The advantage of being able to shoot 32 ACP is not like backing to the grocery store when you have a choice. It's like eating the pickled herring sandwich that is all you have to eat. The other...
Type: Posts; User: rintinglen
The advantage of being able to shoot 32 ACP is not like backing to the grocery store when you have a choice. It's like eating the pickled herring sandwich that is all you have to eat. The other...
As the title states, I just bought 5,000 SP primers from Midsouth, Aguila, IRC. $369.00 with tax, no Hazmat, free shipping, delivered. Just about triple the cost of what my last purchase ran, back...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Sometimes, you can't get there from here.
Although NOE, Accurate, and MP have made or still make excellent 44 caliber molds, (The 230 grain NOE is excellent,) unless you are going to single...
I had a S&W 69, but mine was a toadlicker, leaded like crazy with undersized throats and a barrel that looked as though it had been rifled with a hand full of gravel. S&W's non-reponse to my e-mail...
This is yet another silly attempt to make "something different" that not one person in 10,000 has any use for. A huge revolver only suitable for hunting, and offering little to no advantages over...
Thanks for the heads up, ohen. I ordered a 327 SP101 and it should be in my hands by next Tuesday! With tax and my dealers fee, It'll run me a shade less than $750.00 OTD Those of you with no...
IME, they are made out of unicorn horns. I have never seen one.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Years ago, I made an impact puller from a 6 inch long, 1/2 inch nipple and an end cap, using a washer to keep the cartridges from falling through. Mine only worked on rimmed cartridges, but in those...
I have 4, and owned a fifth, 3 Single7's and a 4 inch Sp101 currently. I had a Blackhawk 8 shooter, but that was much too much iron for such a small caliber. I cannot agree with Outpost on this...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hey Fred, my copy of Speer 14 shows (p. 970) 8.2 grains as max with Unique, but with 1015 fps, not 1150. Quite frankly, I don't know that you can get there from here with powders listed. That...
+1 on the 3.0 grains of 231, I have used it with a 311-008 in my post war I frame, but have not been bold enough to use it in my older, 1920's gun. 3.2-3.5 grains of Unique is also worth...
Forum: Cast Boolits
The one real drawback to PC versus LLA or 45/45/10 is that it is time consuming. If you are a high volume shooter, it adds a half hour plus per tray, versus simple tumble lube. I seldom do it...
If you get your 327 as nice as the one Greenfrog has, you'll be very, very happy. I'd love to have one but for now, they're out of my price range. But I hope Lipsey's is listening. A 6 inch 327...
^What he said. I shot a Ruger, with the RCBS 429-240 SIL Silhouette boolit over 24.0 grains H-110. I had fun.
I would start @ 3.8 grains of PP with your 311-008 clone and nudge it up .2 grains at a time to a max of 4.6 grains, stopping when I got best accuracy. I might go higher, if the gun was newly made,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
On further observation, the "new 4th Edition" is now 14 years old. quite a few powders have come and gone over the last 14 years.
For a couple of years I had a pair of goggles with a blob of lead right in front of my right eye. I was pouring some sprues back in the pot when a larger piece fell off the spoon and splashed up at...
Mine is a 1938 S/42 Mauser Werke gun, also one of the 90's imports. Mine was supposedly imported from Estonia after the wall came down, but I offer no guarantee of that info. My guess is that given...
@ BMI The rumor that I heard was that there was a concern that the plating would flake off in the bore and become copper fouling. I stress that this was a rumor, that I heard from a fellow who...
The only cast I ever shot in the 221 was a Lyman 225-646 with 10 grains of IMR 4227. I was impressed with it, 1 3/4," 5 shots, but the owner of the gun thought that was "meh." He said it would...
I heartily concur. Red Dot is sort of a secret weapon when it comes to loading the 44 Special. I load a ~230 grain NOE Button-nose, WC boolit over 4.5 grains of Red Dot and out to 50 yards it...
:oops: Whoops, typo. >.028 is correct. On the newer guns, .026-.027 is better to allow for a crush fit when reinstalling, since they have no pin. The last one I did needed the barrel/cylinder gap...
+1 Goofy, odd-ball cartridges never do much more than stroke one's ego. Being able to pick up a box of ammo at a small town, hardware store during a hunting trip when your ammo is back home 500...
I knew a fellow who kept his loaded as his home defense gun. He said he figured a 38 wadcutter in the eye ought to stop any trouble maker in his home
One of my cronies uses it in his 41 magnum. From the Accurate website download, it would appear that it is strictly a magnum powder, with loads listed for the 357, 41, and 44 Magnums, plus some 45...
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 |