I have been eyeballing that bullet to use in my 1937 Smith in the Auto Rim cases. Hoping the hollow base bumps up to seal the throats.
Bob
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- Sun May 05, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bear Creek Supply “shuttlecock” bullet
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1019
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Couldn't help it...........New Levergun
- Replies: 10
- Views: 796
Re: Couldn't help it...........New Levergun
Thanks for all the replies. I'll be getting to the range in the morning early if it isn't raining to officially put it to the test. I have three handloads of six rounds each all using the Hornady 200 grain round nose bullet. One using 37 grains of IMR 3031. That is a half grain less than I used back...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:41 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Couldn't help it...........New Levergun
- Replies: 10
- Views: 796
Couldn't help it...........New Levergun
In my old age I have about 3 times as much self-restraint as I did when I was younger. But for some reason I found myself without a 35 Remington rifle. So I look around at the pawn shops, gun shops, Gunbroker etc. and came to the conclusion that a "JM" Marlin was going to cost at least 1k....
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:48 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Western Bullet Company
- Replies: 11
- Views: 904
Re: Western Bullet Company
I ordered last fall and like you no answers to email or phone calls. I was told on the Sixgunner site that I should be patient. The bullets finally arrived after 2 months. Midway and Graf's and 99% of other bullet manufacturers has me spoiled.
Bob
Bob
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cheapie AR….
- Replies: 4
- Views: 468
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anybody know Iver Johnson owl head 38's
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1814
Re: Anybody know Iver Johnson owl head 38's
Your second model is about the best one I've seen inside. The third model is the ideal shooter. It will have cylinder locking notches like a Smith & Wesson. It was proofed for smokeless. Plus, the owl head will be oriented in a different direction than the 1st and second models. Bob 400px-Iver_J...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My first Levergun
- Replies: 4
- Views: 772
My first Levergun
In 1960 I got my first lever gun. I was 5 years old living in Detroit Michigan. It was a cap busting 'Rifleman's" rifle. No not a model 70 Winchester but a plastic 92 Winchester with a loop lever and a doo-Hicky on the lever to trip the trigger just like "Pa". My parents didn't know i...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Computer from the Saturn V Rocket
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1860
Re: Computer from the Saturn V Rocket
68 now but back in the day it was key punch cards and Fortran for me.
Bob
Bob
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What is the round-nosed lead pistol bullet good for?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2185
Re: What is the round-nosed lead pistol bullet good for?
The 38 Special round nose lead did pretty well in Paul Harrell's meat target. Better than the hollow points that didn't expand. Seems I remember when Bianchi cup shooters used to shoot the round nose 158 grain 38 bullet because it was easier to load with speed loaders than other styles. I have alway...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 30-30 Case Length Trimmer for .32 Special
- Replies: 7
- Views: 728
Re: 30-30 Case Length Trimmer for .32 Special
For what it is worth, the 30-30 Factory crimp die works perfect for the 32 Special also.
Bob
Bob
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Recoil as I age
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3044
Re: Recoil as I age
At 68, even after shooting twenty 243 Winchester cartridges with 90 grain bullets at 2850 fps, the recoil affects are a delayed reaction. I think that the recoil causes hydraulic shock to the nervous system that wasn't noticeable when I was younger. It is for this reason I started loading my 45-70 H...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Letters from Elmer Keith.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1194
Re: Letters from Elmer Keith.
I started getting interested in guns around 1975. It started when I picked up a Guns and Ammo magazine and was glancing through it. From the mid to late 70's I couldn't wait to read "Gun Notes" in Guns and Ammo magazine. I had to travel 10 miles to "Union Cut Rate" drug store to ...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Arisaka 6.5x50mm
- Replies: 8
- Views: 796
Re: Arisaka 6.5x50mm
Been loading for a 6.5 Jap for a month or so now. Mine has the infamous oversize chamber which from what I understand all have. I use 2 wraps of scotch tape about 3/16 inch in diameter right at the extractor groove. This centers up the new brass in the chamber so it will fireform without bulging on ...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The 'cruelty' of hunting...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1024
Re: The 'cruelty' of hunting...
