If you have smaller pests, the 22 LR Subsonics with a can on a single shot are the ticket. I bought this Rem 510 single shot with a dirt dobber ruined barrel, for $20 from a pawn shop. Cut the barrel...
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Forum: Our Town
If you have smaller pests, the 22 LR Subsonics with a can on a single shot are the ticket. I bought this Rem 510 single shot with a dirt dobber ruined barrel, for $20 from a pawn shop. Cut the barrel...
Actually the standard 223/5.56 OAL length is 2.26 so an apparent transfer of numbers in the 2.62 number.
The P mag can give you 2.30 in length due o a different method or build. So the RN and...
Forum: Our Town
Once interiors get wet, houses, cars, etc. Best to remove the interior, to the exterior surface, clean it up, on houses and other structures we use soda under high pressure to blast the wood surfaces...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Our local wild hogs move around in a feeding circle about 10 -20 miles in diameter. They eat off one area until the food supply is gone then move on. At this time the larger group is on a 130 acre...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
With 22 center fires legal for deer in FL. The 218 Bee is a great, deer in the garden, head shot rifle. A turnip eater drops like a stone.
The fiberglass poles would be strong and light weight. Dry bamboo which can be free, for the cutting, would also be very strong and light weight. If you hang a shot bag with 5# of sand below the apex...
Forum: Casting Equipment
When the Pro Melt starts leaking it is really time to clean the pot and disassemble and clean the pour valve parts. The shoulder and stem for the gravity seal gets crud on them and they need to be...
Forum: Our Town
My experiance with bed covers, several types, is thay all suck. So I just went down and bought a new Yukon XL Denali with a sealing and locking 12' roof carrier that I used when I had to carry five...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have found that the 38 Super 160 grain RN plain base hard cast in the 9mm Para case with AA #7 you can get fair results with a Tarus 92 with its supported chamber. Also found that they do make up a...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Have about a dozen primer pocket reamers, the two I use the most by mfg are the CH reamer on a hand crank that can be used with a cordless drill and the RCBS motorized on a Case Prep Center. The Case...
Forum: Our Town
Yeah, them solar panels in cloudy Florida are not so much. My front gate opener's panel would not even stay charged, so canned that crapola and dug a trench 300 ft to get to my pump house so now the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Would suggest a set of action inletting screws with T handles, These oversized screws make the repetitive putting in and taking out of the receiver metal and bottom metal quite a bit easier. If you...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
KISS, I just went to a kitchen supply store, 50 years ago, bought an adjustable wick alcohol heat burner and filled it with mineral spirits, it became a metal blackening tool.
Forum: Our Town
Only time will tell, as the proof is in the pudding, but... this buyer could be that Belgian/French bunch that has gone all over the world buying stuff and steadily dinking the poodle, with their...
Might take a look here, say on line, that they have Green Dot in stock 8# at $230 also found 1# cans at $45 but saying and doing today may be two different things.
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Forum: Our Town
Our volunteer fire Dept had a volunteer EMT Instructor as a member, that taught emergency first aid to our firemen. So as a Commissioner I took the course along with them, just because. I have done...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Seems to me that my Accurate Arms #1 manual has reloading data in it for the Old Army, with 5744 as I recall. I know I have been told many times on the range that shooters were shooting smokeless in...
Guys, the original postings were 2018 and between then and now, I understand that Veral's shop burned to the ground and he stated that he was not going to rebuilt to restart production and I...
Forum: Our Town
Wife had to go to Crestview, storm made a mess, looked like a tornado went down interstate 85 in the middle of Crestview, right through the intersection of hiway 90, took out the store fronts and...
Forum: Our Town
Woke up at 4:00 AM to one of those strobe light continual flashing lightning shows, bedroom lights up and stays lit, kind of deal, accompanied by the roaring rain and 85 mph wind, as recorded. Turned...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Not to tell you what to do, only what I do.
I have a first month 1969 bought new, production Marlin 444 rifle, not a carbine, no pistol grip. It has the micro grove riflng and is .432 groove. First...
Forum: Our Town
No big deal, just got kicked off twice, with data failure, messages then got off and came back and had a double post.....minor deal compared to being taken down. You guys do a real good job, much...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
At least is was not the French / Belgian conglomerate.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I am just glad it was not the Belgian/French conglomerate bunch the went around the world buying everything in sight and screwed it all up with their woke and communist crap.
Anyone that has delt...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I always slug every barrel, never guess, never use any GCs any more and load to 2,700 fps with no leading in rifles including ARs, and with .43" groups with the 358 RCBS 200. With the plain base at...
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 |