so waht ya doin today?
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CZ93X62
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The fire smoke has been pretty much a "constant" locally for 6 weeks+. The levels vary, today is about mid-range. 2 fires currently under way within 50 miles of me. It's getting old.
Got an E-mail notice that one or both calibers of Starline Brass got shipped; these were back-ordered about 10 days ago. (9mm and 357 Magnum) Supposed to arrive on Friday by 9 P.M., per UPS.
Got an E-mail notice that one or both calibers of Starline Brass got shipped; these were back-ordered about 10 days ago. (9mm and 357 Magnum) Supposed to arrive on Friday by 9 P.M., per UPS.
JWFilips
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Today Was perfect for the "Smelting day"
Ran 5 Batches: 3-Jacketed range scrap, 1 Commercial cast range scrap and, 1 - Mystery ingot ( with lots of Lino in them ) from a friend , and a big piece Of old Heavy gas pipe ( pure lead) and Some plumbers lead!
Each batch worked out to about 65 pounds of poured lead ingots! Man I am beat and my back is plenty sore! Not looking forward to getting up tomorrow!
This was the last batch: It was the Commercial cast range scrap along with a lot of My cast Bullet outtakes that were PC coated!
Ran 5 Batches: 3-Jacketed range scrap, 1 Commercial cast range scrap and, 1 - Mystery ingot ( with lots of Lino in them ) from a friend , and a big piece Of old Heavy gas pipe ( pure lead) and Some plumbers lead!
Each batch worked out to about 65 pounds of poured lead ingots! Man I am beat and my back is plenty sore! Not looking forward to getting up tomorrow!
This was the last batch: It was the Commercial cast range scrap along with a lot of My cast Bullet outtakes that were PC coated!
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Been catching up with brass processing. Almost 200 pieces of once-fired .223 range pick up, and a small amount of pristine Winchester .30-'06 range pick up that quickly got turned into 03A3 jacketed stash. The rest, .38, .357, .45-70, and 7.65X53 was all my stuff.
Since February, I've processed over 1000 pieces of .223/5.56, but no .30-'06. I had become so used to working with the smaller case that the size comparison between it and the .30-'06 was akin to comparing the .30-'06 to 20 mm. The .30-'06 was huge!
There's something about the shape of a .30-'06 case that makes me think it was designed by an artist, rather than a bunch of ballisticians fiddling round with slide-rules, T-squares and French curves. A shapely Raquel Welsh case versus a dumpy grandmother super short magnum case. A weird thought, I know, but there it is.
Since February, I've processed over 1000 pieces of .223/5.56, but no .30-'06. I had become so used to working with the smaller case that the size comparison between it and the .30-'06 was akin to comparing the .30-'06 to 20 mm. The .30-'06 was huge!
There's something about the shape of a .30-'06 case that makes me think it was designed by an artist, rather than a bunch of ballisticians fiddling round with slide-rules, T-squares and French curves. A shapely Raquel Welsh case versus a dumpy grandmother super short magnum case. A weird thought, I know, but there it is.
oscarflytyer
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You musta seen one of my posts elsewhere! lol! I LOVE the lines of the 1860 Colt BP!
Mitty38
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Like your avitar. That gun also has a lot of artistry to it.
Take for instance that spoon you got mounted on it. I can see why you used it for a gun ornament. It has a hole right in the middle. Defiantly not good for soup anymore. Kinda gets in the way of the sights when you have it unfolded and sticking up like that. LOL
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fiver
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yeah, that's where I talked to him all the time.
I had to enquire with one of the Mods there to get the story and they got word to Fry.
he then sent me a PM explaining what all had happened, we sent another short string then he just disappeared.
I was gonna head up grouse hunting tonight again then changed my mind and went over to where I dove hunt to maybe get a peek and see if any deer were moving through the area again.
right as I was turning off the main highway I seen a dust cloud on the entrance road like a circus was rolling through town.
it was just a few of the fire fighter guys coming back out after putting down a fire one of the farmers started outin their wheat field somehow.
the boss guy told me it burned about 450 acres, that's be good news for the ground squirrels but I know it's just gonna put all the cows over there next spring.
we just had a fire a few miles away from there 2 days back that burned about 600 or so acres, no big deal it'll just inconvenience some sagebrush and maybe a few chuckars.