At least one of those big kitty cats will break your neck and choke you to death before it eats you. I think it will?
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I’m starting to favor Italian guns
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1697
Re: I’m starting to favor Italian guns
I boogered up my Uberti Cattleman using Linebaugh's 8 grains of 231 and a 255 gr RNSP. It hammered the firing pin hole to where the revolver would start locking up because of primer material flowing around the firing pin. Probably took about 200 rounds to do it but I Had to tig weld up the recoil sh...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .35 rem vs .30-30
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1239
Re: .35 rem vs .30-30
My grandson brought his M1 Garand over to shoot. His other grandfather gave him some 30-06 to shoot in it. I noticed right away that it was Turkish 8mm Mauser. The hot 8mm. I told him if I hadn't been there, it might have been a disaster. I know 8mm Mauser ammo blew up early 03's........Bob
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:20 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hatfield family photo
- Replies: 10
- Views: 618
Re: Hatfield family photo
Newspaper as wallpaper inside glued on with a cornstarch paste blocks the wind pretty well LOL. When I was 11 the old man bought two houses for $35 each to tear down for the lumber as the Federal Govt bought them out to put in a dam. The insides were all wallpapered with newspapers from the 1930's. ...
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hatfield family photo
- Replies: 10
- Views: 618
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:03 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hatfield family photo
- Replies: 10
- Views: 618
Re: Hatfield family photo
Bob , Thank you for sharing some of your family history. I'm assuming the old homeplace seen in this photo is no longer standing ? Seems like the old double dovetail log cabin was sided later on . I really wouldn't know about the log cabin or where exactly it was located. I bet Barwood Builders wou...
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 5:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hatfield family photo
- Replies: 10
- Views: 618
Re: Hatfield family photo
Here are two pages from Coleman Hatfield's book about Anse. It tells the story of my GG grandfather and how Anse saved him from being shot by firing squad.
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 4:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hatfield family photo
- Replies: 10
- Views: 618
Re: Hatfield family photo
Here is a photo of my GG grandfather and his wife Rachel Toler. He was Devil Anse's uncle and the reason Anse and Uncle Jim Vance left the Confederate army.
- Sun May 14, 2023 8:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Why Handload?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1537
Re: Why Handload?
The only thing my old man taught me was to hit first and how to dig a ditch with mattock and shovel. What I was taught about reloading, hunting, fishing, baseball, football, or basketball by him, I could write about it on the back of a gnat's butt. Every time he would give me a 22 or a shotgun, he w...
- Mon May 08, 2023 6:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: All of You Who Live in California . . . Brace Yourself!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1116
Re: All of You Who Live in California . . . Brace Yourself!
My GGG grandfather Jim "Slater" Hatfield fought with Anderson Hatfield on the side of the Confederacy, So I will not be getting any reparations.
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone from the old Sixgunner.Com days remember John T. Slovenz?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 458
Re: Anyone from the old Sixgunner.Com days remember John T. Slovenz?
In addition to Doc Hudson, there was a "Doc O'meara" also?
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Goex returns!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 995
Re: Goex returns!
I launched off Estes rockets in my youth also. Recently I bought a couple kits and a launch kit. I had a bunch of C6-5 engines left over and gave it all to a friend's 9-year-old. We successfully launched the rockets on their farm and soon found out that a plastic Kroger bag makes a better parachute ...
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 2:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 acp sixgun
- Replies: 26
- Views: 924
Re: 45 acp sixgun
1911 magazines make excellent speed loaders for the 45 ACP single actions. Just thumb them out and let the rounds drop in.
Bob
Bob
- Wed Dec 21, 2022 2:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Has anybody handled an.....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 531
Re: Has anybody handled an.....
I picked up one of the cavalry/bicycle carbines a few years ago to tinker with. Located several boxes of Norma brass. found some dies and already had some 160 gr. .264 Sierra bullets shot fair but very high on the lowest sight setting. Also, the Norma brass has the wrong extractor groove. PPU has th...
