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The entire assembled mag with all parts is considered a mag. The mag bodies on high cap and limited cap mags is in some cases the exact same with the baseplate, spring and/or follower being the difference. California has been dealing with the mag thing for years and as I said CA residents are...

You'd be good up at Angeles Ranges, Burro Canyon and there're some guys that do these get together things and rent ranges through calguns.net. You can also jump in your car and drive to the desert/BLM and have at it, just don't set anything on fire. I doubt any of the indoor ranges would allow...

Steel Horse: That's perfect, I didn't think of that. Do you think I can get away with slicing open the bore butter tube and storing the butter in baby food containers or something like that, or will it go bad? I have to practically stand on the tube to get it to come out. Zeke: That's good...

I have bore butter and since getting ballistol really don't use it. I've heard this can be used as a patch lube? How would one go about doing that? Melting some and dipping the patch through? Or just rubbing it on by hand? Regarding the ballistol deoderant, I think the market might be...

Patch and ball it is. I have a credit over at Midway, they have .10, .15, .18 and .20 patches...should I start at .15 to play it safe or go with .18? Pre lubed or get them dry and put my own stuff on? Kind of a little aside but on my can of ballistol it says can be used as a patch lube does...

So I have this nice hawken, trying to figure what load to start off with. I'll admit I only have experience with cap & ball revolvers... What would you guys go with for an all around load? Ball or bullet? It's a T/C with 1 in 48", 50 cal. Not looking to slay a dinosaur, this'll be mostly...

If I were in a situation like this I'd completely disassemble the mags, grease the parts, stash them away somewhere then buy tens for range and other public use. It's still sideways but the silver lining is you aren't putting miles on your original mags. To the best of my knowledge...

Hey guys wanted to give a quick update. Got an el cheapo bore light and Iosso bore paste from Midway. The iosso should be similar to the JB from what I'm reading. Anyhow I shone the light down the barrel before doing anything and it looked great. Removed the bore butter, hit the barrel...

All of this with gun seizing in NYC and magazine registration and etc...I think my head's going to explode. 15 years ago I could imagine them maybe whittling down one's ability to purchase semi-autos and such but when people would say, "Watch out, they'll be knockin soon!" I'd always roll my...

I think in order to accurately calculate twist you need to determine (or imagine) how many times a ball would spin over a given distance and in what direction. I believe I read most Piettas are 1 in 38." I doubt they're progressive twist. If a given groove starts at 6 and finishes at 9 by the...

FYI the Cabelas in Hamburg, PA has a bunch of the FN 5.7 ammo on shelves as of 12/7.

I've read the steel used to make pietta revolvers is fairly soft my firearm standards (although I'm sure adequate for cap & ball). I'm curious if anyone knows what grade stainless they use for their revolvers. Offhand I know they're quite a bit more expensive when compared to their standard...

Hey thanks all for the advice. I hit it with some CLP and patches, dried it, then coated the bore in bore butter. Let that sit for a few hours and went at it with a bronze brush and CLP. Believe that loosened up some residual crud as the patches came out blackish. Probably not the best sign...

My father just handed down to me a TC Hawken Cougar. He said he bought it in the late 80s, shot two deer with it that season, cleaned it then never touched it again. So I'm thinking it's going to be a basket case by now... Much to my surprise the thing is beautiful. Not a speck spot or...

I'm not sure if the twist in .22 hornet will throw a 50 grain.