After a long search, I found a new cylinder for my smith wesson model 63. It is caliber 22 lr.
I want to re chamber it to 22 mag to make a convertable gun. 22lr/22mag.
I need to know how, I no...
Type: Posts; User: ra_balke
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
After a long search, I found a new cylinder for my smith wesson model 63. It is caliber 22 lr.
I want to re chamber it to 22 mag to make a convertable gun. 22lr/22mag.
I need to know how, I no...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
The feed rails are in the gun,,, I guess, ...I have 3, m-94s, and they are all pre 64, and nothing inside seems to be missing in any of them.
As for how I hold the gun, flat, upward cant,...
Forum: Factory Rifles
My dad had an accidental discharge when I was a kid.
He was fond of going into my bedroom, and picking up my 45 and dry firing it without checking the breech to see if it was loaded.
I warned...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I just got a model 94 , pre 64, near new, and when I load it, it loads fine, but on cocking of a live round, it sends the loaded case stright up like a stove pipe.
At times, the loaded case will...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
What I am making,, well, I have a Smith&Wesson Model 34 kitgun with 4 in slender bbl.
One of the newer guns w/o a pin bbl.
I love the gun , but I hate the ballance, so I ordered a 3 inch model...
Just wrap a dowell in some sandpaper, and stick it in your drill press, and with some cutting oil, it will lap out in a jiffy.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have a .358 diameter hole, in gun barrel steel.
I want to ream it to .375.
Please to what diameter must I drill this hole in order to do a finish ream to diameter .375.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have a 3 in heavy barrel caliber 38, in the white.
Barrel only. I want to hot blue it.
I am not a gun blue guy except for cold blue a few times.
Can anyone tell me what I could get from...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
I read one time that bullet lube was not a lube at all, but rather it is a sealing liquid, that helps to prevent hot gas blow by when the burning powder pushes on the bullet.
Bullet lube is also...
Forum: Our Town
I'll be happy to take it, I cast with zink/lead when ever I get enough to fill the lead pot, and I need some tin can shooting bullets in the 9mm.
Keep yur mould clean, and ...HOT, and be patient,...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Thanks a lot, I live in Washington State, so I will contact him by mail, with SASE.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have an old Lyman 48 to fit Winchester model 70, and it needs a screw to fit the windage knob assembly to the main arm.
This screw is small ! And I have no idea where to get a replacement....
Forum: Casting Equipment
I cast outside, on the back porch, and only under a little breeze, and if there is no breeze, I set up a fan.
I never never cast in any sort of closed place ! NEVER !
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Caster oil.
I read an article about it in a model airplane magazine the other day.
Caster oil, is the primary oil used in 2 stroke engines.
It has a very high flash tempature, so it does...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Humm... zink in Wheel weights again.
Shrug..
I have cast at least 100,000 bullets, over the last 40 years.
I mean, I don't like zink wheel weights, cause they are a pain to cast, but I have...
I used to own a Beretta 92.
I used the lee 120 grain, in a 6 cavity mould.
It worked fine, and I was quite pleased.
Alloy was ww air cooled, and the powder charge was 4.2 gr bullseye.
I...
25 caliber bullets.
humm..that is a though one.
Probably the reason why no one answered yur question..
Truth is, I simply gave up on anything below 30 caliber.
Here goes.
RCBS 100 grain...
That is one lovely rifle...
3oo H&H I think that buggar has a short neck, but I cant see it in my mind..
Keep the bare lead of bullet away from the powder charge, so you cannot seat them below...
Don't yell at me fellas, but years ago, I simply loaded 9mm right into the 38 super magazine, and pumped them thru the 38 super barrel.
Pop pop pop.....
I still got all my fingers... Not...
With cast bullets, about all cases like 2400.
It is the GO TO powder for cast, when all other powders fail.
Keep your cast bullet rifle velosities to about 1800 pfs.
Were I to have only 4...
I used to have about 300 baloon head 38 auto factory loads.
The really old stuff, copra nickle bullets.
After they were fired, I simply loaded then as usual in my 38 super.
Truth is, if memory...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
I remember reading in the NRA magazine 30 years ago about high velosity and paper patch bullets. They cut special moulds that had lube type grouves on them, this to hold the paper securely.
They...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
You might just consider a 6mm mould from NE, or RCBS ( If RCBC has one ).
Weight between 100 and 120 grains.
OK, why a 6 mm mould..?
It's easy to get .
And it is about 10 thousands undersize,...
Forum: Special Projects
Er aah...
Not that I would suggest this to anyone..
I used to shoot ar 15.
The powder was 4831 GI type. 55 gr bullet.
To get a good push from the powder, I used to put x grains or so...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I shot myself in the head with my 44 remington cap and ball once.
I was shooting into old catalogs, with a board behind.
The ball passed thru the catalogs, bounced off the pine board, and plop,...
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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 |
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