Recent content by jdownj

Lee lube cut 50/50 with rubbing alcohol, loaded in a spray bottle has treated me very well on 7.62x54( and pistol, but everything works fine for pistol...)

I have to say I'd probably pay to watch some of this... From a safe distance...

I wish I could find one of the nicer bores locally, but I'll probably wind up on the auction site

Heh... Ammo economics is a weird subject... For loaded ammo at Wally World, WWB el cheapo is $21/100 in 9mm, but $38/100 in 380.. So I really like loading this stuff!

I must not keep enough on hand... My oldest is 3 weeks:)

Heh... That could work;)

That's the truth! I really couldn't bring myself to shoot 380 at the prices for loaded ammo, but I'm gonna have to get better at recovering the brass...

There is a guy who shoots a 1911 at the range who loads pretty hot... He has something built out of PVC pipe and what appears to be some kind of fishing net... Seems to work well... I might have to try something like that...

I don't own an AR, but I use my own mags "at work"... 10 GI type mags that I sandblasted, dura coated the outside, and installed new springs/followers.

I firmly believe that it's almost impossible to kill these things...

Do all 380 weapons toss the brass wildly? I have 2 Bersa Thunder 380s and a Makarov, so I realize that it's a small sample size, but from these weapons it is a royal pain to recover much more than 50-60 percent... Time to build a brass catcher of some kind I think...

A few pics of my new M44. 1954 Romanian manufacture, wood is pretty lousy, metal pretty good. Barrel is about average, it would appear previous owner didn't understand corrosive ammo. Took it to the range this morning and it shoots well. Burned up the last of the surplus ammo I had and just...

And got a new M44... Pics tomorrow... Now I want a pre-war hex and a Finn

In 9mm I push them quite a bit hotter than cast... ~1100fps according to load data...

Heh it happens... I got my first 91/30 a while ago... Now I'm negotiating on an m44...