I noted no one has mentioned WATER! I keep, as part of my "prep kit" in truck, two plastic supermarket-bought water bottles. From rinsing "whatever" from an eye, to irrigating a wound, or even ;)...
Type: Posts; User: georgerkahn
I noted no one has mentioned WATER! I keep, as part of my "prep kit" in truck, two plastic supermarket-bought water bottles. From rinsing "whatever" from an eye, to irrigating a wound, or even ;)...
Forum: Military Rifles
With "note" I, at least once each summer, take out and shoot my U.S. Rock Island Arsenal Model 1903 S/n 118,xxx which was made in 1907. My "note" is I have never shot military ball ammo in it -- its...
Congrats on your find! I have one of these but frankly it was just "OK" -- nothing too spectacular for me. (Note: This is just "ME" -- there's NO reason to suggest it shan't be the very BEST for...
THANK YOU for posting your experience, and happy consequences -- skin broken only on a hand -- were sooooo minor. BUT -- in "prep for the worst" -- you definitely reinforced something I did NOT...
Forum: Our Town
As I have/use/regularly tow eight different trailers, I had a wee bit ;) of trailer-tow experience. Cutting wood and trailer-towing it home has, through the years, "opened my eyes" to what I see as...
Forum: Our Town
Quote Originally Posted by MaryB
Death by shrapnel from the branch LOL
Winger Ed it's been quite a while since someone elicited such a groan from me as your 'barking'! My kudos to you --...
Forum: Our Town
In my squirrel-target youth -- ~ 1/2-century back -- we'd buy Zippo cigarette lighter FLINTS. On dad's drill press, a hole just the right size to snug in a .22 short was drilled in a flat board. The...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I, too, am not one to recall codes often rarely employed. Hence, I have a "cheat chart" -- in *.jpg format -- taped to the side of my HP laser printer. Here is a copy :) which, if you wish, you may...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Another "ALT" trick is to create that missing ¢ character! Why it is not provided really beats all out of me. But, using the ALT key -- as with others above, one can make/insert it.
Make sure your...
Forum: Military Rifles
I, too, have a .30 carbine chambered Ruger Black-hawk, and -- I did not mention -- the H110 load was suggested to me for shooting in this revolver. H110 works well in the handgun, too, albeit it (to...
Long out of production (1970's vintage) the Lyman All-American Four station turret -- if you can find one ;) -- had my vote! Made with high quality, its only "fault" was lack of instruction manual. ...
Forum: Military Rifles
I am on same page as most all responders. Having a few different M1 Carbines, I also was "a-scared" to cast/shoot lead. However, a range buddy (now deceased) turned me about vis this, with his...
Forum: Our Town
I was never a Goodyear fan (other than watching their Blimps :)) -- but my Toyota pick-up came equipped with "Goodyear Kevlar" all-purpose m+s tires. This, in 2016, on then-new truck. Zero...
Congrats at what appears to be an awesome deal!!! An anecdotal side-story is I took a pretty-much-anti-gun colleague to a gun show, maybe 20 years back, and spied a Ruger revolver in .30 carbine. I...
THANK YOU, Mr. Gibson (and others ;))! I had not entertained the thought of checking out ACP or Auto-Rim loadings (duh!). (I never professed to be the brightest lamp in the fixture!) And... that's...
I purchased some Matt's Bullets 165 grain wad-cutters, and in seeking loading data I was told of (I didn't know they existed!) Star-line's shortened .45 Colt cases, which they call "Cowboy"; I bought...
Forum: Our Town
I have, for years, used a free software to play pretty much everything on my Dell desk-top, running Windows 10. I recommend "nothing!" ;) -- 'specially re any computer stuff, as your described...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
A marvelous machine, indeed. BUT, all parts need to be in sync with each other, I have learned. My well-used specimen was quite fussy -- pretty much each trip to range had a draw-back -- until I...
Forum: Our Town
My (late) friend Charles Leonard Smith had one on his truck. Strike one was when he got up (at State Park campsite) to eat breakfast; headed to toilets; and then went to launch his attached boat. ...
Forum: Our Town
I, too, pretty much relie on the wife -- who, by happenstance worked as a Registered Nurse. She is most adept using a sewing needle most of the time. What I will add is re those nasty (to me ;))...
Thanks to all -- including a fellow who has PM'd me lots of GREAT stuff I was not aware of. (I did not know that Starline made short .45 Colt-- their "Cowboy Special" brass; two 100-bags now (Graf &...
I bought some items from the wife of a recently deceased friend which included two boxes of Matt's Bullets 165-grain wad-cutters. 328283 Interesting looking .452"-sized cast bullets, I was thinking...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I also have an H006M -- their .357 Magnum, with nary an operational -- feeding or firing -- problem: EVER! I also have their Henry Model H006 Golden Boy .44 Remington Magnum, with which I'm just as...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I share your frustration with the sprue-plate dilemma: too quick, or too slow. My solution, bion, which has worked awesomely for me, it to cast using TWO moulds! For a few, I have the same mould,...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Just an added note re "reduced" velocity -- the start of this thread, is I clearly recall the words of the instructor when I was a student taking Hunter Safety a short fifty-five or so years ago. To...
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 |