Boat Tails!!!

[Badger]

Trying very hard to not scare the flora and the fauna “again”.

Thank you Ed ...

Regards,
Badger

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[Edward Horton]

Ed wrote: Trying very hard to not scare the flora and the fauna “again”.

Thank you Ed ...

Regards,
Badger

“No.4 mk1 Beech Woodwork needs staining to match, any idea's?”
But I gave Neal455 my grandmother’s recipe for dying Enfield stocks with beet juice and “YOU” deleted it.

[fishb01@yahoo.com]

I continue to learn. Thank You Mr. Horton

[Bindi2]

Why is the Mk7 still king @ 1000yds. Highland 174gn BT ( privi ) run thru a die to open the base out to a Mk7 spec for those rifles that dont like BTs. The Mk7 is really an open base not a flat base. I have picked up many projectiles from the butts and can say that the open based BTs dont swell enough to have the same bearing surface as a Mk7.The flat based projectiles have to be a little larger than Mk7 to work as well

[gunner]

Mmmhh! So exquisite....... i mean the eggs! The rest has an bit of poofy touch !!! Photoshop, Ed ?

Regards

Gunner

[lngstrt]

160 rounds Prvi 174 grain .... on the way from Aimsurplus

[jmoore]

I'm thinking that the lead core in either 30-30 or 30-36 was fairly pure lead wire, esp, in the '70s. I suspect, however, the jacket thickness of the 30-30 bullets was thinner, allowing for easier base upset.

Feel free to smack me upside the head if you can prove me wrong, Mr. Horton! As long as its at least somewhat useful info, its part of the fun.

[JBS]

There is a great deal to be said for thin or J4 jackets and their ability to upset and fill the bore. The fellows that swedge their own bullets using expanded 22 LR empty cases for jackets have a great deal of luck with upset and bore fill. I just don’t need another hobby ( JOB ) of making custom $$$ jacketed bullets, casting is enough. Changing the subject just a bit doesn’t it just drive you nuts when you get a rifle in the shop that has a true, real live, SEWER PIPE barrel and the stinking thing shoots under MOA and defies all logic and physics as you understand it.

[Edward Horton]

There is a great deal to be said for thin or J4 jackets and their ability to upset and fill the bore. The fellows that swedge their own bullets using expanded 22 LR empty cases for jackets have a great deal of luck with upset and bore fill. I just don’t need another hobby ( JOB ) of making custom $$$ jacketed bullets, casting is enough. Changing the subject just a bit doesn’t it just drive you nuts when you get a rifle in the shop that has a true, real live, SEWER PIPE barrel and the stinking thing shoots under MOA and defies all logic and physics as you understand it.

I had a custom Texas .500 Smith and Wesson come into the shop the other day smoking badly, once I got the proper draft set and changed the BBQ sauce everything was “cookin’.

P.S. The barrel didn’t have any rifling left at all and was burned totally black.

[Edward Horton]

I'm thinking that the lead core in either 30-30 or 30-36 was fairly pure lead wire, esp, in the '70s. I suspect, however, the jacket thickness of the 30-30 bullets was thinner, allowing for easier base upset.

Feel free to smack me upside the head if you can prove me wrong, Mr. Horton! As long as its at least somewhat useful info, its part of the fun.

Jmoore

In the 1970s they took the lead out of gasoline and put it in our bullets.

The deer I shot with these 30-30 bullets died of high octane lead poisoning and didn’t have time to complain about bullet construction.

So you are saying the lead core in the 500 grain .458 bullet below for shooting a Tyrannosaurs Rex, a Wooly Mammoth or rats in New York City has the same lead core as the 30-30 bullet on the right ???

I thought I read that the lead core alloy also changed with velocity and bullet weight but I “might” have my bullet casting alloys filed in the wrong area of my beautiful mind.

P.S. "You may fire when ready, Gridley." I “might” have short term memory loss, long term memory loss, plus Alzheimer's, but I’m still better looking than you are.