One can make the screened powder any size that one desires and there have been many variations over the years. Not all production facilities have the exact same screen mesh sizes since the screen...
Type: Posts; User: HamGunner
Forum: Muzzleloading.
One can make the screened powder any size that one desires and there have been many variations over the years. Not all production facilities have the exact same screen mesh sizes since the screen...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I do not see any safety issue by using a steel die. There will not be any sparks and that would be the only safety issue that I could foresee. I use one of Woody's 3" dies with a 20 ton press and it...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I remember attempting to work up some loads for my Colt New Service using 2400 pushing a Lyman 454424. Not very accurate until it got up to more pressure than I wanted to subject the New Service to. ...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Yes, American owned is a good thing.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Hodgdon just announced that it has purchased RCBS. The company will remain in California keeping the present skilled workers and should remain a top rated company.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Woody's used to make smaller dies, but his web site now only lists 3" and 3.5" dies as far as I can find.
https://www.woodysrocks.com/store/p275/Black_Powder_Puck_Press.html#/
Forum: Muzzleloading.
My 12 ton was a cheap Chinese Jack and most likely, it was not even achieving 12 ton before it's bypass valve was opening. I would think that a good jack would give you what it claims on the label...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
When I was using a 12 ton jack, I could put enough force on the handle to cause it to bypass. The cheap Chinese jack shortly shot craps by doing so on a steady basis, so I beefed up my press and got...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
DoubleBuck:
Looks like my first chronograph comparison of TP, Goex, and my Sassafras was on post #7852 back on 01/24/24.
Post #7852: First Chronograph test of TP
"Well, it got up to just over...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Good report on the cleanliness of TP Black.
I took two of my grandsons out shooting today and we shot my .32 cal. CVA Squirrel percussion rifle and my (new to me) .45 cal. TC Flinter that was...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
With all the chatter about moisture and these powders being fairly hygroscopic, I checked all the leftovers from my batches that I had made right at 2 months ago. Stored in plastic medicine bottles...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Did you mill and corn this or use the cooking method? I milled then corned/screened the (Gray) with the Manganese as I also did with the Crimson with the Iron Oxide.
I found no difficulty in...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
When I started corning BP, I bought a 3" stainless steel die with a precision fitting aluminum piston from Woody's along with five thin Delrin spacers and I apply pressure to the press with a 20 ton...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I started off with one of the Woody's 3" dies along with a half dozen thin Delrin plastic spacers, which I doubt will compress any measurable amount. I do not use a spacer on the top, but just the...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
i found this posted here on this site from back in 2016. It is shown in volume, so that was likely the usual way of measuring it.
KNO3 - 2 1/3 cups, Sugar - 2 cups (starch ?), Iron Oxide - 1/8 cup....
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I would rather think by weight of dried ingredients. Not nearly as accurate other wise.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I believe that will calculate out to 47.37 % of the Nitrates, 42.10 % of the Starch, and 10.53 % of the Iron Oxide.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
In my case, I think that is a very correct statement as well. Although I think I have reached the point now to where I am very happy with my process and the results so I will perhaps start using my...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
If you should succeed getting anything much higher than around 92-94%, I think we would all be very interested in your procedure. I know I would love to be able to jump over that hurtle.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I have had a couple of chain fires. One out of a 1976 model replica Pietta 1851 Navy .36 cal. It was an older well used steel frame revolver and the face of the frame (recoil shield) had six slight...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Thompson Center started selling muzzle loading rifles in about 1970 and from what I have read, they started with serial #1,000. A four digit serial # should put it somewhere from 1971-1973 I would...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
A one-two-one ratio of Beeswax-Lambs tallow-Crisco or something similar depending upon the outside temperature, should give a decent all weather bullet/cylinder throat lube. I have never liked...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I have no idea about the AA2230c, but AA2230 used to be labeled as MR-223 when it first came out in the rectangular plastic jug from Czechoslovakia back in the 90's.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I started casting in 1973 and Lee had a free loading chart that came with some of their casting stuff. I was casting for .44 mag. and I remember it listed 630 with some decent velocity for the .44...
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 |