I don't know the scientific mumbo jumbo about the can and can'ts of Black Powder but I do know that the old Battleships of WW II used the holy black and those shells would get up and walk between...
Type: Posts; User: TNsailorman
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I don't know the scientific mumbo jumbo about the can and can'ts of Black Powder but I do know that the old Battleships of WW II used the holy black and those shells would get up and walk between...
Forum: Special Projects
Thanks for the memory jog Wooldridge, I could not think of the material I used so called it laminate. It was laminate but it was cloth and resin of some sort laminated togather to form the material...
Forum: Special Projects
Depends on how you are going to use the knife. If hunting and fishing, I would put laminated scales on it. I nearly always used laminated because the knives I made were going to be hunted and...
Forum: AirGuns
I have gone over to air guns almost completely right now and will continue to do so as long as this craziness in the reloading components continues. I have 2 BB rifles, 2 .17 pellet rifles, and one...
Forum: AirGuns
I haven't shot a primer fired anything in something like 4 or 5 years. I am not going to pay the price being demanded for primers right now and am hording the primers I have for the future. My...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Loaded and tested 3 16 gauge 1 1/8 oz loads with Blue Dot.
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
Yes, I have one also although I have not used it for a few years, it always weighed accurately. james
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I have gotten several emails lately informing me that I need to complete my order or that they need an address to complete delivery. These are the headers on the email. I never open these emails, I...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have been using the carbide tools from Sinclair since around the late 80's. Still going strong after several thousand rounds. I use them in a small hand drill clamped onto the bench. Run it at...
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
When I was very young our next door neighbor was an older woman in in 60's. She had lived most of her life on a farm with her husband over on the border close to the Kentucky and Tennessee line. ...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
My Dad had a saying, "Some people have more money than sense". He was right.
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Have you tried running the case into a Lyman M die or NOE's knockoff and then seating the capsule. You could always taper crimp slightly if needed. james
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I sincerely hope you are right GWS, for everyone's sake. james
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
I have always thought that copperheads have a vicious look to them. Like I said, the fight is on if I see one.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Guys the old days of reloading companies being owned and run by shooters and reloaders is gone forever. Vernon Speer, Fred Huntington SR, Len Brownell and others like them are not the modern...
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Copperheads and rattlers are my sworn enemies. There are no cottonmouths where I live or at least I have never heard of anyone seeing one around here. I consider the copperhead more dangerous than...
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
The rattlesnake and copperhead have the pit between the snout and the eye that is easily seen. They are called Pit Viper snakes and poisonous. Also your snake does not have the broad arrowhead shape...
Forum: Military Rifles
I just found this thread and I was suspecting the sear right off the bat. I have both 1903 and 1903A3 and they both hold quite well. Changing triggers can be a challenge at times or even worse it...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I have some of the old CCC .43 Spanish brass cases and they are much thicker in the side walls than the Bertram brass. Most of the early Bertram .43 Spanish that I bought split the side of the cases...
Forum: Shot Guns
There is quite a bit of data for Herco and Unique in the older manuals on the 16 gauge. But the loads mostly are for 7, 8, 8 1/2 shot sizes. I never loaded BB or #2 shot in anything so I cannot...
Forum: AirGuns
I hope you have a great trip to Florida. Sounds like you have a good handle on your agenda. I am with you, this ol country boy is not going to wrestle a Python. If I can't shoot it I will leave it...
Forum: Military Rifles
I was raised in a neighborhood where there were quite a few WW II combat veterans who fought both in the Pacific and Europe. They all had actual combat experience. Not one ever criticized the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Nice looking shell and a very good crimp. james
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Good story and well written. Nothing like the death rattle of the enemy in the afternoon. Puts a glow on the day. james
Forum: AirGuns
I don't know why someone would not use a 12 gauge on pigs. At close range, it will hit harder with a good slug than any lever action rifle I know of. james
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 |