I had to enquire with one of the Mods there to get the story and they got word to Fry.
he then sent me a PM explaining what all had happened, we sent another short string then he just disappeared.
I was gonna head up grouse hunting tonight again then changed my mind and went over to where I dove hunt to maybe get a peek and see if any deer were moving through the area again.
right as I was turning off the main highway I seen a dust cloud on the entrance road like a circus was rolling through town.
it was just a few of the fire fighter guys coming back out after putting down a fire one of the farmers started outin their wheat field somehow.
the boss guy told me it burned about 450 acres, that's be good news for the ground squirrels but I know it's just gonna put all the cows over there next spring.
we just had a fire a few miles away from there 2 days back that burned about 600 or so acres, no big deal it'll just inconvenience some sagebrush and maybe a few chuckars.
RBHarter
West Central AR
I like the lines of the 60s but I'm a 58' guy ......... unless you have trigger parts for an ASM 60' and a blued cylinder , I also needed either a Walker or a Dragoon . You know cause who doesn't C&B that gulps 40-50 gr of powder and gives a 200 gr Ruger 45 Colts a hard way to go every time the hammer drops . 
L Ross
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Perhaps I should have added a caveat to my comments about how straight the holes are tapped in the older guns for tang sights. That caveat would be, "When used with tang sights from the same era."
My goal this Fall is to harvest 3 limits of grey and fox squirrels with my three .25-20's. I have used a Low-Wall with a 3X Malcolm Leatherwood in the past to take a limit a couple of years ago. So yesterday I mounted a new Marble's tang sight on a Model 92 .25-20 and I needed the windage feature in the sight to get my 25 yard zero. My innate prejudice is that the error is in the new sight and not that wonderful Winchester. I really dislike the fact that the sight base rear hole is slotted instead of being made the "right way".
I did experience on disaster in the process. A couple of years ago I was at a flea market at a tractor and steam engine show and there on a table was a box of brand new, unprimed Western .25-20 brass! There was also a box of Australian .25-20 SS brass, a few assorted jacketed bullets and about 1,200 small rifle primers. I scarfed it all up and shared the SS brass with a buddy who has one in a Low-Wall. The point of this back ground was that I lost one of those new W-W brass yesterday! I hold my hand over the top of the action when I eject the fired case. The Winchesters ejection is enthusiastic to say the least. In a moment of carelessness I missed one and it sailed over my head and landed behind me in the grass and I cannot find it! One lousy but brand new case and it bugs me to see 49 in the ammo box. Sometimes I think I aint just right in the head.
I got the rest of the .22 drop data done yesterday morning, starting at 180 and going out to 225. Miraculously, the wind that had started to pick up at 9:30, died around 10:30. Little yellow leaves from Honey Locusts were fluttering straight down. That made the groups smaller, and corrections easer. Here is what I can share with you. Shooting Eley Target and Wolf Match Target standard velocity .22 ammo that chronographs right around 1,080 fps. Starting at 50 yards and going out in 5 yard increments, measured with a 100' steel tape. At each distance I pushed a large pole barn spike into the dirt and spay painted them with a white base coat and then hit them with blaze orange. My targets at hanging on 3/8" steel rod shepherd's crooks of various heights. At 50 and 55 yards the targets are 4" discs painted white with a 1" orange dot. Then a 6" disc with a 2" dot, after that I have ten 14" tall by 6" wide oblongs with a hole at the top and 2" dots out to 100 yards, 3" dots to 190 yards, and 5" dots for 200 and beyond. I have stencils made for the dots so I can repaint the targets as they get shot up. I quickly ran into an interesting dilemma. I obviously need to stagger the targets so they are all visible. Well darn it, get behind the rifle and after about 120 yards, just try and figure out which one is next. Even worse after about 160 yards. The solution was to take a magic marker and write the distance at the top of the target at the hanger hole. Thank goodness I do this on my own home range and can just jump in the Polaris Ranger to buzz back to the house to get whatever I need or forgot.
