Greetings Bluebaiter 222, I think you have identified the simplest fix in installing a higher front site but there is another way. You may be able to use hand loads to sight in the rifle. I suspect...
Liked On: 06-06-2020, 11:10 AM
You need a special die to open up the first part of the neck to seat cast lead. Also shout yourself a copy of the Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook. Its all in there. Grandpamac.
Liked On: 03-06-2020, 11:53 AM
Greetings Oxfordkeith, Welcome aboard. If you have not already found Bumblefoot's thread under Hunting "Resurgence of the Old .303" you may wish to have a look. Lee Enfields may be the new AR15,s....
Liked On: 02-06-2020, 06:15 PM
You need a special die to open up the first part of the neck to seat cast lead. Also shout yourself a copy of the Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook. Its all in there. Grandpamac.
Liked On: 02-06-2020, 08:45 AM
Greetings All, Now in Level 2 and a few jobs finished so it was time for an old duffer to go for a short walk in the Kaweka's. A gentleman's hours start saw me walking through a patch of Douglas Fir...
Liked On: 01-06-2020, 03:39 PM
Greetings Kiwi Sapper, I think that you have 3 and 4 correct as a lot of the case stretching happens when full length resizing. Also agree that 5 should become 2 as you don't want cruddy cases in...
Liked On: 01-06-2020, 03:00 PM
Greetings Moa Hunter, Not quite. The primer backed out of the case just means that the pressure is not high enough to stretch the cases. I have not noted any leakage with backed out primers. We are...
Liked On: 31-05-2020, 09:11 PM
Greetings Moa Hunter, Not quite. The primer backed out of the case just means that the pressure is not high enough to stretch the cases. I have not noted any leakage with backed out primers. We are...
Liked On: 31-05-2020, 08:02 PM
Greetings 40 mm, I did a little bit with cast bullets over 40 years ago with limited success (due to my profound ignorance at the time). I am thinking of getting back into it. I still have a couple...
Liked On: 31-05-2020, 07:52 PM
Thank you Bumblefoot and Cordite, Yes it is something rather different isn't it. In spite of the rather unique stock I find it comfortable to shoot and the trigger (also altered) is quite...
Liked On: 31-05-2020, 07:18 PM
Greetings Rated M for Magnum, That case will separate next time so bin it. You can see a shiny bit of case just in front of the belt. This is the solid head of the case. The rest of the case looks...
Liked On: 31-05-2020, 05:45 PM
Close Gyp, What actually happens is that the force of the firing pin hitting the primer and the primer going of shunts the whole case to the front of the chamber. You can often see this with sub...
Liked On: 31-05-2020, 04:32 PM
I have a thing about the weird, wacky and wonderful. These qualify. Grandpamac.
Liked On: 31-05-2020, 03:14 PM
Greetings Rated M for Magnum, That case will separate next time so bin it. You can see a shiny bit of case just in front of the belt. This is the solid head of the case. The rest of the case looks...
Liked On: 31-05-2020, 02:51 PM
Greetings Rated M for Magnum, That case will separate next time so bin it. You can see a shiny bit of case just in front of the belt. This is the solid head of the case. The rest of the case looks...
Liked On: 31-05-2020, 01:26 PM