Groovy Mike
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i mean I just fill the CASINGS all the way FULL of bullseye... 9 mm, 223, 308, 50 bmg... all of it... just fill em to the top, JAM a bullet in em, and SHOOT!!!!
ROFL!!!! NOT REALLY.... I still enjoy life... AND my face, fingers, and firearms all in ONE piece!!!! ROFL!!!!!
um no - that was a joke folks. 9 mm = 4 grains of Bullseye, 12 gauge = 17 grains....YMMV. Use the load books..... Red Dot works good for both too.
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How about buffering buckshot with #9 shot or finer?
The name for that is a duplex load. It has its uses.
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I know two guys associated with prepper shows on TV. What I have learned from their experience is that what shows on TV is BS. What makes to the air is so edited chopped and glued back together it does not resemble what was actually happening. Some "scenes" are shot over several days and you get a few seconds from one day played right next to another days clip...., and TV is for ratings - the more fringe and entertaining you are the more airtime you get. If 2 people are saying the same thing and one is calm and reasonable but the other is waving their arms and wild eyed - the wild man gets on TV. So even if what was said makes sense, it comes across as stupidity. And oh yeah - even the wild man loses camera time to any hottie - even if she has no idea what she is talking about.
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I'm also wondering what's the downside of using imperfect/not-so-round buckshots. does it affect trajectory or accuracy or penetration? see i got my hands on these small oval-shaped lead weights approximately the size of buckshot but only oval. maybe i can just plop these things straight into the shot cup and never mind making OO buck from mold.
Before you melt them up, try a handful of shells loaded with them on the patterning board. They might work just fine for a given distance - say home defense ranges as compared to 50 yard fly by shooting.....
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Stack washers is my standard anti-demon round.
Stacked silver dimes is my standard anti-demon and werewolf stopping round.
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Use whatever you can get cheapest
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i have a recoil pad made by someone, it doesnt fit ak stocks, which is why i bought it. will post measruements eventually...\
I'll take the recoil pad!
got it - thanks
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Mike, in all the years I've known you I've gotten good advice from you in spite of your being a Yankee which I forgive you for without your even asking because I know it is not your fault.
When I was 10 years old, my parents sold our home in NY and were closing on a house in NC where we spent our family vacations. The buyer in NY backed out and declared bankruptcy pretty much destroying my parents' finances. They were forced to back out of the closing on the house in NC and we have lived in NY ever since. I was disappointed and sometimes wonder how life would have been different had we made the move..........
Of course our friends in NC told me that I would always be a yankee no matter what. They explained "Just 'cause a cat puts her kittens in the oven, don't make 'em biscuits."
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Others will tell you that the sky will fall if you follow my advice. But I follow the lead of my reloading mentor who has been doing this for 40 years and it has been working fine for me for 20 years....
Most here will tell you that I am going to blow mself up - but I use the cheapest primer, hull, and wad in any combination I happen to have on hand. I only pay attention to the powder charge and shot (or slug) weight in the load books and ignore everything else. It works for me. Your mileage may vary.
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And then we have to see if they will hit anything!
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They are talking bout rifles, not shotguns.
So who is the best source of Veprs in 308?
Aint worried about a few bucks more interested in reputation.
Centerfire systems has them for 599. A few folks from here have bought from them.
Hey Groovy, read it again
Well shoot, SOMEBODY was talking about shotguns!
Thanks.
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Mike, thanks for posting the chart, I've used it for some time. Was there something specific you wanted to show? If so, I don't want to miss it.
I was posting it to show how my BBB steel shot (.19 inches diameter) compared to your .31 diameter bearings. Looks to me like they are about "O" buck.
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I'd just go to the bench and get the next can of Rem Oil, or G96, or WD40. Failing that motor oil ought to work just fine. As a side note when WW2 soldier Hiroo Onada surrendered in 1973 his Arisaka rifle was working just fine after 30 years in the tropics using coconut oil.
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i have a recoil pad made by someone, it doesnt fit ak stocks, which is why i bought it. will post measruements eventually...\
also i have 2 vw beetle oil filters. factory parts. the last gen 2003 ish to 2011 ish?
I'll take the recoil pad!
I'll pay it forward with a 5 rd single stack AK style magazine. It's black and made of a hard composite/polymer (not steel). I assume that it fits the saigas but I don't have one to try it in.
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I don't use a thermometer at all.
Squishy - I have 30 pounds of steel BBB shot that I need to develop a water fowling load for....
Federal law says that you can not hunt migratory birds with lead shot so there is a whole category of shotshell reloading that deals with steel shot. They make wads especially for it. I found a great deal on the steel shot at a yard sale so I snapped it up, but I just haven't taken the time to delve into loading it yet....
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I took my first deer with an AKM....
While by no means the best deer hunting option where rifles are allowed, a S12 certainly would do the job.
Holy smokes 7.62m43 those are some big racked bucks compared to what I chase in my neigborhood. Any one of them would be a wall hanger for me!
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Agree, not needed. but have fun casting!
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Low tech and low budget solutions are also an option. Something as simple as old bowling pins on a table would suit your need. Sometimes they fall right off. Sometimes they need multiple hits to get them off the platform. Even a half full milk jug could fit the bill. Hit it above the water line and the bullet zips through leaving teh target in place. But hit it below the waterline and it explodes. Not the same reation every time depending on fill level. Swinging targets on a string. Some fall, same swing back a coulple of times until the string breaks. Mix it up, put a half full plastic jug or a bowling pin on a string..... Some just on a platform. Some fall, some spin, some swing, some just sit there and wait for the next hit.
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I think you just have to try them all to find what works best in your gun....
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pics of the slug grooved by the wad now loaded in the gallery. It looks like the end result is very similar to what that tool on ebay was designed to do!
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Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Plastic making a groove in lead. I'm still curious about the bottom of the cup as it appeared to me that is is smaller than the diameter of the base of the slug, did the slug seat all the way? Does it appear the slug formed to it also?
It doesn't look like it seats all the way to the base. I have no idea what effect that would have on ballistics, accuracy, or pressure. I guess it would make sense that the air between the wad base and the slug would be compressed into the hollow base and expand it though. Maybe I have stumbled onto the missing link ninja element of shotgun slug accuracy from a smooth bore!woohoo this calls for a drink! - wait too late - a second drink!
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No pics uploaded yet (will do that tomorrow- God willing) but I found something that I never would have expected when I pulled the load apart.
This is pretty cool. The lead slug is grooved by the ridges in the wad. The ridges pushed grooves right into the soft lead when I pushed the slug down into the wad. I am casting slugs with lead pipe so it is 100% soft lead. It takes the shape of the wad inside the hull without deforming the hull. I am only speculating but I bet I am getting good accuracy because the slug is expanding when fired and forcing the wad tight against the barrel walls as the slug and wad travel down the bore.
Improved BHO? One that won't fall inside?
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