- Sat Nov 12, 2022 7:00 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday To Bob Hatfield
- Replies: 2
- Views: 200
Re: Happy Birthday To Bob Hatfield
Thank you, Blaine. I must have my DOB wrong in my account. My birthday is December 11th............Bob
- Thu Nov 10, 2022 5:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone harvest Acorns...? (I did - pics added)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1329
Re: Anyone harvest Acorns...?
A doctor stopped at the local bar each day after work to get him a Walnut Daquiri. The bartender's name was "Dick". One day Dick ran out of walnuts, so he used Hickory nuts. When the Doc came in an ordered a Walnut Daquiri, Dick handed him one made with Hickory nuts without telling him the...
- Thu Nov 10, 2022 4:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone harvest Acorns...? (I did - pics added)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1329
Re: Anyone harvest Acorns...?
We had a Chickapin oak that beared acorns for the first time since we built the house 8 years ago. My back porch was littered with them. The wife decided she would gather them up and save them for the squirrels and deer this winter. She put them in a bucket in the garage. A month later they had worm...
- Thu Nov 10, 2022 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old Henry Rant
- Replies: 10
- Views: 706
Old Henry Rant
Watched "Old Henry".............It was going pretty well until he went and got a 94 angle eject rifle to shoot the bad guys. Lord there should have been at least a 73 lying about that set. The movie timeline could have been in the 1890's since he was Old Henry so a 94 would probably have b...
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Down in Uvalde
- Replies: 76
- Views: 5719
Re: Down in Uvalde
It is hard to believe that one of those policemen wouldn't have gone "Animal Mother" and looked back at his buddies and the police chief and said, "To heck with all of you". Or what Animal Mother said. And went in on his own. Especially if your wife a teacher had been shot.
Bob
Bob
- Sun Jul 31, 2022 6:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is anyone still shooting a Red Ryder?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 4223
Re: Is anyone still shooting a Red Ryder?
Not quite a Red Ryder but I do have a Daisy Model 25 pump that I keep in the kitchen to "Sting" the squirrels off of the wife's deer feeder (her pets). A few of the acrobatic chimpanzee type grey squirrels are eating holes into the plastic and taking the corn. I usually lob a BB out to 25 ...
- Thu Feb 03, 2022 4:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1883 Tim & Faith
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2817
Re: 1883 Tim & Faith
Dang...........Finding out Tim and Faith are liberals just ruined it for me. But after thinking about it they have to be un-conservative to get in the click in hollywood probably. The mouse phart blanks and cheesy gunfighting scenes smell like liberal to me anyway. Can't for the life of me figure ou...
- Sat Jan 22, 2022 12:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Gun Magazine 1957 edition
- Replies: 4
- Views: 969
Re: Gun Magazine 1957 edition
My GG grandfather's was Devil Anse's uncle (brother to Anse's daddy). Which makes me and Devil Anse some kind of cousin. My GG grandfather was "Slater" Jim Hatfield. Anse let him sneak home during the civil war to plant his crops and see his wife and dying sister-in-law. When he returned t...
- Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Social use of the .30-30
- Replies: 55
- Views: 8560
Re: Social use of the .30-30
A friend of mine I grew up with had a daddy who lost his arm in a coal mine we called "One Arm Cook" My friend once found a man in bed with his wife. My friend had a 22 revolver. The woman's lover had a 30-30 beside the bed. My friend shot at him several times with the 22 until the guy ble...
- Mon Sep 27, 2021 9:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My first handgun was a cap n ball ....
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3028
Re: My first handgun was a cap n ball ....
My first real handgun was an F.I.E. 58 Remington brass frame with probably a .030 cylinder gap. Paid $24.99 for it from Southern Ohio Gun Co. Inc. I could hit really good with that thing despite the wide cylinder gap. Had to mold balls from a brass mold. I shot 30 grains of 3f till I battered the fr...
- Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Its a good time to move those black guns
- Replies: 45
- Views: 4653
Re: Its a good time to move those black guns
Looks like we could convert them to straight pull bolt actions before selling them the government or burying them. Then when the law is repealed maybe someday we can replace the barrel with the welded up gas port. Or if that isn't good enough for Nancy, I'll bet someone could make a living turning a...
