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- slugging my barrel - The Firearms Forum
AR guy - the best cheapest and easiest way to slug a barrel that I use is to get a pure lead fishing sinker a little larger than your bore and tap it thru from the breach end with a wooden dowel Do not use steel or any other metal for this Remember that you want the softest purest lead you can find and sinkers are usually pure lead
- Linotype Lead Mixture - The Firearms Forum
I would try 50 50 to start (1 2 pure, 1 2 lino) Linotype runs 21-22 BHN and pure lead is around 6 So a 50 50 alloy will be around 14 BHN which should be good for any handgun bullet I've mixed up a lot closer to 10-12 BHM for all my handgun shooting and as long as the bullets fit the barrel, leading is minimal
- Lee Hardness Tester Review Use | The Firearms Forum
(Reserving the pure Pb for BP obsolete hunting bullets Figure I'd use a Lee Hardness Tester to adjust the mixture Downloaded some good info over at the Shooters Forum Cast Bullets on lead hardness but cant seem to find much technical info on the Lee tester
- The Quest for Herret Grips - The Firearms Forum
Anyway got me a couple 5” light guns and wanted flat type grips on them Found that Herret made 1911 style grips for them at one time but were out of production So I paid $100 for a new set When they came I was happy with them they made gun feel like a 1911a1 Further research found that they also had made grips that were pure 1911
- Wood Stock care - The Firearms Forum
Latest a Remington 513T made in 1940, no dings or scratches but some embedded oil and darkening from handling Cleaned with pure paint thinner, dried, first two applications were 50 50 mix of BLO turpentine to get into wood and grain followed by one coat of 25 75 turpentine BLO, and finally straight BLO Quite satisfied
- 45-70 reloading - The Firearms Forum
Hey guys, I just got back into reloading a few months ago I started loading 45-70 partly because of the accuracy, mostly because of the cost I have a Taylor Co, Uberti 1885 High Wall I loaded some 300gr Hornady JHP with 36gr of IMR4198 @ 1650fps The accuracy was excellent at 50yds (50
- Homemade Case Lube - The Firearms Forum
The case lube was easy to make I used a small travel spray bottle, 99% isopropyl alcohol, lanolin that I bought from etsy and a dilution calculator You can get all this stuff on Amazon I guessed at the volume that would fit in the spray bottle at 90mls and first used a 10:1 dilution of
- Well after a long haul I finally have her in hand
After email mix ups and FFL mix ups I finally have my Western Fields 880A (Colt Courier) in hand Very nice condition Better than the pictures Beautiful 😻 I can't think of a better celebration then picking up a new rifle four days before Donald J Trump takes office ️🇺🇸 I'll get some new
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