I like cylinder for simplicity. If you want a tighter pattern, shoot steel. Even tighter? Shoot tungsten.
People successfully hunt hare , red fox and lynx with tungsten / cylinder here in...
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I like cylinder for simplicity. If you want a tighter pattern, shoot steel. Even tighter? Shoot tungsten.
People successfully hunt hare , red fox and lynx with tungsten / cylinder here in...
This is a very good crimper. I'm a bit tool-a-holic... bought one five years ago,no regrets.
https://i.postimg.cc/MHtkyYZd/Smart-box-2023.jpg
https://www.omvshop.com/shop/smart-box/
Forum: Our Town
I quote this all because I wanted to write almost the same.
Forum: Cast Boolits
This was a good reminder:
I need to update my two 3xC -battery Maglites to LED.
I LED:ded a long D-size, (maybe six batteries?) about 15 years ago and like the solid mechanical construction...
For 9 mm I use any powder that I can not fit a double charge with. VV N340 now.
I'm loading 162 grn subsonics on a Dillon Square Deal.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Silence for me.
But the cat behind the door...
Forum: Our Town
The older I get, the more often I tend to hire professionals.
A gun safe or a piano, or a motorcycle from abroad like last year. Yes pro work costs but those guys know what they are doing, have...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I've been offered a -57 Marlin 336 for almost nothing. I'm debating the brass issue here,too.
Could this work?
https://i.postimg.cc/Kz5SbX1q/Screenshot-20240117-141717-2.png
Forum: Leverguns
Still so cold weather, ( -25°C), I don't want to punish my car battery. So I have not handled the gun yet.
Brass seems unobtainum and it's bothering me. The rifle comes with 200+ once fired...
Forum: Leverguns
Yep,they are Rugers. And with the tarnished Marlin brand, I'd rather buy an honestly branded Ruger 336 or 1895 to separate it from "Remlins".
I also think Miroku makes Winchester copies. If Ford...
Forum: Leverguns
Got a box of 180 Speers from Central Europe today.
I guess this is a start, now I can at least make dummies to test the rifle action. Dies are in the shop but at least they exist.
...
Forum: Leverguns
I was going to drive to the shop today,called first. My friend is not working this week so checking the 336 is delayed again.
I'll show you a funny detail of my Aug 2017 made Remlin SBL. Someone...
Forum: Leverguns
The plot thickens.
I had basically given up on this but I asked about the serial yesterday. It is R-prefix, meaning a 1957 rifle. And my LGS just "found" a set of Lee dies. I also found hunting...
Forum: Leverguns
Thanks for the replies,everyone.
Yes in a rational sense it does.
I just happened to see that rifle, I have never seen or touched a 35 Rem gun. I do not know anyone who has or has had one....
Forum: Leverguns
And this 358212 might work as a light plinker...?
I have many of the usual 358 pistol and revolver molds. This looks like a "normal" RN.
...
Forum: Leverguns
Here is QL screen for the 358318.
https://i.postimg.cc/Pxs6Mtk5/IMG-20231225-171113-455-7.jpg
Forum: Leverguns
Yes I keep reading akout short 336 throats.
It's a long journey here where I live. First I need to leave an application for buying a rifle. That's 120 € and caliber specific. I managed to get...
Forum: Leverguns
Thank you Quack1.
We have a good selection of our local Vihtavuori powders here. I have also made "plinkers" and subsonic rifle loads with pistol powders since the 90's.
I just played around...
Forum: Leverguns
How can Buffalo Bore make a 220 work? Fit and stabilize? Or is it that critical ten grains? I could make a jig for shortening the noses, making FN:s... These blunt noses don't scare me though. I seat...
Forum: Leverguns
I made some test bullets with both molds.
Merry Christmas!
https://i.postimg.cc/dtjgqG17/IMG-20231224-212722-651-3.jpg
Forum: Leverguns
Buffalo Bore makes 220 grn for 35. Obviously not a mouse load @ 2200 fps.
https://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=638
Forum: Leverguns
Thank you for your reply, Iamashooter2.
MP is good stuff,I have a dozen molds from them.
But in this case,my existing mold should justify the gun purchase. :)
I also have this nice revolver...
Forum: Leverguns
I bought this mold in 2001, thinking 35 Whelen. I even got dies and made Whelen ammo from 30-06 brass but never got the actual rifle done.
Now, fast forward 20+ years,I was recently offered a 336...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Google took me here.
I took a pic of my first brass mold ever. I managed to contact Mr. Applegate around 2002 and he made me a heavy mold that still cycles in a Marlin 1895. This is My Precious....
Yes. And that gets easier every year because the front sight is disappearing anyway...
I re-learned to shoot everything with both eyes open in the 90's. A wide vision,no tension on face and a...
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 |