gloved hand with an old wood hammer handle handy to tap a sticky boolit out if needed
Type: Posts; User: sljacob
gloved hand with an old wood hammer handle handy to tap a sticky boolit out if needed
Forum: Cast Boolits
good on you for your powder score...I have not seen bullseye. unique, or 2400 on a shelf for over 2 years now. The closest I have came is "you should have been here last week we had some come in but...
Forum: Our Town
I manage the county sanitation department here in a rural area of the state, it just blows me away to see what folks bring up to throw away.
Like others have stated above, I was raised to not...
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I have a 2007 full size 3500 crew cab with the 5.9l and I get around 15 to 16 mpg @ freeway speeds (75 to 80 mph) towing a four horse trailer loaded with 5 head of cattle weighing 12 to 1400 lbs...
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If you are going to brain tan, there are several good u-tube videos on it. pay close attention to scraping the hair off. You need to get the top layer of dermis off as well as the hair. Basically you...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I agree...Blow the pic up and look at the shadow at the base. you can see the misalignment in the shadow
Forum: Cast Boolits
I would check and make sure that the mold is closing properly.
From the picture I will guess that there is an alignment issue.
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in response to a braggart or an unbelievable story....
"Yea and I have heard ducks fart underwater too." -my great granddad
Forum: Cast Boolits
While we are on the subject, my gunsmith was giving me a hard time for loading PMC brass in .45ACP, he was telling
me that it was prone to case failure. I had never heard that before. Is there...
Forum: Our Town
I vote yes for a gardening I think many of us here would benefit from it, but I would rather see it in the outdoorsman section.
I would like to keep the cast boolits site dedicated mostly to casting...
Forum: Cast Boolits
In the summer I have used an old t-shirt or rag, I the winter a layer of snow on top of a bucket of water
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I use Kaspersky, I have had good luck with it.
Forum: Cast Boolits
A couple more tips...keep the sprue plate hot, I like to pour a little extra melt on top of the plate after the cavity is full on the first couple of casts to heat it up.
I have a few molds...
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My heart goes out to you and your family...let each one of us here take a little of your pain and help you carry it.
My thoughts and prayers are with you.
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An old safe for an ammo locker....Good Idea, I have an old safe that would work well for that. I like the shelving idea too.
thanks for posting
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-56 here in my hometown in northern Utah (no wind). I can remember several mornings at or near -50 back in the late 70's and early 80's. minus 30 or 40 is not that uncommon here most winters.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Keep your mold hot.
as mold maker stated use a fast steady cadence and adjust mold temp by casting speed, IMO your alloy is too hot, I run mine in the 675 to 700 degrees. The hotter the melt is the...
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merry Christmas to all our cast boolit family
may god bless everyone
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Sorry to hear of your troubles. been through it twice myself, it isn't easy but you do get through it. Keep
your back strait and your chin up and in time you will laugh and love again.
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working better than ever here
thanks for all the hard work keeping this sight top notch!!
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I have several hundred lbs of lead form scraping out submersible pump cable used in oilwells.
It is not as soft as pure pb but close enough to treat it as such.
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 |