Still looking for this mold
Type: Posts; User: 45-110
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
Anyone have this mold they could part with?
thanks
KW
Forum: Completed Deals
Looking to buy 40-50 cases, new or fired.
kw
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I am building up a Ballard in 40-70 with a 1-14 twist. Going to use the shorter 415 gr. PP DD that has worked so very well in my .40-82 silhouette. My scores went up considerately when I went from a...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Ebay has the felts all the time.
kw
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Drying wet powder was frequently laid out on blankets in the sun, as noted in several historical references I have read.
kw
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
I would like to see if a bore camera indicates tooling marks or other roughness that may cause the finning. Also wondering if a HDP wad under bullet in this case would help with lead displacement.
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Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
Ruling out spin drift, it seems to me a right twist with a left wind would cause a downward spiral travel, but a right wind may cause bullet spiral climb? Hard to determine though if the wind was...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
Brian, Left or Right hand twist rifling?
kw
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
My last Green Mtn. barrel seems to have been part of a covid run. Bore/grooves are rough and it slugs at a close .460"
kw
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I would bet that if Norma made a run of 10,000 or more .45 basic cases they would be sold in a week. There surely are a lot of shooters waiting to restock their case supplies, and MFG's are still...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I have 2 .45-110's, a C. Sharps and a Shiloh, both great shooters. I already have my brass, but trying to stock up now is near impossible. For extreme long range shooting I prefer the 34" barrels.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Mine is a 18 twist .45, like I said its shoots very well at 1000 yds.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I have a Mcgowen .45 cal bull barrel on my Ballard, been shooting paper patch through it for 1 season. It has proven to be a match shooter, no machine marks in bore. My last green Mountain barrel was...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I buy the .03/.06" ldpe or hdpe sheets from Grainger
kw
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
When this happens while musket shooting it is almost always on the 2nd shot. The first shot ignites a left over thread/lint/crud from the previous cleaning. Not static electricity! NSS-A shooters...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Had a new .45 Ruger Bisley a few years ago that would not hit target at 25 yds. Could easily see that the barrel was not co axial with frame/cylinder centerline. Ruger did fix it by sending a new...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
I found a "pile" of old stock Fox River onion skin 25% cotton that measures .0015" in Billings last week by driving around and asking "whadya got".
2" thick hand wrapped bundle for $20
kw
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 |