Now for the drop data. For a 50 yard zero, make no correction for 55 yards. From 60 yards to 150 yards come up .2 Mil for every 5 yards. Starting at 150 yards, come up .3 Mil for every 5 yards. That held true to 225 yards which was as far as I could go. I had to stop to move targets twice to get all the way back, and I had to repaint etc. Tedious but still satisfying work, that I hope someone else can use. I have seen trajectory charts and have printed off a couple and boy are they close to my numbers. Perhaps I simply could have relied on them, but empirical data has a certain appeal to me.
My goal this Fall is to harvest 3 limits of grey and fox squirrels with my three .25-20's. I have used a Low-Wall with a 3X Malcolm Leatherwood in the past to take a limit a couple of years ago. So yesterday I mounted a new Marble's tang sight on a Model 92 .25-20 and I needed the windage feature in the sight to get my 25 yard zero. My innate prejudice is that the error is in the new sight and not that wonderful Winchester. I really dislike the fact that the sight base rear hole is slotted instead of being made the "right way".
I did experience on disaster in the process. A couple of years ago I was at a flea market at a tractor and steam engine show and there on a table was a box of brand new, unprimed Western .25-20 brass! There was also a box of Australian .25-20 SS brass, a few assorted jacketed bullets and about 1,200 small rifle primers. I scarfed it all up and shared the SS brass with a buddy who has one in a Low-Wall. The point of this back ground was that I lost one of those new W-W brass yesterday! I hold my hand over the top of the action when I eject the fired case. The Winchesters ejection is enthusiastic to say the least. In a moment of carelessness I missed one and it sailed over my head and landed behind me in the grass and I cannot find it! One lousy but brand new case and it bugs me to see 49 in the ammo box. Sometimes I think I aint just right in the head.
I got the rest of the .22 drop data done yesterday morning, starting at 180 and going out to 225. Miraculously, the wind that had started to pick up at 9:30, died around 10:30. Little yellow leaves from Honey Locusts were fluttering straight down. That made the groups smaller, and corrections easer. Here is what I can share with you. Shooting Eley Target and Wolf Match Target standard velocity .22 ammo that chronographs right around 1,080 fps. Starting at 50 yards and going out in 5 yard increments, measured with a 100' steel tape. At each distance I pushed a large pole barn spike into the dirt and spay painted them with a white base coat and then hit them with blaze orange. My targets at hanging on 3/8" steel rod shepherd's crooks of various heights. At 50 and 55 yards the targets are 4" discs painted white with a 1" orange dot. Then a 6" disc with a 2" dot, after that I have ten 14" tall by 6" wide oblongs with a hole at the top and 2" dots out to 100 yards, 3" dots to 190 yards, and 5" dots for 200 and beyond. I have stencils made for the dots so I can repaint the targets as they get shot up. I quickly ran into an interesting dilemma. I obviously need to stagger the targets so they are all visible. Well darn it, get behind the rifle and after about 120 yards, just try and figure out which one is next. Even worse after about 160 yards. The solution was to take a magic marker and write the distance at the top of the target at the hanger hole. Thank goodness I do this on my own home range and can just jump in the Polaris Ranger to buzz back to the house to get whatever I need or forgot.
Now for the drop data. For a 50 yard zero, make no correction for 55 yards. From 60 yards to 150 yards come up .2 Mil for every 5 yards. Starting at 150 yards, come up .3 Mil for every 5 yards. That held true to 225 yards which was as far as I could go. I had to stop to move targets twice to get all the way back, and I had to repaint etc. Tedious but still satisfying work, that I hope someone else can use. I have seen trajectory charts and have printed off a couple and boy are they close to my numbers. Perhaps I simply could have relied on them, but empirical data has a certain appeal to me.
fiver
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I feel for ya, good 25-20 brass doesn't just sit on the shelf waiting to be picked up.
if you really want to feel heartbreak I could send the wife over to lose the other 49 for you, she can make my little 25-20 carbine eject to the left 9 times out of 10, and the 10th one is either up in the rafters or out in front of the firing line somewhere.
probably by the rear sight insert for my 30-30 I been looking for, for about 6-7 years now.
if you really want to feel heartbreak I could send the wife over to lose the other 49 for you, she can make my little 25-20 carbine eject to the left 9 times out of 10, and the 10th one is either up in the rafters or out in front of the firing line somewhere.
probably by the rear sight insert for my 30-30 I been looking for, for about 6-7 years now.