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Thank you, M. M. Wright, I've been using these buffers for a few years and they do cushion slide battering. I'll try the new ones made of silicone now. The ones I have are made of some sort of fiber and don't stand too long.
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Thank you, BigSky56. I'll check on the requirements to have this product exported to Brazil.
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Thanks, Catshooter. I think I'll try the glue gun in an old .38 SPL mould I no longer use. I'll hunt for the how-to in the Cast Boolits site.
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Chuck,I found Red Dot to be more heat-sensitive than other powders. When shooting out in the open, spare magazines on your person exposed to the sun will cause substantial burn rate differences. This does not happen when it's cold (~ 65F is cold down here). This is a very warm country and Red Dot do...

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Joe, no Win 231 or HP38 is to be found here. I have to make do with the local stuff. I still have a pound or so of old Unique and some Red Dot, and no hopes of inventory replenishment here.
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Rusty, is the glue bullet made of the glue used in hot glue guns or silicone?
Thank you,
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Thanks, Joe. My Unique is the old type, I have the Hercules book and your information is the same as mine. I think I'd better cut back on the charge or switch to the "standard" 225 gr RN bullet.
Best,
Antonio

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Thanks, Hobie. That RCBS bullet has two lube grooves, I cast it at BHN 22-23, no leading at all. My lube is an antiquated and very hard beeswax + carnaúba wax + beef tallow + graphite mix. The bullet should accelerate faster down the barrel than your jacketed bullets, so I'd expect slide reaction to...

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Two questions: 1 - My favorite .45 ACP bullet is the RCBS 200 SWC. It weighs 208 grains in my alloy and I push it with 7.2 grains of Unique for 1,000 fps, roughly. The slap is very satisfactory, and it is an adequately accurate load. However, some wizard at the range warned that the 1911's slide fli...

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I have had Colt 1911 magazines loaded for as much as 20 years without suffering a bit of "wear". Even the Norinco 213 mags were loaded 10+ years without a problem. But, not all springs are created equal. A military friend inherited a 1937 contract Colt 1911-A1 when his father - also an Ar...

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John you are absolutely right. There are too many factors involved to make powder comparison a linear task. I will begin conservatively, and increase the charges progressively. Since I do not intend to produce a load that will straighten out the rifling in the gun and flattten out the landscape, rea...

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earlmck, I fired only one shot from the Contender and found the thing quite unpleasant. I fired the remainder from my 24" Puma 92 and from my Redhawk, and all cases cracked. What you said is true. I agree in that my brass may be too brittle. I put the rest of that lot away for a while and am pl...

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biggfoot44, our local powders serve most rifle calibers, and all handgun calibers. However, the manufacturers do not publish loads for 300 gr cast bullets. Thus my question. I tried empirically once and hit the wall. Once burned, twice shy...

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John, those are Brazilian powders with similar appearance and burn rates to their American counterparts. The slowest-burning pistol caliber powder is called CBC220 with a burn rate of .97 millisecond per test unit. It is single-based, designed for magnum charges and does not yield the same amount of...

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Yes, I've had good success with 240 to 270 grain bullets using Blue Dot look-alikes. I tried 15.5 grains of this CBC220 concoction under the 308 grain bullet for very authoritative bangs and unforgettable recoil in the Contender, but all my cases cracked open from mouth to head, primers were flatten...

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Not any more, Earlmck. Only to Brazilian-made powders. I don't have Blue Dot, either. What I have is a series of look-alikes, however yielding less gas per volume unit. My go-to is CBC220, sold in the US only to ammunition manufacturers. 1350 fps with a 300-grainer seems to be quite a wallop.

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Thank you, Blaine and John, for your input.
I will start with Blaine's charge and work my way up.
Best,
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Thank you, Blaine. Can you suggest a Blue Dot charge?

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Gentlemen: I'm looking for a good load for the RCBS 44-300-SWC bullet. It weighs 308 gr in my alloy. I'm restricted to powders similar to Blue Dot and IMR 3031. Cartridge OAL is too long to feed reliably in my Rossi 92, so I intend to shoot it in my Ruger Redhawk, or in my TC Contender 10" when...

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Thank you all. The topic I am interested in contains a discussion concerning the non-transferability of energy. I'm interested in looking at the arguments.
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O.I., my version of pemmican is made with fried meat, coarse grain, lots of red pepper, pork rind, chives, and roasted manioc meal all pounded together with mortar & pestle. In a cellophane bag it will last for a couple of weeks without refrigeration.
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Gentlemen:
A few weeks ago I remember having read a topic containing posts on energy transfer, kinetic energy and a paper by a Mr. Duncan MacPhearson. I was unable to find this topic in the past pages.
Can anybody refer it to me?
Thank you,
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piller wrote:Funny, but I have never met a "Happy Athiest".

Pleased to meet you, Piller.
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"That was a rough old horsehair rope the old cowboys put around them when they slept. The new nylon ones wouldn't stop a worm." Local folklore has it that if you surround your camp with calcium carbide rocks (used for lighting purposes), snakes, scorpions, centipedes and some such will sta...

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Paul, is the Winchester 1873 what we call here the "carabina papo amarelo"?
Thanks.
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I had thousands of Berdan-primed shells. This is what I did: Removed decapping pin and rod from RCBS sizer die; Machinist made new decapping rod with hardened steel 2 mm x 8 mm tip; Resized shell normally in RCBS Rock Chucker press. This will punch out Berdan anvil and primer I thought I was stressi...

