Soooooo,
A friend and I are about to start rolling our own snake loads. We'll be loading for .38 Special, .44 Magnum, and .45 Colt.
The plan is to order the kits from Sage's Outdoors with the...
Type: Posts; User: Potsy
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Soooooo,
A friend and I are about to start rolling our own snake loads. We'll be loading for .38 Special, .44 Magnum, and .45 Colt.
The plan is to order the kits from Sage's Outdoors with the...
I had a set of Magpul's on my Eclipse Target that a buddy of mine had stipled. They were grippy, but would chew on a shirt.
Back in the fall, I bought a Dan Wesson Specialist with VZ's and hated...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
So I PC'ed my first batch of .38's and .45 Colt's this week. The Powder Coating process and the end result went well (I believe thanks to Smoke's product and the info I gleaned here).
I do have a...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I've PC'ed a few for the first time this week.
Smoke's Signal Blue and Jet Black.
Ziplock Triangle 5 Tub, Black .25 gram BB's, picked them right out of the tub.
The Blue did VERY well (my opinion,...
As much as I wanted to love the 358429, the Lee 358-158RF outshoots it in my Mod.15 (both over 4.7 grns. Unique).
I'm sure Lyman's lovely .355 front driving band doesn't help. I've the 429421, the...
George S. Patton is one of those folks that the more you read about him, the more fascinating he is. There are not currently nor have there ever been many like him.
Patton wasn't without his...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I'd get a blued one, as the brass framed units appear to have brass (or brass colored) buttplates. My .45 Colt BBS has a nice, thick, rubber recoil pad. The blued Henry single shots appear to have...
Forum: Leverguns
My BBS carbine .45 Colt is awesome. Had it for about 2 years. It really needs to get shot more.
I did file the lifter just a touch to get it to feed 270-SAA's, and I need to grab a regular sized...
Had decent luck with Trail Boss. Didn't sandbag it, but once I figured out the hold on paper, they all hit a 12" gong at 20 yards, which was better than I was expecting (5-1/2" Ruger Bisley).
Sized...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
I've ran 50/50 of whatever brand forever.
Finally got in 12 sticks of BAC the other day. Guess I'll find out........
Forum: Leverguns
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Didn't recover any bullets, so not sure on the gas cutting.
Not sure if that batch was heat treated or not. I've got a batch that I heat treated a while back. Gonna try to give them a...
If I hit the powerball tomorrow, I'd likely ditch all the brass I have and buy 1000 new Starline cases for everything.
As it is, Remington, Winchester, Mil, etc. is "good enough".
I will say...
Back around '03 or '04, I was playing with my bisley and W-296. Hadn't been reloading long and was still trying to find the hottest thing out there for everything.
Found some data somewhere for...
Forum: Leverguns
Whew! Changed computers and for the last year and a half haven't been able to log on here! Finally fiddled with it again this morning, and, somehow, I'm back!
Anyhoo, back in January of '19, I...
Forum: Leverguns
The question that keeps lingering in my mind is what are folks trying to accomplish by loading the .45-70 to capacity in a Marlin Levergun? Not that 40KPSI loads are a waste of time. Not at all. ...
Might to a little searching around for some older threads. Used to be a fellow named .44Man (think he got banned) that had a BFR .45-70 and posted about it on occasion. Not that I always agreed...
Frog,
I must have seen "Death Hunt" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" at an entirely too young and impressionable age.
I've always wanted a New Service. I'm not even wild about the way they feel. ...
Forum: Leverguns
I guess another question might be, as ridiculously expensive as Winchester and Marlins have become, why do they not include the tube option in addition to the loading gate?
It's bound to be...
Forum: Leverguns
Looked in Cartridges of the World (didn't have any .30-30 cases laying around). .006" difference in rim diameter between a .30-30 and .45 Colt. Can't imagine too many problems there.
Dad has a...
I have though about buying a New Service in sorta rough shape in some sort of .38 or maybe even .44 caliber, boring everything out to .45 Colt, have the gun restored and reblued.
A spendy project,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I chronographed a few loads when I had a 16" Trapper. One thing I figured out was that most loads that weren't extremely low pressure (like 5 grains of Clays and 200grn SWC), would gain 200fps over...
Forum: Leverguns
I want a .45 Colt Levergun. I had a '94 Trapper, and while it had some shortcomings, I liked it. When Winchester quit making '94's for a while, I relegated it to "safe queen" status, and eventually...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I've wanted to try Black Powder in my Ruger Bisley .45 Colt lately for some reason. Wanted to see what the performance ceiling was.
Was thinking 3F Swiss, 350's, Starline, 270SAA, SPG, drop tube,...
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