Getting ready for a show, Thought someone might like to see these.
A lot of the history of US rifle development there.
246786
Left to right,
Sharps And Hankins,
Spencer Model 1865 Indian...
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Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Getting ready for a show, Thought someone might like to see these.
A lot of the history of US rifle development there.
246786
Left to right,
Sharps And Hankins,
Spencer Model 1865 Indian...
AND Blammer dropped this project on me. While googling for loads for the 175g .38's I find this thread. So thanks guys, and thanks a lot Blammer.
Thanks guys. Got this in a H&G package deal.
I think I have a set of dies from my grandfathers reloading setup. I know I have some jackets.
What I dont have is a .44 gun.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Some load notes
1680 - 12 gr 247 cast NOE
1170
1151
1143
1137
Post #11
I was wrong about there being two RCBS molds, there were but there were three Lyman molds as well. :bigsmyl2:
So what does $100 buy these days?
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Just want to thank the guys here who DIDN'T go to Eds this week. I though for sure all the rest would be gone by today. But they weren't.
Ed's Gun Shop
5560 US 1 HWY
Vass, NC 28394
(910) 692-7936
http://www.edsgunshop.com/
This came from a local shop that had bought out an estate.
Lots of stuff and more molds than I got.
By the time I got there the 4 cav Lyman's had been sold.
For $30 each.
There were 2 RCBS...
Another day, another gun shop.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/usacivpol/smelting%20loading/LFP_0004-1.jpg
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Yeah, I'm a bastard.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/usacivpol/smelting%20loading/LFP_0002.jpg
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=116659
I feel guilty he didn't have four more.
The 130 shows a bit of abuse. The sprue plate had been opened with a hard object, steal hammer I guess, and it was battered pretty badly on the striking...
Trying to cover all the above questions.
I had to set my mold guide lower for this mold. The sprue does take up an inexact amount of space sometimes thicker, sometimes thinner. but lowering the...
An exparement from NOE and Blammer.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/usacivpol/smelting%20loading/LFP_0136.jpg
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
You want to rent me that trimmer for a week?:D
Cell phone rings.
It is a friend and fellow shooter whose job has him all up and down the east coast.
You still looking for H&G molds?
You know it.
I thought so, well I am in a gun shop...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/usacivpol/smelting%20loading/LFP_0002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/usacivpol/smelting%20loading/LFP_0006.jpg
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Ok, is working for me, but lets put up the main board link
http://www.carolinaguntalk.com/forum/index.php
The photo thread of range brass is in the reloading section
Forum: Cast Boolits
Range Brass disasters collected over the years.
http://http://www.carolinaguntalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=6.0
Forum: Cast Boolits
Yup, but the jacked bullet people seem to be able to do it every 3 to 6 years.
Hodgdon powder publishes new load data every year.
My 3ed edition handbook shows a copyright date of 1980.
In...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Jech.
I guess it depends on if the emphasis is on the "Lyman" part or the "Cast bullet handbook" park
Lyman has loadings listed, 340 Wby Mag for example, that the ONLY mold used is a Lee. So...
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 |