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happy, you can get a couple thousands off the siz (in one direction, anyway) by lapping the mold block faces with a good flat stone, or with a piece of auto body sandpaper (600 grit or finer) laid on...

Well, never mind then... I guess the stuff I got my hands on back in engineering school was the exception rather than the rule.

I stand corrected.

It'd be interesting to try some drafting vellum... it's not paper at all, it's parched calf skin. Very tough.

I use one lube, and this is how I make it:

1. Melt one wax toilet ring.
2. Add one part wheel bearing grease to four parts toilet ring.
3. Add one peeled crayon for color (I like green).
4....

Yeah. They could be solid tin or even lead-free pewter and they'd make a perfectly good bullet. If you can melt the alloy, you won't hurt anything by loading and shooting it.

Thank you, montana_charlie. This is exactly what I was looking for.

So seating depth isn't critical. All right, thanks.

All right, thank you.

How close to the rifling do you seat the bullet? Or does it matter?

When you cut it, leave the stumps and they'll grow back. Also, if you've got green twigs left over, jab them cut-end down into the soft, wet soil of the creek bank, and they'll root where you put...

Anybody here got some ingots for sale?

A few years ago I custom-designed a 210-grain flat-pointed bore-rider with gas check for .30-40. I got advice on the project from Charles Graf, and worked with Dan at Mountain Molds to get the...

Maybe I should ask this a different way. I'll have a go at it.

If I'm going to try paper-patching for a smokeless cartridge, what important things do I need to know about the fit between the...

For that matter, it's just as easy to get a .458 WinBag bolt gun and load it like a .45-70.

So the length of the patch doesn't matter? The distance from the bullet to the rifling doesn't matter, and the transition to the rifling doesn't matter?

Hmm. Makes me wonder what I'd been dong...

This sounds worth pursuing. From whom do you purchase your reamers?

Harry Pope would know. I wish he was around to ask.

I've got a buddy who reloads cast bullets for his Ruger No. 1 Tropical in .458 Win Mag. He has shot 405-grain loads as fast as 2300 fps out of that rifle just to push his personal limits... and that...

Let's say I was starting with a Ruger No. 1 action, wood, and a barrel blank, and I wanted to build a rifle in a standard caliber (let's say .45-90, just for the sake of discussion) expressly for...

Interesting. I bet it wouldn't be hard to build one on a P-14 action... the bolt face is almost right from the get-go.

Going the Savage 110-series route is a very good idea, and requires less gunsmithing than the Lee Enfield I mentioned earlier. Plus, if you get the Savage rather than the Stevens, you get the...

My ingot mold is a cast aluminum cornbread pan. It drops seven little lead cornbreads at about a pound each, a very handy size for dropping in my Saeco pot.

I'm gathering that you're not a tremendous fan of rear-lug bolts, but if you could get over that I would recommend a conversion on an Enfield No. 4 action. It's got a short-throw bolt with plenty of...

Apart from the old Siamese Mauser and the even more ancient Remington-Keene, has anyone ever sold a bolt-action .45-70?

Rather than build your CB .30-caliber around a .30 Remington, you might consider building it around a .303 Savage. It's a fairly short, rimmed cartridge with a nice long neck that will hold lots of...

Not sure what you mean by this. .458 Win Mag is a caliber, and Ruger No. 1 is a model of single-shot rifle. It's not particularly difficult to have both in the same package:
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