When your Lyman electronic scale acts wonky.
When your RCBS 505 acts finicky.
And your Lyman plastic scale freezes.
You dig out your old Redding scale with hydraulic dampening!
This thing...
Type: Posts; User: Remmy4477
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
When your Lyman electronic scale acts wonky.
When your RCBS 505 acts finicky.
And your Lyman plastic scale freezes.
You dig out your old Redding scale with hydraulic dampening!
This thing...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Unsure if this is where it needs to be? Long, but here it goes.
Back in the late 80's me and my dad were always messing with military rifles, 1917 Eddystone's, Mosin Nagants, 03A3's, Mauser's,...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Great video! Loved the exploding can of soup! Icky brand anyway!
Outpost75, DaveM thanks for the info!
Did two casting sessions over the weekend. Started up the pot and set the mold on the rim to heat up. First two casts, not so great but after that the boolits...
Forum: Our Town
I don't know?
I've seen a lot of company's merge, or sell out with the promise nothing will change for the consumer or employees, then six months to a year later everything is different or gone!
...
Forum: Our Town
I use evaporust on some of the antique kerosene lamps I deal with.
Quite a few have iron bases and iron or steel stay bolts, almost always rusted.
I put the parts in an old sealable coffee can...
Just received my first brass mold. Accurate 43-215C.
Some say patina it before casting some say just start using it as is. No gun stuff in or on the stove, per Wife! Ok will start without the...
Forum: Our Town
Ran across this the other day.
Very good tune!
I think about this quite a bit anymore!
https://youtu.be/eatNbYfypXs?si=AHaTDn0DtqfaZRQN
Forum: Our Town
We dropped progressive years ago, no accidents or claims, kept going up each month! Hence the name progressive!
Currently Liberty mutual, 3 vehicles, ones a classic so we're around that $2400 mark...
Digging through our boolit molds I found this Lee single cavity 90344 mold.
Casted up fifty of them.
Came out at .430 and 240grns with my salvaged lead.
Tried google and duckduck for the...
Questions.
Body diameter? I would like the boolits to drop at .429 so do I order the body diameter at .429?
Bullet alloy? Range lead? As far as lead goes here, a little of everything from hard...
Forum: Our Town
Snow?!!
Have not made an appearance to our local cowboy silhouette shoots since captain tripps.
So I have been itching to attend.
Sundays the shoot, Birthdays the same day so I thought that...
Forum: Our Town
We really need a "like button"! some real great responses.
At 15 my first job was baling hay and farm upkeep. Rough, hard and at times filthy. Three hours a day after school and all day Saterday,...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Well the new to me rolling block carbine arrived Friday.
Interesting carbine. Came with a bunch of paperwork. It was relined by a gentlemen out in Ma who does a lot of rebuilds for the SAS crowd,...
Forum: Our Town
Sadly 6 years ago the company could not find drivers. Their solution to the problem, raise the starting wage to what the senior people are making. So now everyone, new hire and senior people are...
Forum: Our Town
Yea the YRC deal was bad! Have quite a few friends who are struggling after the shut down.
I was at NW back in the 90's when they shut the doors, that was a bad time!
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I believe that was regarding the Springfield Trap Door rifle in 45-70.
Forum: Our Town
Got scammed right before Thanksgiving last year.
A whole $10 with a USPS money order.
I buy and sell antique lighting as a hobby, sold an original lamp wick to a guy, sent me a postal mo for...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Hoping so, that 43 spanish carbine with full bp loads kicks quite hard. My #1 sporter in 45-70 with a 34 inch badger barrel weighs just under 12 pounds. Is fun to shoot and don't beat you up. Bugger...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Well with everything going on with friends and family in our world I took a break for a bit on Friday.
Was looking around on gun broker when a seller listed a spanish rolling block carbine that...
Forum: Our Town
Colorado, no reminders. Wife and I are still good for two years.
Wonder what's everyone's opinion is on the Lyman 427666 mold?
I've been using the 42798 since I was a teen in my 44-40's and for the most part have had real good results. Most of the time loaded...
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 |