I oven heat my boolits in the lube cake in a toaster oven and, when cooled back to room temp, break the seal with a nose punch in the chuck of a drill press (not turning, of course). In my experience...
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Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I oven heat my boolits in the lube cake in a toaster oven and, when cooled back to room temp, break the seal with a nose punch in the chuck of a drill press (not turning, of course). In my experience...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
I use a fast and easy method not mentioned so far in this thread. I thread the wads on to a length of coat hanger wire that has been bent into the shape of a V, usually using several of these "V"s at...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Thanks Tom and Brent. I have the Ballistic software and it has a spot for BC calculation as is mentioned for the JBM web page. Was going to borrow a friend's chrony and use it at the safe end and...
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Am using the Buffalo Arms JIM459560M4, a "Money" bullet, not sure what real BC is, will get two chronos together and measure it for real in the spring. Probably won't get to shoot this alloy before...
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Used your formula, results perfect. Many thanks for posting.
Forum: Casting Equipment
I got a used Wells model H33 hotplate off eBay 4 or 5 years ago. It was working great with usually 30 or so pounds of lead in a melt, then recently no heat, even though the amber light indicated...
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I got pitting on the lens of my glasses from rupture of a Dominion case being shot in a 71/84 Mauser. An other Dominion cases from that period, .455 pistol cases, also seem brittle. I crushed mine.
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Freedom475, thanks so much for your input. I was at the Quigley last year and will be leaving to go again June 11 or 12. Last year I had a BPCR in 45-70 shooting a BACO 505 grain with my "radar" lube...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Thanks for all the advise. Gotta switch to store-bought BP lube to be ready for matches, will have to play with my home-mades later. I kind of hold on to the dream that the synthetic grease has some...
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Thanks BT, I'll do that. In the meantime I tried adding the Murphy's Oil soap mostly to get an idea of how it would react. It was not quite 2oz. to 15 oz of existing lube and results are shown below....
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I get a very nice soft lube star. Barrel is 30 inches with a gain twist. The patch has a lot of black gook which is either unburnt BP or burnt BP residue, or a combination of both. I'm using OE 1...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Accepting that a black powder lube formula shouldn't have mineral oil or petroleum products, how do synthetic products, like synthetic grease, figure into it? It doesn't come from the ground. I got a...
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Thanks. I just want to minimize chance of breakage. Murphy's Law was named after me, except Murphy's Law kicked in and they didn't get the name right.
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Thanks for the replies. The gun is a Farmingdale sharps with double set triggers. With snap caps I am left wondering how many hits can it take before the cushioning effect is too far gone. I have...
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I remember 3 or 4 years ago there was a post for how to rig a sharps action for safe dry fire, i.e. remove or add something so no danger of parts breaking. Couldn't find it with search engine. Please...
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I owned the Farmingdale only 5 days before I sent it away to get rebarreled. I fired maybe 6 or 7 rounds of 45-110 just to make sure it worked, and didn't notice anything wrong. Those cases were...
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Lead pot,the gun is all Farmingdale. In my first post with the picture of the case, the case is under a magnifier. Since then I learned to use the magnifier feature on my iphone camera. Your first...
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Firing pin protrudes 0.051 inch., firing pin dia is .124 inch and firing pin hole .147 inch. I can live with this problem as long as it's not doing any real harm. Might be hard on the firing pin...
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Before I read BrentD's post, (and the ones following) I decided to test my theory of primer set back due the cement like texture of black powder column from doing a double compression, i.e. the shock...
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Fortunately the breech block is undamaged and all smooth, flat and factory original. I know the original owner, who fired less than 150 rounds when it had the factory 45-110 barrel, I fired a few...
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Upon firing, the primer is pushed back against the breech face, then expands into the firing pin hole. As the block is lowered, the brass in the firing pin hole is now an obstruction to movement,...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Lee, thank you for all those suggestions and the effort to post them. I was hoping this would be a more common problem with a ready solution. My brass was all new unfired Starline that had been...
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I was thinking of the shock wave originating from the primer alone, partially "bouncing" off the base of the powder column before the black powder got going.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Hi folks. Recently got my Farmingdale Sharps, now in 45-90, back from barrel maker and had a chance to shoot it yesterday. Load was 83gr Olyde Ennisford 1 1/2 with a .06LDPE wad, 540gr Postell...
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 |