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Has anyone tried making black powder from chimney dust? I swept my chimney and have some dried creosote flakes and dust and am curious if it would make good BP.
A couple years ago I bought 20 old paper 12 gauge shells at an antique store. There was a 410 in there as well. I got them out of the safe today. After a bit of online searching I found that some of these are pretty old. This is the oldest I think. Winchester Repeater. If what I'm reading...
I had a hunch that I could use these older inconsistent T7 pellets for light 20 gauge loads somehow, but of course they are too thin to just drop in the shell. I found that 1/2" cpvc fits nicely in a plastic shell, and the T7 pellet would slide into that. I cut a small piece of cpvc to match...
I was planning to shoot my '51 navy and found it with the tell-tale signs of a broken bolt spring. Looked through my parts drawer and I'm all out of trigger bolt springs. I think it was Hawg that said, in a pinch, you can make one out of a safety pin, so I gave it a try. After few cuts...
Several years ago I bought 10 boxes of these slugs to use in my 12 ga H&R Ultra Slug shotgun. I don't hunt deer with a shotgun anymore. Only reason I did was I used to hunt in a shotgun only county. Thought I'd sell these slugs so researched their value. They are not in stock anywhere, and...
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I've heard there are accuracy issues with some of these Rossi 243s, so trying to peak accuracy with hand loads. I dropped a 95 gr bullet into it (1.112 inch bullet length) so it would contact the rifling, then dropped a brass case (trimmed to 2.035 inch) and closed the action to see how far it...
I ordered several parts including a trigger spring and hammer spring for an old Classic Arms Snake Eyes pistol, and the hammer spring broke on the first hammer pull. I noticed a bit of rust in the hard bend of the spring, and that's exactly where it broke. Called them up and they sent out...
Several folks have mentioned packing grease in the frame to protect the internals, but how do you do it? Remove the trigger guard and press in from there?
I picked up a set of used dies at a nearby gunshop yesterday, in an RCBS green case. They were from the estate of a man who had been reloading for 50 or so years. Only RCBS die was a neck sizer for 243 Winchester. But there were 2 more dies that weren't RCBS. One is a bullet seater and the...
My CVA Optima V2 pistol was just too hard to hold still without a rest, so, I did this. Great tree stand and woods gun now. FarrowTech makes the buffer tube adapter.
A lot of c&b enthusiasts, including some who enhance and modify c&b guns for profit or fun, continue to repeat an internet myth regarding the modification of a frame with a loading port, specifically that it qualifies the modified frame, and subsequent use in any configuration of cartridge or...
I just received my rcbs die set from Brownells marked "F L Die Set 7.62mmx54R Russian" with p/n 29001, but the dies inside are engraved "7.62mm RUSS FL-20". There is a note inside saying that the "7.62x39mm" sizing/depriming die comes with a .311 expander installed , but a .308 expander is...
Help me remember the best fix for when a cylinder locks up, and won't cycle, when caps are on the nipples. The cylinder cycles fine without caps on it, so the caps are impeding a full reset and bolt drop unless I let the hammer pop the caps. I used a dowel to hard seat the caps, but didn't...
...and a pewter nose cap? Was there such a thing? I know there was a big bore mountain rifle that meets that description, but the guy selling this rifle got all pissed at me for calling his a CVA Mountain Rifle. LOL. Hell I could be wrong... Good price though!!
If anyone is interested, you can download a CVA catalog from 40 years ago, here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/r5ca2pqbvq5xxxl/CVA_1980_Catalog.pdf/file
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