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Magnesium is easy to identify:

Scrape a spot clean and apply a drop of vinegar. If it starts bubbling, its magnesium.

Aluminium and zinc will not react with vinegar.

- save a little money
- be able to "roll my own" for an obsolete calibre
- its fun to roll my own!
- "user friendly" low recoil loads with cast boolits for recreational shooting and for learning...

The paper sabot was used rather succesfully in the Dreyse Needle Gun... at least it was a contributing factor to Denmark loosing approx 20% of her total area to the Prussians in 1864.
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When nipping it with a pair of side-cutting pliers, the lead-weight is easily marked at the edge. With zinc you really have to put an effort into making a mark.

Try it, once you've done it in real...

.... and I thought pigeons and doves were the same sort of critter :mrgreen:


The Danish word for rook is "råge" and the word for young is "unge", a young rook is simply called a "råge-unge"....

Would really like to try some squirrel, but in Denmark squirrels are too small, too few and too rare to be considered anything but cute and a no-no for hunting.

(And I'm afraid that the nice...

In the early summer in Western Jutland, the hunting of young rooks is a great sport.

You stroll around the colony, and when the just flight worthy young jump out of the nest, you pop them with a...

Nice tutorial.

Last time I stuck a case (In a LEE) i just loosened the nut, pulled out the decapping stem and used a brass rod and a hammer to punch out the case.

I don't quite get the meaning...

9.3x62mm was designed to be "large calibre in a Mauser 98 magazine". It is quite popular in Scandinavia for moose and boar.

And all the manufacturers make dies for it.



.... sounds like a...

So right, but they still go impressively "bang" with considerable force and fragmentation, and in my world, that counts as "explosive". For those who experience them at close range, it probably does...

In the European Union lead-WV's are being phased out for good. Once the weights in use are all changed, they will be gone.


With regards to the "dental" lead, there is some sense to the "bio...

I' used an old range hood in my previous workshop

(now I use a homemade construction with a rather scary centrifugal blower that used to live in an industrial power supply. I can cook in a wok...

Good story!

He absolutely deserves a bottle of good whiskey at X-mas!

Just talked to him.

He said it was an

"8 mm M.30 S Hungarian Mannlicher" either a spotter or an API. No colour-coding was left on the bullets.

No he hasn't.

A friend of mine dismantled an inertia hammer with one (Believe it was Austrian, but can ask if anybody is interested)

German "B-geschoss" and Russian "ZaRa" are the classics.

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You add two small strips of aluminium tape to the faces of the mold, to cast slightly larger boolits.

Here is an article about it:
http://www.surplusrifle.com/shooting/castingcouch/index.asp

I'd say you could, but if the boolit deforms from it, it may not shoot straight.

Hardness, lubrication and shape will allways be deciding parameters.



Nothing will give better answers than...

There is an African oil/water-burner here: http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD_40/VITA/OILKILN2/EN/OILKILN2.HTM

Nice boxes, they deserve hemp-rope handles!

I guess I forgot to describe my method:

I use "jewellers casting sand" which is a fine-grained petrobond.

The primary advantages are, that it is quick and easy when just casting a few pieces,...

Guess I'll have to show some of my castings. Some of these are sterling, others are .999 fine silver (I'm too cheap to shoot them, but they are a fun challenge to cast)

.308 .357 and .45
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Thank you for the welcomes!

:drinks:

I must say, that if I was not so cheap (people from my part of Denmark have the economical minds of Scotsmen) I would buy 11,7X51 DR brass and dies. When...

I own and shoot a Danish RB (Being a Dane by birth, I guess I'm supposed to love it. It was bought by my grandfather, given as a present to my father, and now passed to me... in mint condition).
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