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Post by jsh on Jan 23, 2019 8:46:21 GMT -5
That's a fair start. Imagine they are skinned, look at Cornish recipes and cover with bacon if they are skinned. I have used cheese cloth with shortening or oil to do the same.
At least you are not smothering them in mushroom soup........
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Post by jsh on Jan 21, 2019 13:09:05 GMT -5
That sure is a nice collection. I would not want to guess the many hours spent on it. An older friend of mine from western Kansas just showed me a neat one. A buffalo vertebrae with an arrow stuck in it, he found it when he was a kid in the 40's. Jeff
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Post by jsh on Jan 21, 2019 13:02:58 GMT -5
Not to derail the thread. I was directed here via a 375 super mag thoughts, or even a magnum length 375. As I read and asked about such a project I was pointed towards the 41 magnum. I have found them to be user friendly along with good accuracy with cast and jacketed. I have located a slight used 375 DW. I patiently await the owners effort to give in and sell it to me.
I was late in life owning an FA. I had loan of a couple and shot several others by generous IHMSA shooters. I fought with the SW 29 10 5/8" we had visited about before, for more years than I should have. I bought a mentors 83 357. It is one of my most enjoyable guns bar none. It s fed a diet of cast 200's from an LBT mold made specific for it. It is accurate enough to use in production and revolver classes easily.
One weekend with a low turn out of shooters I ran it through P-R-U classes. Missing a total of 4 targets out of the 60 that weekend gave me high honors in all three classes.
I always enjoy your input and history lessons. Jeff
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Post by jsh on Jan 20, 2019 10:09:38 GMT -5
DW .22 experience on steel critters. Each cylinder shot its own group. Went from father to a son to me. The gun had never shot a 40. Came with lots of load dope. You started on a cylinder designated #1. From there on you changed hold on the animal in order to keep some type of center area hit. Get out of rythem or start with the wrong cylinder and it was a train wreck.
I fought with it for two seasons and passed it on to a collector of DW's. Shooting in the mid to upper 20's was the best I could do. Buddy has a long barreled single six that has scratched out 40's when planets are in alignment. The Ruger has accounted for numerous high 30's. It has also won out at a few KS-MO "border wars" to the dismay of some FA shooters.
The 32 DW I have handled and shot were fine rigs, though never had the opportunity to stretch its legs on steel animals.
Jeff
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Post by jsh on Jan 20, 2019 9:45:09 GMT -5
Rock Chucker Forster COAX Hornady Progressive (2) Dillon SDB (2)
I could never be with out a RC press, period. I bought a used one when I first started. I thought it had a lot of slop in the ram, sent it back and they rebuilt it. Still going strong. I could get rid of all the others and make due with this one press, if I had too.
Forster coax. I have had this one less than a year, bought at an on line auction for a song. I had wanted to try one for years. It may work for swaging brass, but I would not try it. Won't work with a lee type push through bullet sizer very well. The plus, no more shell holders!
Hornady progressive, they are a stout press. I use mine in a variety of ways. I can go full progressive or use it as a progressive turret press. I like the spring used to hold the case in the shell plate myself, snap in snap out.
Dillon SDB. Loads quick and easy for most pistol cartridges. Some of my loads use longer than most bullets, they will not run in the SDB seater. But for normal loads you can load a pile in a short amount of time.
The SDB is about priced out of its worth, IMHO. For just a few $ one can have a 550. My first SDB was less than half the price of a 550, set up complete in the 80's I gave around $89-100 shipped for it. My first SDB has been rebuilt three times now, all for free.
Right tool for the job or what makes a job easier is how I see it.
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Post by jsh on Dec 31, 2018 13:06:24 GMT -5
Good heavy duty filing cabinets. I can open a drawer and see all the way to the back. I use the old card filing cabinets for bullets. School lockers or gym lockers with shelves added are great for brass. I also use the filing cabinets for die storage. Keep your eyes open there are usually office supply and school districts up grading or remodeling. Buddy bought sixty some filing cabinets for $2 each. Some were fire proof and lockable. He got what he wanted and made a profit on the rest.
