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The solid soft lead bullet is undoubtably the best and most satisfactory expanding bullet that has ever been designed. It invariably mushrooms perfectly, and never breaks up. With the metal base that is essential for velocities of 2000 f.s. and upwards to protect the naked base, these metal-based soft lead bullets are splendid.
John Taylor - "African Rifles and Cartridges"
Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
Very interesting.
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Oh Great! More equipment to buy!
Mal
Mal Paso means Bad Pass, just so you know.
Was that Heaven or hell? looked Like Heaven with those stacks
Thanks for sharing! I'll bet (hope?) things have changed a bit for the miners and processors since then.
John
I have a chunk of galena ore. If anyone is interested i could post a couple of pics. I had a coworker who is a serious rock hound and gifted it to me. Note. When a rock hound gifts you galena ore don't mention turning it into boolits.
Paper targets aren't your friends. They won't lie for you and they don't care if your feelings get hurt.
I grew up about 40 miles east of Galena, IL where a substantial percentage of the lead sent downrange by the Union Army was mined. At one time, Jo Davies County had more working mines (lead, zinc, and fluorite) in operation than all the remaining Illinois counties combined. Most of the mines were closed down by the time I hunted deer in those hills but, given access to the property, I could still probably locate one or two of the sites on the old Lightner farm.
Bill
"I'm not often right but I've never been wrong."
Jimmy Buffett
"Scarlet Begonias"
When I was very young, a common kit for kids to assemble and play with was a crystal radio, the one with a wire coil for tuning. It used a chunk of galena as the signal detector. Power was provided by the carrier wave of the transmitting radio station. You had to use earphones to hear anything.
Wayne
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger - or else it gives you a bad rash.
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