This one was made from spare parts laying around LAGS laboratory!
Type: Posts; User: dondiego
Forum: Muzzleloading.
This one was made from spare parts laying around LAGS laboratory!
Forum: Muzzleloading.
A pellet with a hole in the middle really reminds me of a rocket motor!
Forum: Cast Boolits
I understand. It's like any bullets. They have to be the size that you need and if they aren't, you need to fix them. I do like the fact that you can increase the size of a cast bullet by adding PC....
Forum: Cast Boolits
Do you always have to size PC'd bullets? I try not to size if I don't have too. I mostly plink with pistols in large quantities. Also have a suppressed FA Uzi.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Just for a primer charge. The bulk is smokeless powder.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I no longer shoot at indoor ranges due to the lead primer dust issue. You most likely had been increasing your lead level from shooting indoors and when the guy swept the floor in front of the firing...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Just use telephone books then!..........oh, wait. I'll be 72 in November.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Lead is so prevalent in nature that it is almost impossible to find anything that doesn't have lead in it. We are now so capable of detecting it to such tiny levels as well. I worked in a chemistry...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
You certainly helped me! I started scrounging pewter and your tutoring really helped. Now, I can identify good pewter a mile away. I have a good supply of pewter and actually use some of the pieces,...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Doing that is worth about a thousand dollars an hour to me because I am doing it on my time and not someone else that is determining what I am worth on a Saturday............same goes for casting and...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Linotype is a useful metal but lead is a toxin dontcha know?
Forum: Cast Boolits
Mad hatter was totally mercury related.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I believe that lead contamination was verified in dabbling ducks that frequented heavily shot over areas.
Forum: Cast Boolits
My concern is the ban on all lead bullets and all lead shot at all shooting clubs. It is coming. Could they do that at a club located on a lead mine property, say in Missouri where lead is removed...
Forum: Cast Boolits
5000 grit shouldn't change the script too much!
Forum: Cast Boolits
Could I use that 5000 grit to polish the lenses of my scratched, old, polarized, sunglasses?
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I was surprised at the number of steps required to get from galena to ingot!
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I have loaded all 6 chambers and capped every other cylinder and could never get a chain fire from the rear. When I used undersized or out of round balls and no lube in the front of the cylinder, I...
Forum: Cast Boolits
When my powder went bad it off gassed acetic acid and it was quite corrosive.
Forum: Cast Boolits
My tub has always been coated with tumbling crud. Just put the brass in and tumble it.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I am still seeing your pics.............
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 |