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Interesting reading on this subject is the book "Mountain Men", by Vardis Fisher. This was the book that inspired the movie "Jeremiah Johnson".
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You're very right, RR7. Brazil was the pioneer in automotive ethanol. I had several cars running exclusively on ethanol before the alcohol program fell through. I hated them all. In modified vehicles, ethanol will corrode hoses, gaskets, gas pump components and the fuel tank. It will corrode piston ...

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Wade, I shoot the Lyman 429421 245 out of my Rossi 92 often. It has a 24" barrel and I get ~1600 fps using 19.5 grains of old Blue Dot. It goes bang good and the crescent buttplate was ergonomically designed to whack and bruise my shoulder. I cast the bullets @ BHN 23, push a styrofoam gas chec...

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Thank you, Roy. I did the same for other Pumas I own that sport a receiver peep sight. I appreciate Firesights, even though I am color-blind. But I particularly liked the rear sight on your gun. I looked at Williams' 2011 catalog and it looks like the rear sight for a Ruger 10/22. I'll call them and...

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rbertalotto, please tell me what model your Williams Firesights are. I will order a set.
Thank you,
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I'm right with you there. Before we dress the animal, we wash it very thoroughly using a hard bristle brush and soap. After washing, it's time for singeing, then boiling water and a very sharp knife to shave all remaining hair off; then dressing, cleaning the cavity and finally the coals.

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Brazilian barbecue meat is seasoned with an abundant coating of coarse salt and then placed on the embers. At the time of serving, the salt is slapped off the meat using the chef knife. Portions are very generous indeed. Beef is the all-time favorite. We also roast pigs in their skins. Some time ago...

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Well, we have mostly the same in Brazil, except we peel our cows first.

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Totally OT: Barbecue, Uruguayan way:

http://www.churrasconocouro.com/asado.php

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Hobie, I've just cooked up a half dozen rounds using the cast RCBS 240 grainers ahead of 16 grains of Blue Dot. This is a little below my long-standing load of 17 grains of Blue Dot under the same bullet for the .44 Magnum load. I'm off to the range now; let's see how the gun behaves.
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Right you are, Hobie. I'm wondering whether even such a minuscule difference im rim thickness would justify the .44 case accelerating backwards enough to drop the barrel. Nothing else comes to mind. Harry may be right, too. But the barrel is like new.

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Yes, there's almost 1-inch free bore. But the .444 lateral dimensions exceed those of the .44 mag only by 0.0128 nominally - .44 mag bullet may wobble some, but enough to unlatch the barrel? Also, I noticed no gas leaks - supposing a gas leak could unlatch the barrel. But the fly in the ointment is ...

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Thank you, Mokwaw. However, the barrel is tipping open when I fire .44 magnums in it. The previous owner did not report any event of this kind using .444 loads. By the way, I also have a 45-70 barrel I've never fired. It came with the gun package, I only own 15 45-70 rounds (virtually non-existing i...

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Gentlemen: I was given a TC Contender 14-inch .44 mag barrel somebody modified to .444 Marlin. I fired this thing once and have no intention of shooting it again. I fired .44 magnum loads in this barrel - cast RCBS 240 grainers clocking 1,300+ fps from a 10" barrel. The 14" modified barrel...

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Unsolicited recipe to impress the gullible: - Cast #429244 from alloy no harder than 15 BHN; - Fill cavity with transformer oil; - Cork it up with 5/32" steel ball bearing seated while lube/sizing bullet; - Feed it 24 grains of 2400; - Load rifle one at a time. DO NOT LOAD TUBULAR MAGAZINE! - S...

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Hobie, feral pigs are pestering us too. And we're a no-hunting country. This pig was found dead in the farm, apparently after attacking dogs and apparently after attacking people too. A SWAG autopsy might suggest that the animal inadvertently intercepted the trajectory of a 158 gr JSP bullet apparen...

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I got married right before the great Christmas eve gun robbery of 2010. About the 15 of January my new wife was diagnosed with late stage Leukemia. Needless to say it has been mighty rough. Even has gone as getting charges filed for punching a doctor in the mouth as he said the same thing a bunch o...

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Yes. It's what happens when you allow concrete to climb the mountain.
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Friends,
2011 began badly. Landslides in the Rio de Janeiro mountain area have so far claimed 753 lives. 117 people are still missing, presumably dead under the mud and debris.
A tornado hit one of the area towns this morning - more destruction and death. It is still raining.
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Gentlemen, I have a large quantity of .452 bullets I would like to use in a .44 Mag. Can I size them down that much? In a Saeco lubrisizer? I don't know about the SAECO strength, but sizing .452" to .430" in a single pass may be a little strenuous for bullet and machine. I had a series of...

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Thankyou for the thoughts and prayers. When will this end? Here'a a series of frightening displays of Mother Natures power in Toowoomba on monday. This is some of the water that flowed down the mountain and is responsible for a such terrible loss in the towns below. Up to 90 may still be missing ht...

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[quote="Sixgun"]After giving this more thought, I believe the best deterrent would be to leave a couple of hundred dollars on the front seat, blast the $1,000 stereo system and give the first idiot who tries to steal it a warning shot to the head with 00 buckshot. Leave his body near where...

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Some sources quote manufacturing period between 1873 and 1919, with more than 700,000 units made in all variants.
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Rangerider, I PM'd you.
Best,
Antonio

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