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Post by jsh on Dec 16, 2018 10:21:25 GMT -5
Wow, looks like a good candidate for chunking into a sonic cleaner and leaving it for a while.
Am sure others will chime in. Maybe get some flat spring stock and cut it down to fit?
I would tape off some areas and give it a coat of somthing. Drives me nuts to see guns taken care of that way. Buddy has a 97 shotgun in his barn. It WAS actually one of the blackdiamond grades at one time.
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Post by jsh on Dec 6, 2018 13:48:34 GMT -5
Been out for a while, I bought a pound to play with(which I have not done). Article in Handloader about it. Most agree it is about like or close enough to H110/296 there is little to argue over.
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Post by jsh on Dec 5, 2018 12:18:54 GMT -5
My 83 44magnum won't chamber a .430 either, at least without some pushing. So I would advise to not load up a pile of .430's with out having the cartridge gage in hand (cylinder). Or, go ahead and load a few .429's. Even then I would not load a bunch.
The cylinder will let you know what it wants. I have a bunch of 44's loaded that will not chamber well in my FA. There is just enough of a buldge from the crimp that it won't go. Even running it through a lee factory crimp with the carbide sized won't clean it enough to chamber.
:-) I had to buy a Blackhawk to digest the "culls".
Took me a long time to figure out why some people had so many dies of the same caliber. 357,41,44 and 45, I have dies set up for specific rigs and labeled as such. I still run a few through before each session and check before going full tilt.
I really love mine and wish I had not waited so far along in life to have and enjoy them. Money well spent, you get what ya pay for. Jeff
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Post by jsh on Dec 4, 2018 18:55:29 GMT -5
I will throw in my findings on steel. Lead, nothing new has been done or needed for a longgg time.
One gent say speed kills, well I will disagree. Steel 2's over decoys, but have seen it 30 years ago and see it today. Hunting over decoys, ducks or geese, shoot at a bird and watch the water under the critter, shot will bounce off and splash in the water. Makes no difference in 20 or 12 or payload. Enter the black cloud and other such loads. Tight choke and a square hit with my SBE or 835, it kills, but what a mess.
I had some 1 steel shot and it worked well. Hard to find anymore, if at all. Everyone can laugh, but I use BB on everything. More open pattern, more momentum so no bouncing off.
If I were starting from scratch, I would try some of the square type shots for patterns and work on getting it opened up,rather than so tight. I have so much BB and BBB I will be good for a several years. Still have some Bismuth from years ago when I drag out and old Model 12.
Also be aware more and more public upland game areas are going ALL steel shot. Jeff
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Post by jsh on Dec 4, 2018 18:30:10 GMT -5
Squirrel hunting with a pistol, one of my favorite holiday afternoon hunts. Had one of the 10" MKII and swapped it off like a darn idiot. I have since used the 32 Buckeye, SW19 and Marlin lever gun in 357. Used the little truncated Lee 120PB, no blood shot or torn up meat, just a clean hole. When the son and I hunted he was hell on head shots. I tried and would wreck the whole front end.
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Post by jsh on Dec 3, 2018 18:57:25 GMT -5
I knew about the Rugermobile, but for someone to have one of the plates! You guys cease to amaze me. That is just neat! Jeff
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Post by jsh on Dec 3, 2018 18:52:33 GMT -5
Do as you wish. I carried a double exactly one weekend. My late 70's 1100 has served me well and still going strong. My BIL has flat worn out two 1100 20 gauges and is on his third. Besides my first shot is usually a warning shot and the next two mean business,lol. Jeff
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Post by jsh on Dec 1, 2018 19:54:20 GMT -5
I have two. The first one I bought in 1983-84, it has been rebuilt by Dillon three times. I bought a second one a couple of years ago. Now I have a large and small primer set up.
I had a 450 and wish I had never sold it. Jeff
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Post by jsh on Nov 30, 2018 9:26:34 GMT -5
If you think the cylinder is cracked, put it in a can of acetone or even gas, let it soak. Then wipe it down. If there is a crack the acetone or gas will take a while to dry and keep reappearing. Poor mans magnaflux. I have done this to several Krag bolts over the past years. It works, only found one with a crack. It is obvious when ya see it.
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