Scrumbag,
GunnyMack turned us on to the "Reloading Assistant" app for Android cellphones that instantly shows several .44 Mag rifle loads with 1700ft lb ME ratings!
Check it out if you are using a cellphone or other platform that can use it.
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- Mon Mar 26, 2018 1:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .44 Mag Rifle Load
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8534
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Neat app! For reloaders
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1276
Re: Neat app! For reloaders
Now, THAT is a GREAT reloading app! I have seen several handloading/reload apps for my Android, have tried several and kept only a few. This one is quite good. It even showed me some light Trail Boss loads for that 500 SW Magnum monstrosity that a friend asked about. It seems that he became enamored...
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Neat app! For reloaders
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1276
Re: Neat app! For reloaders
Now, THAT is a GREAT reloading app! I have seen several handloading/reload apps for my Android, have tried several and kept only a few. This one is quite good. It even showed me some light Trail Boss loads for that 500 SW Magnum monstrosity that a friend asked about. It seems that he became enamored...
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Poor ammo performance
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1895
Re: Poor ammo performance
Sounds like Lester's Ammunition. "It usually works" :P :D :lol: Yes, I have that poster - hilarious - with the bear holding the hunter's shirt in his mouth! As for me, I have kept up with reading about all of the whizz-bang high tech defensive rounds and their tests in gelatin, water, pho...
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ever feel like shooting your apple product?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2346
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Handgun Size Comparison Website Now Up
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1246
Re: Handgun Size Comparison Website Now Up
Terrific - Thanks!!
- Sun Mar 18, 2018 7:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's your favorite bore cleaner?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2262
Re: What's your favorite bore cleaner?
Wipeout foam and liquid, hands down.
Odorless, the only cleaner that doesn't bother the better half in the house.
Odorless, the only cleaner that doesn't bother the better half in the house.
- Sat Mar 17, 2018 12:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Cimarron Henry
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3190
Re: New Cimarron Henry
Great posts, and...
WOW, that is a beautiful rifle.
Talk about a Barbecue Gun!
WOW, that is a beautiful rifle.
Talk about a Barbecue Gun!
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 7:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5134
Re: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
FYi, in response to a more detailed question to Ruger via email: Their official stance allows +P factory loads for the .45 ACP, but specifically do not support +P .44 or .45 Colt loads. Here is the email reply: "Thank you for contacting Ruger Customer Service. Your Customer Service Issue # is 1...
- Sun Mar 11, 2018 6:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: FINALLY !
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1633
Re: FINALLY !
You betcha!
- Sun Mar 11, 2018 2:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: FINALLY !
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1633
Re: FINALLY !
Solar generator? Never heard of em! I don't belong to Costco... That is only one outlet of many. Here is an Amazon link showing one such model. There are many models at various prices, depending upon how much emergency power you need to store and/or use, just like regular emergency generators. http...
- Sat Mar 10, 2018 7:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: FINALLY !
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1633
Re: FINALLY !
So, because of the stormy weather - those new whizz-bang portable Costco solar generators are out?
- Sat Mar 10, 2018 3:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: FINALLY !
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1633
Re: FINALLY !
Good to hear that you are back on the grid!
You owe me 50 bucks.
You owe me 50 bucks.
- Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .44 Mag Rifle Load
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8534
Re: .44 Mag Rifle Load
Scrumbag, After you determine exactly what the safe maximum pressure level is for that Chiappa levergun(!), how about checking out the handload data in the "Rifle / 44 Remington Magnum" section of a leading Australian powder manual? http://www.adi-powders.com.au/handloaders/pdfs/130117_Han...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Google Blocks Guns
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2945
Re: Google Blocks Guns
Thanks for that info. Are you leaving California - or ? Either way - glad for you.HeadedToTexas wrote: ↑Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:29 pm I changed all of my browser search traffic to DuckDuckGo a few months ago and haven't noticed and drop in performance, but a clear shift toward what I want to find instead of what Google wants me to find.
