Also useful for packing lightly into air intakes for refrigerators, freezers, etc. to keep mice from getting in and eating the wiring (suggested by a local appliance repairman who came and fixed...
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Forum: Casting Equipment
Also useful for packing lightly into air intakes for refrigerators, freezers, etc. to keep mice from getting in and eating the wiring (suggested by a local appliance repairman who came and fixed...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Pigslayer: This is an "oldie", but maybe I can help. Modern-Bond made a couple of variants of their own lube-sizer design - a bit beefier (as you note) than the Ideal / Lyman ones - but around the...
Does anyone know what that weird "upside-down" revolver Piper Pieralbo ("Annie Walker") flourishes in the "Covert Affairs" TV series? PM me, as I don't get over here too often anymore.
Floodgate
Forum: Single Shot Guns
A friend of my Dad's gave me a single-shot bolt action "Hardware Store" .22 LR - that he had won in a bar on a punch board (who remembers those?) about 1941 that got me started; my buddy Ted had a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Liberty:
Depends on your interests. Nos. 3 and 4 are better for reloading info. The 1973 is the best overall display of the whole array of bullet designs (past and current, with photos) and...
Forum: Our Town
Wife has made ALL our soap for last 25+ years; basic "manteca" (lard) and lye (have to get it from chem. supply house - "Red Devil" has been pulled from the market as "hazmat"!!!), plus occasional...
Forum: Our Town
In the current "NEWSPEAK" used by the press, many novelists and mystery writers, and even some police and courts, a "bullet" means a complete loaded round. That's why we invented the term "BOOLITS"...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
jabilli:
"In general arguing online is silly and pointless- I don't think anyone in the history of the internet has looked at a counter-statement and thought, "You know, I might have been seeing...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
That was the version of the No.55 that was offered before 1951, when the triple-slide adjustment was added. It is the same as the old black cast iron No. 5's that were offered 1900 - 1947 or so by...
Forum: Our Town
A friend and I were out in our open Jeep when we spotted a large snake alongside the dirt road. We stopped to look at him and saw he was a big gopher snake, with narrow head and no rattles, though...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Hiram:
From the tip of the "ramrod" (really a cleaning rod) in your photo - with the multiple jags - it looks like that might be an early (1873 - 1878) .45-70 Trapdoor. Is the cut under the...
Forum: Leverguns
An old boy (mid-80's) in the Upper Mojave Desert where I lived in the '60's had a pair of special-order 1895 Short Rifles (NOT carbines) in .30-'03, in which he used hellacious hand loads. He would...
Forum: Leverguns
If you closely compare Savage 99's above and below the 90,000 serial "break point", you may notice some upsettage and possibly the start of a crack in the receiver at the left rear corner. This led...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
OK:
This inspired me to design a long range tang sight, with a staff CURVED along an arc struck from the center of the front sight, so the aperture would ALWAYS be square-on to the line of sight. ...
Dave:
They did come in the No. 3 with S/A die; Albert has one on his website. His photo shows what looks like a "40" as the die code, which is the correct one for the .38 Long Colt in the...
3-IN-1 oil? Not my preference, though I believe they reformulated it some years back. Back in the '40's and '50's, it used to dry to a heavy, rubbery varnish after a few years in storage. I must...
Forum: Swaging
I have available a package of .30 caliber copper jackets for swaged bullets. They are 1.00" long x 0.305" diameter, 0.020" wall, 59 grs. each, totaling about 4 1/2 lbs. = 500+ pieces - $35.00...
I am NOT a hunter (not against huntng, just never got into it) but, living on a rural 5 acres with small livestock (pigs, goats and sheep) and poultry, with mtn. lions, bobcats and ratcoons, we've...
skeettx:
Do you still have either of these tools? If so, I am very interested in either or both. Please PM me.
floodgate
Forum: Our Town
Don't sweat the details about guns and calibers - he does better than many other authors; just enjoy the books - and hit Netflix up for the CD. Also, try the Swedish police procedurals by Henning...
Forum: Leverguns
I wanted a plain .22 LR single-shot for plinking and light target work at the range, and got the little Savage with molded stock and integral trigger guard and the Accu-Trigger, which was what I was...
Forum: Our Town
Catshooter:
Thanks! I'm not having problems. No panel in the shop (3-wire 120 v.), just a powerstrip with overload cutoff, and no ground rod. I do have a 3-wire (#10 solid, 175 ft., center...
Forum: Our Town
One problem that has not been discussed is that of an outbuilding (barn, shop, trailer or "man-cave") fed from the house breaker-box. Codes differ as to whether you should carry the ground (not the...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Max it:
PM me; I'll pay the postage and bury it for you!
floodgate
Forum: Cast Boolits
It is especially important now that "bullet" is used - more often than not - in newspapers, novels and even police reports to refer to complete loaded rounds.
"My hobby is re-filling spent...
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 |