If you use the shrink tubing that has a sealant it will not move once you shrink it.
Type: Posts; User: fastfire
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
If you use the shrink tubing that has a sealant it will not move once you shrink it.
Forum: Our Town
I use a 4x4 24" long one end screwed to a 12"x12" plywood for the base.
I hit the end of the 4x4 thinking that if I hit a hard surface (metal of concrete) with that plastic it would break.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
If you have a problem with the tape use electrical shrink tubing.
Forum: Cast Boolits
The wire in the center is the same material as the outside wrapping wire, aluminum.
Forum: Cast Boolits
They appear to be aluminum. I found the biggest one yesterday and the others last fall.
Forum: Cast Boolits
The small one mesures .355 and weighs 80.2gr
large one mesures .430 and weighs 134gr.
There are (very slight) rifling marks, wondering if there was a jacket of some kind on them?
They...
Forum: Factory Rifles
One in the head and you have no more target...... for a second shot................
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I like the boat tail idea, then PC.
:popcorn:
My friend just purchased a 338 win mag with a Remington 700 action hardly used, looks like it just came from the box.
Saw an elk got in position to shoot switched off the safety and BOOM! His thumb...
Forum: Our Town
If yer goina spend that much fer a spottin scope, might as well get this. Then ya wouldn't need a spotin scope....
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
AR sub forum, YES!
without it someone is prejudice against AR'S
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
If Bullets tumbling and impacting backwards the soft lead would show more deformation?
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
(I think most of the heat in a fired bullet is from friction, not heat transfer from powder gases. ) Yes, I'm with ya.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I your casting pot, what are you fluxing with, sawdust?
Use only bees wax and you should not have crud problems.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Thanks, he's out of 231 now.
Still has 700x and 800x
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
We haven't had a frost since March or early April. The lead is barely oxidized leading me to believe they haven't been there through the winter.
So that's what's leading me to believe heat had...
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Just arrived some hard to get Starline Brass! SL45LC- $56.00 / 250 SL41MAG- $54.00 / 250 SL32HR- $45.00 / 250 SL762TOK...
I use a deburring tool set-up in a cordless drill, make quick work of it.
With a little practice you can remove just enough to prime without issues. fwiw
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
My Bass Pro order also came today 5lbs of Unique ;-)
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 |