to amp up the loads near 2000+ fps.
Bruce
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hornady Gas check for .32 caliber bullets, poly coat and I keep them at around 1700fps for my 8x57 and 8mm-06 rifles.
edit. I've also shot the same bullet to 1700fps with Lee ALOX tumble lube and...
Forum: Factory Rifles
A new bolt head for the bolt carrier group (30 carbine is smaller diameter than a .223Rem case .360" vs. .378")) along with a new 30 caliber barrel to be chambered and a gas port drilled at the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
https://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/item/000068mmkar/8mm-karabiner-215-grain-double-cavity-reproduction-mold
I recommend this mold. My alloy has it drop at about 220gr but it should be perfect...
Forum: Military Rifles
To make a replica .276 Pederson cartridge, you'd basically have to take a 220 Swift, 6.5 Arisaka or 35 Remington case and reneck it to .270" as they don't commercially make the cartridge anymore. Not...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Dean Grennell was a gun writer in the 80's and 90's and he wrote several articles about those "pointy bullet molds" in his books. I think they do a great job punching paper as I own several Lyman...
Forum: Casting Equipment
LEE has reopened some of their custom shop operations.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
With my S-marked 1888/05 Commission Rifle I use 32 Winchester Special load data and Lee's 175gr 8mm Roundnose bullet and as ak_milsurp said, they love that bullet because their .323 throats and .318...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
My gunclub rebermed the rifle and pistol ranges last spring so my handy source of lead has been buried under a lot of fill so I broke down and bought some lead over Ebay but I have bought from...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I don't own one but I believe the barrels are 9mm in diameter so I'd look at a polycoated 358311 at 160gr for a range bullet. I'll defer to others for a heavy 9mm bullet over 147gr. but a 147gr HP...
Forum: 3D PRINTED RELATED ITEMS
Start with PETG filament. Its shrinkage rate is a lot less than PLA and ABS and you'll have a lot more success from the start.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Very nice. I'd start with calling it an 8mm-06 (8x63) on steroids as well.
Forum: Military Rifles
If its a T38, then their 6.5x50 chambered barrels were Metford-style rifled so they'll appear to have worn edges on their lands and grooves when it reality it was early polygonal rifling long before...
Forum: Leverguns
I'd recommend you buy that "shot-out" 32 Win Spl and then load it with 8mm bullets sized at .324 or .325". You'd be surprised how accurate it is when the bore has a bullet that matches it. :) And...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I would recommend you buy a newer manual 44Mag#1. 30 year old loading manuals don't stay true to modern powders if they've changed over the decades....
Forum: Cast Boolits
Odds are its the converted brass if the majority of your reloads functioned at those bullet diameters and seating depths. It makes a for a fun and easy load for 1-8" twist 300BLK rifles once you get...
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 |