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Post by apolitical45 on Jan 12, 2020 11:03:16 GMT -5
I was bored to tears when I first sat at a press when I was about eight or nine. "Why would I do all this work when I can just shoot what dad makes/buys?" was my thinking, I suppose. It turns out that maybe they just didn't have me in the right chair. My wife is a saint and regularly prepares meals around my "reloading station". Here my daughter learns to load the 45 Colt. Her pronouns are "She", "Ruger" and "Bronc Peeler". In all seriousness, what are your "standard" 45 Colt loads? I like a 250gr. RNFP and 6gr. Red Dot. When casting myself I use straight wheelweights and the best commercially cast I've used has been the Desperado Bullets flat base cast of a 20:1 alloy. The flat base, the softness and the load work consistently on par with "about perfect" in every revolver I've tried it in.
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Post by oddshooter on Jan 12, 2020 13:00:51 GMT -5
Bud, your lady is a keeper!
Mine would string me up by my thumbs (if I was lucky). Working with gun stuff in the kitchen is a big no no at our house. Although, if I was doing babysitting at the same time, hmmmmm?
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 12, 2020 13:43:52 GMT -5
Of all the stuff I have tried in the old Colt cartridge I have come back to a standard primer 6.0 grains of Bullseye 250 grain air cooled 20-1 Heavy crimp
Deadly on rocks and nutria rats out to 100 yards.
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Post by apolitical45 on Jan 12, 2020 14:08:27 GMT -5
Bud, your lady is a keeper! Mine would string me up by my thumbs (if I was lucky). Working with gun stuff in the kitchen is a big no no at our house. Although, if I was doing babysitting at the same time, hmmmmm? Prescut I generally do my sizing, priming and expanding in my recliner or even bed. The table is where the measure is clamped, so it's not as intrusive as it could be. I have a 20x20 shop, but busted my back up something fierce. And you ain't kiddin' cousin, she's a keeper! The girl next door. There was one house between us. She moved in when I was five and she was seven. Her parents still live there. I am 41 and she's been my best friend for 36 years. There are many good stories, but I'm pretty happy with the one she and I are writing. She has a Ruger P345 on her at all times outside the home and it's her car gun, has a SCCY 9mm as a diaper bag gun, chose her own AK74, stuck with it and loves it. She downright stole my PPK .22lr, a very early Manurhin because it "matches her truck"(?). She not only stole my LCP over ten years ago, but is now demanding a 22lr model. We were gun people in Portland, but it's become an absolute lifestyle since we moved here in a way I didn't understand. The Mrs. seasons her potatoes with H110 these days and I'd swear there's a hint of Titegroup in the marinara.
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Post by apolitical45 on Jan 12, 2020 14:25:19 GMT -5
Of all the stuff I have tried in the old Colt cartridge I have come back to a standard primer 6.0 grains of Bullseye 250 grain air cooled 20-1 Heavy crimp Deadly on rocks and nutria rats out to 100 yards. That load has been a winner forever. I really ought to try that load next to my Red Dot load. I'd bet they're nearly interchangeable. I used to shoot nutria on Hayden Island in The Columbia when I was a kid in the '80's. I'm glad we don't have them in big numbers in Klamath County, but they were a lot of fun to go after when I was young.
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 12, 2020 15:40:55 GMT -5
I will bet those two loads are near exactly the same. My most memorable Nutria rat, I was fishing in a river boat (small aluminum flat bottom with 5 horse motor) on the Guadalupe River here in Texas. I was carrying a small, double barrel 22 magnum Derringer (I was 15, so the reason for a pocket rocket) and a pocket of about 30 rounds. While floating the river at night with carbide lights, I saw a family of Nutria swimming the river and started shooting. I ran almost all the ammo I had out of the little handgun and lost a lot of my hearing and never hit a rat. Then, stupid me just being hurt over my pride, I turned backwards in the boat and at about 40 yards shot at one sitting up on his haunches. Danged thing just fell over and started kicking. Couldn't hit water from the bottom of a river at 10 yards, but oh yeah, 40 yards and I am good. Dumb luck.
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Post by apolitical45 on Jan 12, 2020 17:40:49 GMT -5
I will bet those two loads are near exactly the same. My most memorable Nutria rat, I was fishing in a river boat (small aluminum flat bottom with 5 horse motor) on the Guadalupe River here in Texas. I was carrying a small, double barrel 22 magnum Derringer (I was 15, so the reason for a pocket rocket) and a pocket of about 30 rounds. While floating the river at night with carbide lights, I saw a family of Nutria swimming the river and started shooting. I ran almost all the ammo I had out of the little handgun and lost a lot of my hearing and never hit a rat. Then, stupid me just being hurt over my pride, I turned backwards in the boat and at about 40 yards shot at one sitting up on his haunches. Danged thing just fell over and started kicking. Couldn't hit water from the bottom of a river at 10 yards, but oh yeah, 40 yards and I am good. Dumb luck. That's good stuff. My daddy was born in Brownwood in '56. I was born and raised in Portland, OR but afforded my shooting by having access to the entire west end of Hayden Island, which is where I5 crosses The Columbia between OR & WA. There is/was a pond and a small channel to the north side of the island that connected it to The Columbia for about half the year and we shot carp and nutria there for the most part. An obvious thing was to shoot the carp in the day and then the nutria or raccoon feeding on the carcasses at night. When I was 10 years old it was completely normal to take a backhoe and a 10/22 and do whatever I wanted, right in Portland city limits. 30 years ago or now, I can't imagine OR has anywhere near the nutria population TX has.
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 12, 2020 19:34:26 GMT -5
Our part of Texas has waned off on nutria populations. Lots of ranchers don't like them burrowing into tank (pond) dams. Good practice for deer rifle season.
I like that..(A 10-22 and a backhoe and do whatever I wanted). One New Years Eve years ago, we had a bull with a bad hip. Local slaughter houses would not take him and we are not equipped for a 2000 pound animal. Pipeline crew came in and Dad had them dig a pit to bury him in since he cant breed. My buddy and I were walking the ranch for hogs and happened along the pit. He asked "Hey Trey, how come you got this giant pit dug in the brush?" (We had a lot of trespasser activity at the time) I responded "Cause you can bury an F350 and everyone in it if the need arises." He turned sheet white and nearly passed out. Even though I have invited him out, he has never come back to the ranch. I find that a very narrow minded view of the situation. Although I don't blame him.
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Post by apolitical45 on Jan 12, 2020 19:48:59 GMT -5
Ha!
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Post by bula on Jan 15, 2020 9:06:10 GMT -5
"She stole my gun because it matched her truck" . A country song right there, call Brad Paisely.
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Post by oddshooter on Jan 17, 2020 11:57:40 GMT -5
To the members of singleactions:
I was WRONG ! My post should have been a PM as well.
I post this only to take my own lashing in public, as I deserve. It will not happen again.
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Post by whitworth on Jan 17, 2020 11:59:43 GMT -5
I fully agree much of this should have been taking to PM. That said, let's keep things civil between us.
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Post by apolitical45 on Jan 17, 2020 12:21:33 GMT -5
I agree and appreciate both of your responses. Public lashings? Absolutely not! You guys are great and I appreciate concern and care, honestly. Thank you sincerely and here's to civility.
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