My 1894's absolutely love these jacketed bullets at .431"......
Bingo. If you wait a sufficient time between coats, BLO can not penetrate any deeper once it seals the wood... That's the entire point of a...
Cosmo when fresh has a volatile hydrocarbon carrier that allows it to soak deeply into wood... Here is a test a guy did on soaking Hickory in...
That's the gist of what I said...The minimum time between coats in 'my' adage is 24 hours... Your way is saturating the wood too quickly...
Three drops at a time and then (bare) hand rubbed as far as you can go before applying more, hardly 'soaks' wood... Straight BLO dries (sort of),...
The old adage I was taught nearly 60 years ago for applying BLO on wood goes like this: One coat a day for a week, One coat a week for a month,...
Remember... Alliant specifically recommends NOT using Blue Dot with 125 grain bullets in .357 mag, and not at all in .41 Mag......
My Marlin 1893 built circa 1912 still takes a walk or two in the deer woods every year... It only gets mid-range cast loads for that duty......
No course requirements in Vermont, so few and far between for 'classes' to take...
IMNSHO, the best answer is paragraph one of post #17...
My 686-3 came with the same combat grips, and no...They are not for sale... I have seen them sell on the Bay anywhere from $175 to $400 depending...
So get a GP with a short underlug... I did...
S&W .35 Auto (aka Model 1913) [ATTACH]
You aren't alone... I am not a fan of the way the Bisley feels or recoils...
My Marlin 1893 loves 15gr of 4227 under a 165gr cast bullet...
Dad's 742 in .30-06 was a deer slayer that never wandered...But then, he never fired many rounds, and never more than enough to verify scope zero...
None of the screws on my Blackhawk/Super Blackhawk have any thread locker on them... Have not had a problem in 30+ years, and I am not exactly...
I use .310" round balls (#1.5 Buck) in .30-30 and .30-06 'Cellar Loads', and I use .360" (OOO Buck) in .38S&W, .357 Mag, and .35 Remington...
Vermont = No Vermont does not require a permit to carry openly or concealed, so there is no permit to carry...
I fired thousands of cast bullets (remanufactured & reloads) through a G19 back in the early 90's before the interwebs told me that I was going to...
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