One of my favorite .38 Special bullets from the old days. Got a two cavity H&G San Diego. Visiting Ben right now for some exercise. He's already looking for one for himself. Bought it years ago...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
One of my favorite .38 Special bullets from the old days. Got a two cavity H&G San Diego. Visiting Ben right now for some exercise. He's already looking for one for himself. Bought it years ago...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Hmmmmmm! Wonder what happened to the short run of Federal 8mm Nambu brass about 15 years ago and why did they stop making it. Had three range pickups at one time but have been hoodooed out of them...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Loaded a bunch of RCBS 45-325-FN-U slugs for a friend's Freed Arms guns. Runs right at 338 grains. Downsized to .454" in my nose first sizing rig. He was happy with them. I dropped out of the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Won't hurt anything. I tumble #4 buck in mine all the time with a dash of powdered graphite for locks. Then throw in "Lizzard Litter" pecan shells and have at it. Never noticed the difference. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Got a can of .44 Special cases from a local gun shop about 10 years ago. A few .357s mixed in. About 75% of the .44 Special was Remington balloon head. The remaider boxer. The 8 or 10 .357s had...
With all the stuff we're shipping overseas, no telling what headstamps you'll fine. I'm guessing you guys are correct on the 23 being the year on manufacture. Maybe Win indicated Winchester for some...
Forum: Cast Boolits
You may be able to get a better trade as the larger diameter bullets are harder to come by for someone wanting to load for a .38 S&W. Commercial bullets or cast?/beagle
Forum: Shot Guns
Grandson got a new drone for Christmas a couple years ago. About his second flight, it landed/crashed on a walnut limb about 40 feet up. Went to the house and grabbed the .357 Marlin and a box of...
Go with the 452423 and I like the 1/3rd moon clips as it makes for an easier partial reload. Big old rough, awesome beasts. Wonder what happened to them all./beagle
Forum: Cast Boolits
As I recall from somewhere (?) the 457124 was designed with a smaller diameter nose to allow use in trapdoor Springfields with black powder. Made smaller to allow chambering after black powder...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Then, there's another club member that blew the top strap/rear sight and tops off three cylinders on what had been a really nice M25 .45 ACP S&W one morning due to an overload/reload. Heard the blast...
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Got to watch those old red and blacks. Stronger than you think. Shooting partner attempted to run the neighbor's rooster out of his tomatoe patch with one.
Had to go explain why his rooster...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Ran into that too at Dicks. They quit selling ammo at ours. No beed to go now./beagle
QUOTE=TNsailorman;5641442]I wrote Dick's off the first time I went into the store and the store policy was...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Piece of aluminum metal plate withh work better than steel. Dissipates heat faster. We tried fastening aluminum heat sinks off electronics to mould bottoms on large capacity .457 moulds to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Was at the range. Deer season coming on and zeroing was in season.
Old fellow was down to the left shooting a Mosin Nagant. He'd shoot, use a cleaning rod to remove brass and have at it again. I...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
As well as I recall, the AMU brass fired and functioned in my Colt Midrange Match Gold Cup. If I'm not forgetting, the AMU case has a very slight rim. I have reloaded it and shot in a colt Python...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Works good when mixed with aircraft hydraulic fluid for removing external rust.
As has been mentioned, great for penetrating oil./beagle
Can't tell from the photos but in the early days, Lyman/Ideal set up their reloaders for "caps" as well as battery cups. Had two sizes of primer decapping pins. Used several thousand when I started...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Again, "it depends". .003" is the accepted norm for rifles. After that, distortion sets in especially with base first sizers. With a nose first rig, you can get away with more. I've taken .458s...
Forum: Gas Checks
Been running .45/70 checks out of those this week. Definitely work real well for that if they'd only get their pilitics straight, there would be more around.
Get about 100 checks out of...
Forum: Shot Guns
Unless it's a labor of love, you'll soon surpass the value of the finished gun. I had a 12 guage Topper. Lasted my whole boyhood. They made a few 28 gauges. Always wanted one of them./beagle
Forum: Leverguns
I built one on a 336 with a 1:10 twist and it shot well. Got a feeling you'll run into problems with lighter bullets as the earlier rifles had a real fast twist and were designed for a 117 grain...
Forum: Leverguns
Owned a 336 Marlin in .44 Mag about 15 years ago. Had a saddle ring of all things and the ejector was definitely different. One reason I got rid of it was the anticipated shortage of spare parts. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
They did at one time. Some of the old bench rest shooters may have some stashed. The idea was to give a gentle ignition./beagle
Forum: Cast Boolits
Oh yeah, rock and roll. The first half of the 23 years I was in the Army, I was an Aircraft Armament mechanic. First tour in VN was enlightening as I flew as armorer/door gunner as we couldn't...
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 |