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5134
Re: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
...It certainly IS true that there is a big gap between '45 Colt - basic SAAMI loads' and the kind of power that it seems reasonable to expect from pressures appropriate for modern firearms like the Rugers of various iterations. Certainly the reloading manuals reflect that, but the 'mainstream' fir...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5134
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5134
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5134
Re: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
Perzactly, Legs! That is plenty of whump.3leggedturtle wrote: ↑Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:32 pm John, mental enema! My friend calls it Psycological Fornication. I’ve shot 250gr bullets out of my BH at 950fps. More potent than I’ll need for around here. Todd/3leg
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5134
Re: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
Okay, Pay Attention, Please, Once and For All: 1) GunnyMack, you owe me $50.00 But you can put that money into an NRA donation, if you like. 2) Ruger's answer is still the same: Julie at Ruger Customer Service / Revolvers line: a) Ruger does not recommend handloads in my New Model Blackhawk Convert...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5134
Re: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
Jerry, I am certainly glad to help. Mack, Good advice on both counts. Ruger pressure: I have repeatedly read that Ruger only recommends 14k due to liability issues, but anecdotally they have been quoted as recommending up to .45 ACP +P ammo as the maximum power for that cartridge. Then, handloading ...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5134
Re: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
Thank you for answering, Earl. I just now sat down to the computer to pull it up; I was watching a Netflix DVD movie with my wife, "The Old Man and the Sea," the 1953 classic version with Spencer Tracy. Any reasonable .45 Colt cast bullet load will work within the 23k Pressure limit. For i...
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5134
Re: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
Great stuff, all.
Thanks!
Thanks!
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5134
45 Collt Blackhawk Convertible Max PSI
This has been discussed before on various blogs, but I don't recall if it has been handled here. And perhaps a reminder is in order for those new handloaders - certainly there are a bunch of 'em in my state, now that the crazy ammo registration laws are taking effect. My understanding from most sour...
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Google Blocks Guns
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2945
Re: Google Blocks Guns
Wow!
I am always the last one to fall for "Urban Legends" but it looks like I finally fell for one.
Must admit "My bad" for not checking this out, first.
Thank you all. Apologies to Google.
I am always the last one to fall for "Urban Legends" but it looks like I finally fell for one.
Must admit "My bad" for not checking this out, first.
Thank you all. Apologies to Google.
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Keeping your cool on the motorcycle
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9114
Re: Keeping your cool on the motorcycle
SUPER!
If indeed, after a fair trial, he is proven to be the culprit....
Get a rope!
If indeed, after a fair trial, he is proven to be the culprit....
Get a rope!
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 4:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Google Blocks Guns
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2945
Google Blocks Guns
We know that almost all of Silicon Valley and Internet related companies are run by super-Liberal, gun-hating types. I would say "Idiots," but I don't want the Moderator(s) to block or delete this e-mail, so I won't call those morons "Idiots." Now - Google abruptly decided to blo...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 1:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Neat weapon footage.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 932
Re: Neat weapon footage.
I, for one don't believe it was luck. Our economy and resources overwhelmed them, and behind that we were an "In God We Trust" nation while theirs was one of pure evil - regardless of what celebrations they held on holidays. Looking around at what a huge part of our populace truly worships...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Neat weapon footage.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 932
Re: Neat weapon footage.
Thanks, Pitchy!
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 4:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I won!!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1564
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - TV Sellin' Them Drugs - A Mind Trick
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4459
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - TV Sellin' Them Drugs - A Mind Trick
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4459
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - TV Sellin' Them Drugs - A Mind Trick
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4459
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - TV Sellin' Them Drugs - A Mind Trick
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4459
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 7:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - TV Sellin' Them Drugs - A Mind Trick
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4459
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - TV Sellin' Them Drugs - A Mind Trick
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4459
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - TV Sellin' Them Drugs - A Mind Trick
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4459
OT - TV Sellin' Them Drugs - A Mind Trick
I started noticing something occurring again and again with these new drugs on TV. I am not talking about the regularity with which they make miraculous promises, followed within a year or two by televised class action lawsuits due to discovered serious and/or fatal side effects. I am talking about ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Goex Black Powder now at Powder Valley!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 645
Goex Black Powder now at Powder Valley!
