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milton

I live outside of Birmingham and though the cost of living(thankfully)is not too bad here it is not a place I would choose to live if I could control that.South of Birmingham near Hoover and even further south is better but the traffic is awful!If I could choose a place in Alabama to live it would b...

milton

That is an awful shame John,I do hope things work out well for you!The next thing they will be banning is conversations like this via the 'net which I hope does not happen!

milton

Thank you very much! I do wish they would add some powders!

milton

Sounds like a typical Ruger double action to me.If you are used to the reset of a Smith revolver do not expect the Ruger to be the same.You have to move the trigger finger all the way forward to let the Ruger trigger to reset and when you change from a Smith to a Ruger you have to really concentrate...

milton

Ya know if you can't find time to test that old revolver you could probably send it down here and I would gladly run your test shooting ,say for the next 10 or 15 years!!

milton

I did not think about changing the O.A.L. but when I did and recalculated the pressures noted were more in line with .357 pressures which is OK.
Thank you for your information! hey,you don't still have that old S&W do you?

milton

Joe,thank you for your noted experience! I did state in the original post that the load was shot from a pre 23 which is the 38/44 Smith.I guess I used the wrong seating depth(o.a.l) in QuickLOAD and will look at it again.
What did you shoot these loads from and what sort of brass life did you get?

milton

I love taking reloading data from publications and working them up on QuickLOAD to see how they compare.Recently I saw an old Elmer Keith load posted for hot .38 special.The load consisted of a Lyman 358429 (173 gr.) with 13.5 grains of 2400 for 1,409 FPS from a 6.5 inch Smith pre model 23.When I lo...

milton

Beautiful country! Thank you for posting!!!

milton

Thank you very much! I guess being older I do not trust many things in various programs so I do measure each bullet I load especially the seating depth . I just thought you had a list of errors in bullet lengths.

milton

I don't think this update will help me as the powder changes noted are not used by me .If I can ask,what is the bullet length errors y'all are talking about? I would like to make a note of this if it will cause problems down the road.Thank you!

milton

Yep! Back when I worked as a geologist for a lime company the kiln operators had to shoot kiln rings (calcium oxide in the flame of a kiln mixed with the silica in the coal fuel produce a constricting ,hard ring in the kiln) with a no. 8 industrial Winchester gun.Though the original gun was a single...

milton

That must be the low calorie version!!!!!

milton

Well,all this sounds good to me! I will try some loads out next week.Thanks fellows!!!!

milton

I do not have a problem sorting the stuff I am just concerned that the small primer will not give me a load comparable to large pistol primers.I guess I can try some loads and see how they perform.

milton

Any of you folks that reload 45 acp load any of the cases with small pistol primers? Have you noticed any accuracy or performance problems with the smaller primers?

milton

Thank you very much!!

milton

John,just out of curiosity what is the diameter of your flaring tool and what is the diameter of each bullet type? I have had the same problem you are describing with another round and I found out that I had to continue flaring the case but I had to turn the flaring tool down in diameter to give me ...

milton

Thank you,thank you,thank you! that just about sizes things up to my original question--the Marlin it is,at least in my situation!

milton

I do already have a set of spare parts for my Rossi and it has been worked thoroughly so that so far it has been a very reliable carbine.I do know this is sorta like comparing apples to oranges but in this case all I own is an apple and an orange.The Marlin is about 50 years old and is as slick as c...

milton

Sounds great!!!

milton

Thanks everybody for the help!!!!! The Marlin it is then!

milton

Assume you are going to be away from your home for three months or so staying in a good hunting cabin.The weather will be moderate with max highs 85 degrees and max lows 25 degrees in the time span quoted.The largest game animals available are wild hogs and small whitetail deer. You have a choice of...

milton

It sure looks like chicken of the woods! if it is a bracket type of fungus,that is it grows directly on a tree then it is not poisonous,at least one to kill.Is the flesh soft ,how does it smell?Try a very small piece to taste to make sure it is not full of some noxious chemical. The ones that kill u...

milton

Man,that was close! Glad you are OK!

milton

That is great to know,I have destroyed two different pullers and their collets trying to pull everything from 32 H&R to 45 ACP. Actually the rounds that broke my bullet puller in half was some 32 H&R that a friend had loaded and I broke down.I will have to see about buying one of these-Thanks!

milton

HAPPY HAPPY Birthday!!!Thanks for all your help!!

milton

That's great info on watermelons,now how do you determine a yellow meated watermelon? I haven't seen one of those in some 50 years!

milton

How's about MacArthur Park - Richard Harris ?

milton

Beautiful country and photos,thanks for sharing!

milton

Thank you very much for your work! I use a lot of Unique and what you show for lack of position sensitiveness is very interesting.I will have to store that information away for future reference.I wonder if Universal and Unique show the same relative relationship in handgun cartridges.

milton

Why don't you try some of the Birchwood Casey Brass Black product.It may not look like case hardening but it will not be as bright as the brass itself.

milton

Thank you very much for your reply!If quickload does what you describe it is indeed a very powerful program.Please understand I am not implying that the program is not capable of what you describe. You present a very understandable description of internal ballistics,a nice read. I also found your we...

milton

Well,it may be right but I have seen chrono numbers that show a higher velocity with cast bullets and a lower velocity with the same load and jacketed bullets.There may be something else to consider because the loads that were measured were not evaluated(seating depth) as one can experimentally do w...

milton

Just out of curiosity I ran two sets of numbers for 38 special and it appeared that QuickLOAD does not take into account possible velocity differences between jacketed and cast bullets. Experience has shown that cast bullets have for the most part shot to a higher velocity than jacketed with the sam...

milton

I agree with the others concerning the shorter round,why don't you trim back some 38 special brass to the length you are looking for and try it out?

milton

GREAT setup !!!!

Not one of the "dots" but a powder that I really like is 800-x but it runs through my measure like corn flakes.Your system should handle it very nicely!

milton

Mainehunter: Thank you for jogging the grey matter so I could use this program!

milton

I just checked the powders you asked about and did not see a single one listed on 3.9! I also could not find sr4756 !
There is a wealth of information available at your finger tips but the powder data is somewhat dated.

milton

Thank you! I am not getting an error message as you stated and I have tried running the program as an administrator but no go.I will check the virus program but probably will call NECO later. Update !! I disabled Avast Virus protection,launched the program and it launched just fine.I re booted openi...

milton

Well I have tried again to load the program;it loads fine but the .exe will not launch.I loaded the program on someone else's computer running XP sp2 and had no problems!Apparently my 64 bit Windows does not like this 32 bit program!

milton

Thank you,I have already tried that once ,I will try again!

milton

Well , I finally received my QuickLOAD cd,loaded the files to the HD and clicked on the Quickload icon to start the program.It appears the program is trying to start but will not start!I am running Win7 Pro,suggestions???

milton

Thank you both very much!! I am going to try and order the software in a week or so and I will let you know how things work out!

milton

Gentlemen, I have been able to put some money together and would like to buy the latest QuickLOAD software.Is now a good time or should I wait for possible changes or large updates that might be down the road?
I wish to thank you both again for previous help in this regard.

milton

It is great that the surgery worked out so well for you! Hope you heal soon.

milton

Does he belong to you or is he wild?Beautiful animal!

milton

You have a .38 Military & Police (Postwar) "Pre model 10).With the S prefix serial no. your revolver was probably produced in 1945 or 1946.Excellent .38 Special Smith!
This information is from Standard Catalog of Smith and Wesson,3rd Edition,Supica and Nahas,I might add.

milton

Thank you!!!!

milton

Thank you very much,I just saved that for future reference!

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