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anti gun businesses
- Replies: 5
- Views: 906
Re: Anti gun businesses
Whew..........Lord I'm glad McDonalds was not on that list!
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ulzana's Raid.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2309
Re: Ulzana's Raid.
I didn't like it that he dies in the end but still a very good western. My favorite too is "LAWMAN"
Bob
Bob
- Fri Feb 17, 2017 2:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Putting Iron Sights on....
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4215
Re: Putting Iron Sights on....
When I put iron sights on a rifle I don't have a jig, but I do first temporarily glue them on with a "Goop" or shoe goo or the like. Then after fiddling with them to make sure they are straight and level I then reach down in the holes and scribe the barrel where the screws will go and the ...
- Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Winchester 94 problem
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2406
Re: Winchester 94 problem
When that cartridge stop tit wears down or breaks on the link of a 94 Winchester then the cartridge in the magazine will slide under lifter when it is in the up position and you are trying to chamber a round. The action jams because the lifter cannot be lowered while the bolt is going forward. The g...
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 8:45 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Really?44wcf that bad? 223 that good.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2992
Re: Really?44wcf that bad? 223 that good.
The last two deer I killed with a smokeless gun I used a 16 inch AR 15. I used Barnes 55 grain TSX all copper hollow points. The first one laser ranged in an alfalfa field at 195 yards was a large doe and was a bang flop through the lungs/liver area (no exit) The second one was a 6 point last fall w...
- Tue Aug 16, 2016 5:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Plated - Berry superior to Xtreme (X-Treme)?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2812
Re: Plated - Berry superior to Xtreme (X-Treme)?
The Xtreme 124/5? grain flat point in my Glock 17 will all shoot 10 shots into a standard 100 yard bullseye tafget placed at 50 yards right to the point of aim (6 oclock) in a nice round group from a rest. The bullseye is about 6 inches or so. At 25 yards groups under 3 inches is easy and they are n...
- Mon Aug 15, 2016 4:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Conversion cylinder for pietta 1858
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2919
Re: Conversion cylinder for pietta 1858
I have a Kirst 45 Clot conversion for my Pietta 5.5 inch 58. I load and shoot 200 grain RNFP to get the point of impact down. If you shoot regular 250/255 grain bullets it will shoot very high. So if your going to convert you need to stay converted and adjust the sights. The newer Pietta's are suppo...
- Sun Aug 14, 2016 6:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Using .401 plated bullets in .38-40...yes?..No?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2969
Re: Using .401 plated bullets in .38-40...yes?..No?
I feel that you can only get so much friction from the thin case necks no matter how tight your dies will size the 38 WCF brass. So without a cannelure you'll have to crimp the case into the bullet to sort of fashion one if your not using black. The Extreme line of plated bullets are double plated i...
- Sun May 22, 2016 2:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Removing bullet lube from a lubrisizer
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2849
Re: Removing bullet lube from a lubrisizer
Thanks guys
I have a Harbor freight heat gun. I'll give it a go first.
Bob
I have a Harbor freight heat gun. I'll give it a go first.
Bob
- Fri May 20, 2016 8:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Removing bullet lube from a lubrisizer
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2849
Removing bullet lube from a lubrisizer
I am getting ready to mold some Lyman .401 bullets and load some 38-40 with black powder. My Lyman 4500 lubrisizer is half full of smokeless lube. My question is how do I get the lube out so I can put the SPG lube stick in?
Bob
Bob
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1970's Uberti..??
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1521
Re: 1970's Uberti..??
I was at a gunstore once and the gunsmith showed me an Italian 66 that had the bolt/firing pin extension damaged. He ordered a new one and it was completely different and wouldn't work. Not sure if anyone else in Italy made the Winchester replicas or not.
Bob
Bob
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Original 73 Winchester firing pin question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2131
Original 73 Winchester firing pin question
Hello folks I have a 73 Winchester n 38-40 that I have been working with to develop a decent shooting load. But the firing pin is piercing the primers for some reason. Could it be too long? What about the little do-hicky in the bolt that interacts with the firing pin. Could it be in wrong? I believe...