Oooooooo, the Vincent's are beautiful, but I really love the "jaeger" style full stock look, but for weight a half stock may be better?
Type: Posts; User: downunderrunner
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Oooooooo, the Vincent's are beautiful, but I really love the "jaeger" style full stock look, but for weight a half stock may be better?
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Ok, thanks guys, think I'll go with 1:36, out of a 28-30 inch barrel, probably full stock too, anyone want to throw some suggestions at me?
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Thanks for the encouragement, what twist would y'all recommend? Thinking about making my own barrel, button rifled, to suit a spare lock and trigger I have
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Just wondering, as I have access to some 98grn .32 hbwc's, would they be suitable as a sort of "minie ball" for a .32 cal front stuffer?
Forum: Muzzleloading.
3 stats, 2 HALO, 4 HAHO, all before 30, think i'm done pushing my luck THAT far! lol, i'll stick to powder making............
Forum: Single Shot Guns
personally, .327 federal, .44mag CAN be done, but it's a bomb waiting to explode, as for the rounds you listed, .218 bee, utter winner! unless your open to a .222 rimmed, just be aware that your...
had a fed blow up in a "single action" hand primer, 15? odd years ago, never used fed's since, still using a lee, round tray hand primer, the key id to blow her out every 500, or at the end of every...
Forum: Special Projects
bedliner, and ALOT more media than your used to!
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
yeah, thats the lad i mentioned earlier in the thread! his ignition method seems to work rather well, i got 10 for 10 using his method last time i hit the range with my ladies
Forum: Our Town
australia is a socialist hellhole far worse thank the peoples republik of kommiefornia! trust me, i live there, its the safest place to be a criminal in the world! self defence is for all practical...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
everyone does, but when your an LAFO, they feel that it's their job to harass, target and abuse you
Forum: Single Shot Guns
ah, NT, gotcha, NSW here, laws are fairly different, dies, cases and such (just no primers or propellant don't need a b 709, and those bits that do, the paperwork don't cost a thing!
bloody...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
holy................................................... 650 quid???????????? i just paid $400 aud for a vic gov marked cadet in .297-230 morris!
Forum: Single Shot Guns
ah, the issue your having is caliber related then! lol, that's why i stick to their original chamberings, no pta, no registration, only a B709.............................
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Bigeyebob, how is it to much trouble? just B709 form? not on dies, stocks, bolts, triggers, springs, barrel bands, blocks, actually, the only parts on a martini, that require a b709, are the...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
actually, the ring idea i have seen down here, but on a large frame martini in .450 BPE, used by a buff hunter/guide on his "insurance" rifle, it was set up so that as he was retrieving the next...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
beautiful old girl there brother! that timber looks like ironbark to me, although, the quilting in the grain is atypical for ironbark, and more common in old grown redgum, also incredibly hard stuff!
Forum: Cast Boolits
i've been casting on and off, for 25 of my 30 years! dad taught me alot about it, as he cast boolits for his .38spl target loads in the 90's, i currently cast for 25-20, 25-35,8x60 krop, 30-40, .577,...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
ok, i am somewhat in awe at the moment!
Ballistics, i think you deserve at LEAST the SG for that effort, and providing the information to those of us trying to make these fine old ladies speak! ...
Forum: Our Town
sounds like a species of pippin, also possibly an apple-crab decended from the "red rusett" strain popular in the borders and marches of england in the 15th century
you may have better results...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
just got myself one of these ladies, and found some EXCELLENT resources online:
http://www.murpheysmuskets.com/store/p13/11.6mm_Chassepot_Reloading_Die.html
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Forum: Our Town
i have access to several apple-crab trees near my property, some are the original granny smiths, that blush pink when ripe, some as a pippin, one is a red delicious type, and there's something that...
oh nuts.....................
truly sad to lose such a knowledgeable brother!
thank you fishman
CBE? as i cast bullet engineering in australia? they do moulds for the vett?
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 |