Greetings BCBulldog and Welcome about.
My experience with Ultra-sonic cleaners is this.
I rebuild and repair Pocketwatches. Been at it for 20+ years. I was taught the Old School method of...
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Greetings BCBulldog and Welcome about.
My experience with Ultra-sonic cleaners is this.
I rebuild and repair Pocketwatches. Been at it for 20+ years. I was taught the Old School method of...
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I recon my ALL out FAVORITE is my old Marlin- Ballard in 38-50. Well balanced and easy to haul about the ditches hunting those pesky ground hogs. A 150 gr pure lead boolit ( Ideal...
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This is tough... CC my Taurus Titanium 41 mag ! 5 shot 4" barrel.
Other.. my Mauser Broomhandle Flatside (1903) with Matching shoulder stock 95%.
Mike in Peru (4 days)
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If you think ot is hard up NORTH there you should try Southern Peru.
In 2.5 years I have found and bought 346 SP primers at an average of 9 cents a piece and happy to find them. To...
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The NRA Fact Book has a section on ballistics,stability, rotation... does get real DEEP... simple easy and I enjoy the book.
Mike in Peru
Good morning THANKS kg42. That is Great info to get me started. I am not surprised the Author used 5744 with the cast load.
runfiverun... No barrel yet. I will have to see when I get Up North...
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Anyone stuffing cast boolits into this cartrige ?
I will be headed North soon a figured this is a good time to start gathering info.
Mike in Peru [smilie=2:
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My 788 .243 is my prime coyote tool. It is deadly out to 250 yards. The only dogs we have up NORTH there in eastern Illinois are those who get lost out in the woods or wander the...
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The crimping die is easily shortened to accomidate shorter brass. Bench grinders and little later polishing can quickly remidy manny inconvienances.
Mike in Peru
HE is Risen !
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I like that... "A dictionary wrong"... Mrs. Kennedy (my 9 th graded English D.I.) would have fricasied my hide publicly had I even thought that. She was brutal !
She could...
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One pound of powder will not make any boolits.. ya need LEAD.
For my silly answer...
Mike in Peru
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I have a 44-40 down here with me and for the 205 grain boolit I use 8 grains Unique so I would think that 7 grains would do nicely.
Unique is an EXCELLENT powder for these old pot...
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When I am up htere I use Acc#5 for most my calibers that you show. Meters good out of my 20 year old Dillon and I think works as good as anything I have tried. Granted there are some...
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My old Speer #10 has the info on page 401-403.
As I remember the biggest problem is the rifling gives the shot that rotation and the faster the twist the worse it gets. Without...
Unless you have a pig sticker on the end... then it can be an expensive spear to.
So if-en I only git one each and I am a re-loader.. I go with the Taurus 41 Mag Titanium 5 shot and a 41 Mag...
Down here in the SOUTH it would have to be my old big ugly Colt New Service 44-40. Riding about on the desert [smilie=2:it sits just fine onder my belt / waist band . With a 205 grain near pure...
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So some basic Questions need addressed... What size are your cylinder throats ? What size is your boolit ? What is the inside diameter of a fired case? What...
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296 is a GOOD one... I use it alot in my 41īs for mag loads. I have not used it with a 140 in 357 simple because I do not shoot 140īs... I generally am launching cast or some 158 SP.
My...
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Just a note on the Dillon 550... I use mine for most my reloading. 1984 I won Illinois State revolver AAA 79/80 ( I missed the first chicken ! Forgot to fire a fouling shot). That Dan...
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I am normanlly over at the Cast Boolits area... but here we are today.
If you do not have any reloading Manuals I would start there. Get a Lee and a Lyman. If you are...
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I am on the other side of the BIG BLUE !
First Item is what powders do you have available...
Is this for CAST or J thangs ?
God Bless you... Mike
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I have never sized .204 brass... BUT some brass does get longer due to the reshaping it goes through. One thing you want to be sure of is that you are not moving the shoulder towards...
Good morning Looks like all sorts of loads for revolver using Green Dot... FrEE is the magic Word ! Looks like about 500 rounds of free descent loads in 357 !
God Bless you this New Year !
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My 1973 Lyman only shows the 90 gr....
Shows starting loads of 5 gr Unique 10gr 2400 11gr IMR4227
Me I would drop one grain and load. These look real...
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Youy may have already checked these items... BUT have you slugged the barrel and the throat area ? Of the two the throat is THE most important as the boolit has to...
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 |