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Post by jfs on Dec 28, 2018 17:51:34 GMT -5
Found a most interesting collection of home made bullet boards. The maker is nameless but between 1956 to 58 he used a S&W M-24 1950 Target .44 Special w/6 1/2" barrel and shot his handloads into water soaked paper at 15ft.. He lathe cut 24- 30/40 Krag solid head cases that he formed and sized. Five different bullets were used. The cast bullets were made using Ideal/Lyman bullet molds. Primer`s were Rem 2 1/2 with 18.5grs of 2400 powder. The bullets were: 1) #429421 238gr HP- 2) #429421 250gr SWC-
3) #429244 258gr SWC/GC- 4) #429507 250gr LSWC- Zinc Base Harvey
Prot-X 5) Sierra 240gr JHP. The lead mixture was 20;1 while the Harvey was pure lead..... One of the 250gr LSWC was recovered from a bear...  
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Post by contender on Dec 29, 2018 9:00:44 GMT -5
Now that is a neat bunch of boards. Lots of time & effort went into those. I have several commercial bullet boards,, as well as an old MTM plastic cartridge display that I enjoy. This gives me ideas as to how to build one for myself using my cast bullets. Hmm,,, another project to study,,,!
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Post by Rimfire69 on Dec 29, 2018 9:47:24 GMT -5
That’s fantastic, there is years of shooting and data gathering to get to that point. Great find jfs, is there any way to find out more about this, or is it long gone.
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Post by sheriff on Dec 29, 2018 10:28:45 GMT -5
Interesting find, James!
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Post by sixshot on Dec 29, 2018 12:51:44 GMT -5
I tried 3-4 times to buy one of those old Speer bullet boards with the stagecoach scene in the background, never could make it happen. Interesting board James!
Dick
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Post by jfs on Dec 29, 2018 13:24:11 GMT -5
That’s fantastic, there is years of shooting and data gathering to get to that point. Great find jfs, is there any way to find out more about this, or is it long gone. |
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Post by bradshaw on Dec 29, 2018 13:44:16 GMT -5
Good catch, James. A personal experiment in expansion, archived. The difference in these pieces and a thousand others is, the author of this work made it into a PIECE, the assembled study an archive.
Dick.... believe the first cartridge boards I noticed were as a junior shooter at the Winchester factory in New Haven. The old cartridge boards were huge, dating to the Victorian era, festooned in a staggering array of cartridges, from diminutive rimfires to the long, shoulder fired black powder cartridges. And boards with flares and line-throwing shells. May have seen one or two of the Winchester boards at the Cody Museum.
David Bradshaw
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Post by jfs on Dec 29, 2018 15:58:45 GMT -5
Thank`s guy`s........ Here`s some other boards hanging in my home..... The main reason for getting the Winchester board is that I used three of the handgun bullets to take game. The .44- 240gr LSWC-GC, the .41 210gr JSP and the .38 158gr JHP....   I made the bottom board to remember HHI. Has the HHI patch and my ID card along with a facsimile of a Colt Python which is the handgun I used to take my first critter....
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Post by wheelguns on Dec 29, 2018 18:49:24 GMT -5
That is some cool stuff there!
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