Homemade powders, from weakest to strongest, near as I can determine:
Golden Powder
White (Starch) Powder
Crimson Powder
Screened Black Powder
Puck & Corned Black Powder
Pyrodex
BH 209 / 777...
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Forum: Muzzleloading.
Homemade powders, from weakest to strongest, near as I can determine:
Golden Powder
White (Starch) Powder
Crimson Powder
Screened Black Powder
Puck & Corned Black Powder
Pyrodex
BH 209 / 777...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I use those same screens and based on where the powder stops at, I classify it like this:
2FA (Cannon Grade) 10
1FG / 20
2FG / 30
3FG / 40
4FG / 60
5FG /110
Not sure why I got a 110 screen...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
1977, Lee Loader for .38 special. Later got one for .45acp and .44 special. Didn't have an actual press until 2015, didn't cast until 2019
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Its far easier to reprime a Boxer Case than a Berdan case, true enough. Provided you have Boxer primers.
Consider that it is far easier to make a Berdan primer than a boxer primer. Its just a...
Forum: AirGuns
I still play with BB guns and I'm 66 now.
Of course, nowadays they tend to be PCP full auto jobs, but they are just upgraded toys.
This is when I went back to cap& ball. Percussion caps are even more scarce - but I can make those.
I won't make centerfire primers until there is some way I can either buy or make the two metal...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
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Marbles, Ball Bearings, clay beads, bullets that someone else already shot, even your airsoft beads, just 400fps faster. 3000 rounds on Amazon are $17.
When I go to the range everyone...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
What current smokeless powder would this be considered an equivalent to (for load purposes)?
Between the Ammonium Nitrate and the Charcoal, it sounds like this should be corrosive AND smoky?
Forum: Muzzleloading.
The style of the grip, and how big these are, actually makes them comfortable to shoot with heavy loads in them. I put 80 grains of real BP in my Jukar .45 once - range master thought the gun had...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
That looks like a Jukar pistol - I have several, most of mine are .45. I have them from .32 up to .65. I have made several batches of powder that didn't work out so great - but with these you just...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I still have two vibratory tumbers - I have seen these re-used for both tumble lubing, and powder coating but in these cases doing it by hand only takes about one minute so I don't see an advantage. ...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Thank you Shady Grady. 30 Lb of 30+ year old shotgun powder was a gamble but I rolled a 7. With my new habit of duplexing powders this will last beyond forever.
Forum: Our Town
I just bought an electronic powder scale measure from them a few days ago. Not here yet but I think it had already made it out of the state.
My Lee Perfect Powder measure ......isn't. I had it...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I was at my FFL doing the DROS on a .44 mag CVA Scout and a guy came in with a S&W 629 and an ammo can with about 300 factory .44 mag rounds. I offered him $800 for it all and now its mine. This...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have all four of the Lee 9mm molds that come in 6 cavity versions, in fact I even have three that make the bullet in question - a 2 and two 6's. Same issue with all of them, and I got them from...
Forum: Cast Boolits
After reading all these I am now wondering just how thick my powder coat actually is. I may make up a batch and tumble lube them and see how that goes.
Forum: Cast Boolits
This design must predate powder coating. It probably works fine with conventional lube but I don't shoot plain lead in 9mm and I suppose few people do these days.
Once you powder coat it, it will...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Just last night I had coffee while reloading - knocked over the cup all over the table and into a tray full of unprimed brass. So...no irreversible damage, just a big mess.
Forum: Our Town
Paypal Friends & Family is for friends you personally know - and family. It was never meant for regular business.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Put Corn Starch in the oven for awhile and it makes Destrin. Detailed instructions are elsewhere here and also on youtube. But you only need Dextrin or SGRS with Screened black powder. None of...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I now have a formula that appears to be the functional equivalent of Unique smokeless. Also one that appears to be the equivalent of Pyrodex. When I run out of all the other components I got to do...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
My 40mm die has an area of 1.98 square inches, effectively 2.
A 2" die, which as far as I know nobody makes, would be 3.14 square inches.
A 3" die, which is the size of the Woodys die, is 7 square...
Forum: Factory Rifles
CVA Scout in 44 Magnum. Still in transit to me.
Because my CVA Scout in 45-70 has been pounding me too hard, even with black powder loads. It just doesn't weigh all that much.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
The 40mm "DabPress" die that I use works out to 2 Sq In. My 6 ton press is barely enough.
The Woody's die is 3"". A 12 ton press is barely not enough.
Its kind of aggravating that the most...
Potato guns are also a thing. Problem in that case is that they are often made of PVC and then overpressurized and ...fail
Bowling ball cannons deliver something like 28,000 Ft-Lb
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 |