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Camel73

Ha, ya, if I could shoot like that all the time! I think it's luck of the draw with these things.. some slide right in the case and others I have to push pretty hard, depending on how the ball is oriented. A lotto for group size? I don't know... I guess I'll just have to shoot some more! :D So, a li...

Camel73

Ya, not sure about that even... I don't think I'll be getting those again anytime soon. I think I'll try ordering over the Internet from the place one of the guys mentioned to me earlier. Bulk and hopefully less $. Gotta check it out.

Camel73

Unfortunately no, but I would love to..

Camel73

One of these days I hope to get some fast pistol powders to play with. I'm getting an average velocity variance of around 80 fps also, now that I switched to the dippers. Nice group sizes for 50 yards. I don't think I'd be capable of such accuracy. Your pa's rifle seems to shoot very nice... factory...

Camel73

See, now that's a thinking person

Camel73

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I just came from the Canadian billboard thread... and I really needed to see this beautiful hunk of metal and wood.
Me likey... lots.

Camel73

THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST RIDICULOUS THINGS I HAVE EVER SEEN!!

Yes, I'm yelling
That's so wrong, on a number of levels... Don't get me started.
Cuz right now I wanna really swear.

Good thing it's Sunday.

... .. ...... ... K, I'm going to leave now.

Camel73

Hope your day went well fellow 73er.

Camel73

Camel73

This time I wanted to focus on the 200fps velocity variance. Case prep got special attention - all pretty much exactly the same length and weight - don't have my notes with me right now for #'s) and the neck edges got the fine steel wool treatment. Had to turn in the lee factory crimp 3/4 of a turn ...

Camel73

Lol, couldn't resist posting a pic of this teen buck when I was in town..

Camel73

Non-existent recoil, quiet, accurate and cheap to load. How can you not love that? Cat I totally agree. I'll get to the accurate part hopefully, but it's looking like not too much past 20 yard for now. That's about what I was looking for anyhow. Why pistol primers? Have you experimented with many o...

Camel73

I went and talked to a certain welder yesterday, (really knew his stuff..) who turned me on to a body work guy with some fine welding skills and equipment to work on a few things for me. Took my lever, loading gate and carrier spring to him. He was really good about it so I offered to stay to give h...

Camel73

Oh nice, I'll be looking forward to that. :D This time I was very strict with my brass, trimming them to 2.022 - 2.023", chamfering in and out and deburring with fine steel wool. Weighed them (which took a while - crazy scale) out to 136 grs + - .5 of a gr. There were quite a few that didn't ma...

Camel73

Ha, caught a deer peein in the woods...

Camel73

460!? Deer season!!??
I thought our deer were big but yours must be ginormous!!

That's a nice feeling.. looking forward to the report

Camel73

I love it when range day weather cooperates. Makes me happy just seeing that pic. Up north here it's pretty much useless to have a pistol if you really want to have fun, at least to me anyhow. Too much red tape. :x Sweet shotgun though. Careful with that 870.. could go off at any second! :wink: Love...

Camel73

Is the secret to Jenny Craig's success chopsticks? I don't think so.

Camel73

Or, you can substitute chicken and rice instead of hamburger and potatoes

Camel73

Real nice. Too nice for me - I'd be afraid to use them!

The 5" blade on my Randall lookalike (that I want to put my own handle on - too small!) has been ok. Any longer than that would be cumbersome to me for general camp stuff.

Camel73

Good for the archery stuff still I suppose... Never been cleaned under the plate. I'm too afraid I'll mess it up worse without some kind of guidance (or another scale for that matter). Again, I've been a little hard on it so no wonder. Carbon express - can't find much about taking them apart to clea...

Camel73

The fail to feeds were about 10 years ago... BEFORE I cracked it open so, I didn't do it! Ha Easy to see with no loading gate :? Jb weld is cured now so - a shaping I will go. Oh.. that crazy scale of mine? varied up to 2 grs at times!! It took over two hours to make the dippers messin with that thi...

Camel73

Only twice ever in the time I've owned this rifle have I had a fail to feed. Finally figured out what it was.. The shell hung up on the edge of the carrier spring where it's screwed in http://i.imgur.com/WVkXD35.jpg If you're not paying attention you'll think you've chambered one, but nope! Don't kn...

Camel73

I just might need bumpers on my 94...

Camel73

Ok, so this time I'm going to pay even more attention to my charge weights, case length, and seating depth and try 5 each at 3.5, 3 and 2.5 grs. The weight of the balls seem consistent at 49.5 grs (minus the scale issue). Since I'm not really trusting my scale I'll cut a couple cases to use as dippe...

Camel73

Well, here's where I have to fess up.. While polishing last week I believe i took too much off the "bump", getting the machining marks out to make it perfectly smooth. So if you're gonna mess around in there, don't file that part! Polish means polish, not file! I think it allowed the shell...

Camel73

Yup, not bad I'd say. Shots were taken from the prone position, sunny, hint of a breeze, 70ish degrees through my chronograph at a massive tree stump that I hung some paper towel on. It's not the 30 yard max I was thinking of but 20 seemed far enough just to see what these little rb's were doing. Th...

