On the ASSRA forum, a guy made one of those #7s up from a Rodney Storie casting set and wrote it up, with photos, as it progressed. He also wrote it up in a series in the ASSRA Journal. It turned...
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Forum: Single Shot Guns
On the ASSRA forum, a guy made one of those #7s up from a Rodney Storie casting set and wrote it up, with photos, as it progressed. He also wrote it up in a series in the ASSRA Journal. It turned...
Forum: Black Powder Paper Patching
In a word, no. Unless, of course your gun is damaged, decrepit or otherwise marginal for the caliber. What are you shooting?
The Sharps Co. designated their cartridges by caliber and length of...
Forum: Casting Equipment
What does the top of the blocks look like?
Your upper alignment pin and hole looks unusually close to the top edge of the blocks. I’ve seen this situation before in moulds that have had some of...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I put the picture I’ve taken on my computer, go to Shrinkpictures, follow the instructions, reduce it to 600 bits (or whatever it is), download the reduced pic to my desktop, come back here, bring up...
They were very advanced for the time. You put the bullet into the chamber, followed it with a primed, loaded case, screwed the top on until it stopped turning, squeezed the lever, screwed the top in...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
At gun shows, most of the Ideal tools I see that are lacking boxes, instruction sheets, perfect finishes, the powder scoops and depriming/belling punches, but having little or no rust and with the...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Certainly it has value. How much depends on condition, provenance, matching serial numbers on extra barrels (indicating the set was factory made, rather than cobbled together aftermarket), and...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
You may need to increase the dimensions some, depending on the size of your mould blocks, but here's a drawing for a sprue plate I made for a #4 Ideal tool. I think the stock was 1/8" thick.
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Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
It’s Herter’s knockoff of the Pacific boolit sizer-luber. Worked sort of like the modern Lee, mounted on your reloading press with a plunger rod in the shell holder, except you turned the knob on...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Is that rifle missing the trigger and mainspring?
Another vote to redo to .25-20SS. The shells are out there, if you look for them.
The Rapine moulds I have are stamped with a number that is a combination of the nominal diameter and the nominal weight, like your example. A couple are in their original boxes, otherwise I wouldn’t...
That “SB” mould with the lazy “S” was made by Steve Brooks. That’s his trademark.
The aluminum one in Picture #6 is likely a Rapine mould.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Mine isn't exactly "old;" I relined a Stevens 44 with a 0.226" liner (originally for the Model 90s made in .22WRF, IIRC) and chambered it with a .22WCF reamer I got at a fire sale when the Hartford...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Rocker:
I load 7 gr SR-4759 behind the Ideal 257420. I imagine a jacketed bullet of similar weight would do as well.
Riceguy:
I think you would be ahead by getting a new barrel in...
I treat aluminum moulds like nuclearcricket describes. A thin layer of carbon, whether soot from a lighter or candle, or a spray-on mould prep composition, retards the heat transfer out of the mould...
Forum: Our Town
I'm always amazed at the Stuff you manage to unearth on those eight little islands. I go all over the Southwest and can't find some of that Stuff.
Your friend saved you the expense of buying a...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
This one is kind of cute. Mostly aluminum construction; folds down reasonably flat, clamps to anything 4" thick or less and actually has compound leverage. Works with any snap-in shell holder and...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I read somewhere that when Winchester started making the 1890 pump .22, there were proposals to make a slightly larger version for the small rifle/pistol cartridges of the 73 and 92 models. The...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I had a Remington-Hepburn .38-40 that had a ring and bulge about 4” from the muzzle. The rest of the rifling was pristine.
I couldn’t get it to shoot for sour apples, whatever loads I tried. ...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
That’s a good experiment.
I’ve never taken the boolits out to measure, but I have a set of Lachmiller dies in .44 Spl that undersizes the shells enough so that when the 0.430” sized boolits are...
Forum: Military Rifles
Rifle and Handloader used to be interesting because they allowed a lot of amateur experimenters to send in articles for publication. (Sort of like what’s done in forums On Line now.) Under Scovill,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Occasionally, for no obvious reason, smokeless powder starts to decompose (or, to be more accurate, the natural tendency of the nitroester groups on the cellulose to come off and begin to attack the...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Green Mountain still advertises them. I think they have a 16” rifling twist, versus the 19” twist of the Shiloh barrels.
On the Historic Shooting Forum, the late, great Distant Thunder wrote up a...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I would imagine that there are complexing agents in most of these new cleaners that will pick ferric and ferrous ions off metal surfaces without dissolving the base metal. Of course, bluing and the...
Over decades of scrounging and accumulating boolit moulds, I see only very occasional Modern-Bond mould blocks without their handles, and only a couple times have I seen Modern-Bond handles without...
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 |