Said it all in Subject line.
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- Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Quick Review Western Handloading Guide Ed Nr 1
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1747
Re: Quick Review Western Handloading Guide Ed Nr 1
I went immediately to the .45 Colt pages and found three divisions: .45 Colt Standard Pressure, 14k psi .45 Colt High-Pressure, 30k psi ...but yet guys go freaking nuts when we talk about 22k psi 44-40 loads Sounds like an interesting manual! :) Just 8 loads for the .44-40 using their AA Nr 2, AA N...
- Tue Jan 30, 2018 1:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Quick Review Western Handloading Guide Ed Nr 1
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1747
Re: Quick Review Western Handloading Guide Ed Nr 1
:lol: Lotsa clowns here! Owing to the large amount of bullet selections and rifle loads available to these Western powders - the 30-06 Springfield sections shows 4 1/2 pages of load data - about 227 loads on my quick, non-precise count. .308 Winchester looked to be about the same. .30-30 has 56 entr...
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Desert Gold Zane Grey Download Searchable
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1683
Re: Desert Gold Zane Grey Download Searchable
In Elmer's book "Hell I was There" he did not speak very highly of Zane Grey for several reasons. I have not read it in a while but I think that's how it went. When I was a youngster, my father had a summer vacation cabin on the Rogue River near Grant's Pass. Not one of those city dweller...
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Quick Review Western Handloading Guide Ed Nr 1
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1747
Quick Review Western Handloading Guide Ed Nr 1
I just received my Western Powders Handloading Guide, Edition 1. The total price paid was $39.99 from the Western Powders site; shipping was free. This is a massive and beautiful tome, 8 1/2 x 11 inches weighing 3 1/2 lbs with 488 pgs (the last two are lined pages for notes). Part of the reason for ...
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 3:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 9mm in .357 barrel accuracy??
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3572
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 3:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 450 inches of suture...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5026
Re: 450 inches of suture...
How do the dogs pay the fines?
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 9mm in .357 barrel accuracy??
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3572
Re: 9mm in .357 barrel accuracy??
Nope. Just last week I noticed that SAAMI pressure barrels are spec'd with a .355" groove. I've likely looked at the page at least 50 times over many years but never noticed that. Pages at both Uberti-USA and Cimarron say Uberti uses nominal .355 grooves in their pistol and rifle barrels. :o Y...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 9mm in .357 barrel accuracy??
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3572
Re: 9mm in .357 barrel accuracy??
Does anyone remember the Medusa revolver? It was made on a Smith & Wesson frame with a cylinder drilled so that the spring star shaped ejector in the center could hold .357, 9x19, 9x23, .380, 38 special, 38 colt (if you could find it), and a couple other less common cartridges. Found this video...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 9mm in .357 barrel accuracy??
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3572
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 3:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 9mm in .357 barrel accuracy??
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3572
Re: 9mm in .357 barrel accuracy??
Wow - in a rifle. Then the concept of a convertible 9mm/.357 handgun sounds like a good idea. I have been similarly impressed with my .45 ACP/.45 Colt convertible Ruger SA handgun. In a situation where one might have to scavenge for ammo in times of shortage, that new Taurus double action 7-shot mig...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 3:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Desert Gold Zane Grey Download Searchable
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1683
Re: Desert Gold Zane Grey Download Searchable
You are all quite welcome. This comes about thanks to the Gutenberg free download site and the free (Donation supported) Calibre e-Book Conversion and Power PDF Conversion software. I discovered more great Western books in Kindle, pdf and other forms (many in basic text files) here. It includes many...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 9mm in .357 barrel accuracy??
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3572
9mm in .357 barrel accuracy??
Taurus is announcing their 9mm/.38 Special/.357 Magnum convertible double action revolver. Ruger Blackhawk already markets (or marketed) one in a Single Action model. I have researched several threads that talk about putting a 9mm cartridge in a .357 firearm but so far have not seen this discussed: ...