Camel73

Results are in!

Camel73

Thanks w30wcf. That's the plan.. to roll the tips on the beeswax. Only used the as fired cases. Sized would have been way too small. I didn't load any without filler. I don't want to have to worry about position sensitivity, being that I'm way under the recommended load charge. That black punch with...

Camel73

I suppose that's all I can do, wipe em around on some lube. Kinda want some lube. Lube is always good. :wink: I'm officially done my first batch of subsonic 30-30 rb's. A few years in the making ha. Thanks men. I even finished cleaning my bore today, I think. Just gotta put it back together (for the...

Camel73

Found out a couple more things.. Can't flush the ball with the case mouth, still too fat and won't chamber cuz my crimper only does about the last 1/16th of the neck. So I seated a couple at about 3/4 of the way in. This seems to agree with my crimper, as it sizes the neck portion down to .331"...

Camel73

Joe, I hope you're skinny like me cuz its hard not to go for more :o Mine's almost done! w30wcf, .... Just beeswax, got it. Are you using filler for that 4.5 gr load? I'm kinda wanting to be around the 7-800 fps area if I can. Ok loading lovers, I've got a bit of an issue.. I don't believe I'll be a...

Camel73

Ha, sure... Bullet lube stew: Chop up spuds, carrots, broccoli (stems too!), celery (leafs too!) and cover with water. Add some salt, pepper and a little butter. Start boiling. Now I throw a hunk of lean ground beef into a separate pan and slow fry while I dice onions, garlic, slice and chop mushroo...

Camel73

One thing I noticed is that everyone gave their lube a name, so here it is. AAA Alberta Beef-Bee Bullet Lube 1 part AAA Alberta beef lard 1/2 part AAA Alberta beeswax 3/4 part of some kinda cabin candle (hopefully paraffin, and only 3/4 cuz it's cold up here eh!) I really don't know what the heck I'...

Camel73

Camel73

Oh my Lord, I'm a traditional archery guy, and that is sweet.

Camel73

Oh boy, lol... bullet lube eh?
Well, got some beeswax... I see a fat white candle in the corner, and there's ham and hamburger in the fridge. Awesome! Ha

Lord help me.

Camel73

Hmm, ok thank you Griff. I've already popped all the primers, again using my bullet seating die (unscrewing the top and flipping the bullet head holder doodad, screwing it back in and putting just the pin part of my case trimmer into the cases to use with my little press). Maybe I'll just keep them ...

Camel73

Yes, thank you sir for sharing your life that day and the lives of others that enjoyed their time with you.. I fell asleep, as you were describing the chirping of the birds - listening to the chirping of the birds around me... and awoke to a very satisfying end.. and new beginning.. very nice. Again...

Camel73

Ok, ... I'm gettin excited!! LOL!! What I'm wondering about now is the fact that all my brass is mixed... 170's, 150's, 130's, 55 sabot's and from different manufacturers... Winchester, Remington, Federal... So I've read that it matters as far as internal capacities. Will I have to sort them that wa...

Camel73

Sorry, don't have any of that stuff (sizing dies).. but how about this? I unscrewed the top of my bullet seating die dropped in a ball and tapped down on a duct tape centered punch till it lightly bottomed out. Spun the punch around and popped the newly sized ball out with a push. .312 exactly. Don'...

Camel73

!!! "then had to wait at the pharmacy while the gal did some creative writing to keep the insurance happy" Wow.

That's crazy. What part of "disks bulging into the spinal cord area" don't they get?? No wonder I'm turning into a bitter old man. Cheers to you, and wish you well.

Camel73

Darn... .324 lead buck shot too big!?

Camel73

I've got moly paste in my 94 right now.. but usually it's rem oil for me.

Camel73

Prayers for you sir. Good thing you're getting it figured out with a decent dr getting you an mri. Been trying to get my back looked at for 4 years now... Can't sit leaning forward because my arms start going numb. Now my neck has been bothering me.. only 42! I think they think I'm a druggy because ...

Camel73

No excuses now!

Camel73

Im kinda funny about wanting to know how things work, and I learn better by seeing stuff done.. who doesn't like pics!? You know the 'ol saying eh.. plus, it helps me put things back together, ha. Malamute, very good.. thank you sir for the explanation. Very often I'll take a shell out - the way you...

Camel73

I try not to dry fire any of my rifles these days. The firing pin looks good to me.. http://i.imgur.com/zh9oTd6.jpg I was pretty hard on my gear as a youngster out of ignorance and enthusiasm. The stock has been broken three times. I blame the first on John Wayne lol. I seriously almost passed out. ...

Camel73

Ahhh, much better. Big difference, even without oil.

Camel73

PriseDeFer wrote:Nice work on the bolt face. Did that stop the brass confetti?

Thanks.. not really sure yet, I'll probably have to feed a box or so of bullets thru to really tell I'm thinkin. By the look of things that might not be for a bit but whatever I do with it it'll eventually get posted here.

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