Mark_Mark
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Guilty! I do live in Seattle and have to blend inI’m not one of those earrings and purple hair kind of guys so, no thanks.
Guilty! I do live in Seattle and have to blend inI’m not one of those earrings and purple hair kind of guys so, no thanks.
Urban camouflage eh? Have a Bernie T-shirt as well. LOLGuilty! I do live in Seattle and have to blend in
I've been trimming down on calibers for a while.
That said, I tend to enjoy experimenting with new-to-me cartridges in a given caliber. To wit, current 7mm cartridges include 7x57 Mauser, 7mm-08, 7mm SAUM, 7mm Rem Mag, and .280 Ackley.
I have a ruger #1 and I treat it better than my guns costing 2X …. you will love how hot you can load a 45/70 in a #1I was solid, .22 lr and wmr, .223, .243, 30-30, .270, 380, 9mm, 45 colt and acp, 38, .357
then came the creedmoor’s oh and a couple of cool .32s one short one long,
Oh, I recently have been eyeing a ruger #1 in 45/70 and have had thoughts about a 44 mag as well
did I mention black powder rifles and pistols?
hi, my name is Dave, can I join too?
Seattle? Blend? Is that a coffee joke?Guilty! I do live in Seattle and have to blend in
10mm with a white Blazer and T-shirt!!!Seattle? Blend? Is that a coffee joke?
Back in the "Miami Vice" days, Don Johnson's "Crockett" made the Bren Ten and 10mm popular. Briefly. I never went for the t-shirt and sports jacket thing, either.
I'm up to reloading 31 calibers and 4 guages.
Cast bullets for: .45Colt, .45ACP, .357, .40-70 win, .458 Sharps
IF I could just find a .338 Federal, my life would be complete.
I usually buy the die and components first, then find the gun...
Everyone needs a .460! it can shoot everything 45 cal. Here is my plan… .460, 200g FTX doing 2400fps on a Long Horn!!Tell you what, this thread has strayed a bit but has been somewhat entertaining.
Been there, done that. 460 S&W.
Bought dies, 500 pieces of new brass and components. The wife walks into the reloading room and questions the caliber I was loading, saying "Gosh, those are big".
"For my next purchase" I replied............
Looking at 10mm now but with the past events, (covid,supply shortages, etc) that has enabled me having not to go to meetings and support groups.
I'm cured!...................................NOT!
Everyone needs a .460! it can shoot everything 45 cal. Here is my plan… .460, 200g FTX doing 2400fps on a Long Horn!!
I like loading big bore on a single stage. As goofy as I might sound, I take anything over 10gn of power very seriously. Visually check my charge with a flash light. One double charge on the .460 or any other big boy (45:70, 50BW, .458, 450…) It won’t be good. I still have 80 more years of life and I want to keep my hands.10-12 years ago I lucked into a 460XVR at a gun store at a fire sale price. I could not resist.
Mine has had a few 45 Colt rounds through it but I found a good intermediate load using 255 cast SWC and Unique in 460 cases.
I prefer to not shoot shorter cases in guns chambered for longer cartridges.
Up until thevThanksgiving holiday, I really never had any issues shooting shorter cases in gunschambered for longer cases. Example, 38 Special in a 357 Magnum chamber. Over Thanksgiving, my son-in-law and I were shooting 40 S&W and 10mm in my S&W Model 610 revolver. Within 20 or 30 rounds of 40 S&W rounds through the gun, 10 mm rounds would not chamber due to carbon build up n the chamber due to the shorter 40 S&W rounds.
Nothing a good cleaning would not resolve but it has confirmed my ultimate decision to not shoot short cases in my revolvers.
Not a big deal, just a reduction in aggrevation.
Back to the thread topic, to reload 460 S&W Mag, I had to set up to load 460 on my Dillon 550B as Hornady does not offer a shell plate for the L-N-L. The 460 cases are a bit different in the rim from a 45 Colt, at least when I bought the revolver.
I like loading big bore on a single stage. As goofy as I might sound, I take anything over 10gn of power very seriously. Visually check my charge with a flash light. One double charge on the .460 or any other big boy (45:70, 50BW, .458, 450…) It won’t be good. I still have 80 more years of life and I want to keep my hands.
That's not goofy, it's just good common sense. The smaller the case, the more seriously you need to take nitro. Remember, this stuff was used to move mountains!I take anything over 10gn of power very seriously. Visually check my charge with a flash light.
She said "You don't save any money, you just shoot more!"
but it has confirmed my ultimate decision to not shoot short cases in my revolvers.
.But hey, if the shoe fits..
You know what that means?here’s a confession: I have (3) sets of 5.56 dies