Recent content by Cerberus62

Many years ago I was told by Oehler to use a spring powered air gun to check speed, as they are very consistent. I have an old Daisy cheapo lever gun that has run right at 248-250 fps for 25 years. When I really want to be sure of the chrono results or check my setup I run 10 BB's over the...

Old School Recipe: 148gr Hollow Base Wadcutter (Speer or Hornady) 2.7grs Bullseye Any standard Small Pistol primer. If you cast your own it's easy to find the old Lyman molds for 140-160 grain flat base wadcutters. Enjoy your new K-38

My experience with the Remington 125 & 158 SJHP's you are talking about is that they will not expand at 38+P velocities, the 125 maybe a little depending on what you hit, the 158 not at all. Go with a solid or HP 158-160gr SWC, or better yet, full wadcutters seated out over a normal powder...

+1 on this... Those bullets are way to cool to shoot. Back in the early 80's i ran a couple boxes of them in Remington .357 factory loads through a 4" Model 19. Plenty of noise & fury, and lots of lead left in the barrel. As far as penetrating metal car bodies, these are the only bullets I...

Uh...might want to re-phrase that one, Bob ;)

The pressure limit for the original 38 Special 158 grain load was 20,000 cup (from many sources), some others refer to 22,000. SAAMI revised testing methods and measurements in the early '70s and then lowered max pressures again in the early '90s.

The US Military does not use 40 S&W, not in any significant quantity anyway. The huge ammo purchasing referred to was for 40 S&W. Now, who uses that...?

Got a pic of the can?

The main reason for opening the flash hole for primer-only powered loads was to keep the primer from backing out and tying up the cylinder. This was to be done only with primer powered wax or rubber bullets. As pointed out already, it is extremely dangerous to do this with any load containing...

Not hijacking the thread, but what's so wrong about that? 1) American universities have been training the world's engineers for the last 30 years. These are the men & women staffing those foreign companies now. 2) The basic designs of the guns haven't changed in much longer than that. Most...

Very nice. What did you use to tough up the bluing wear at the muzzle?

Great photo, nut notice the helmets. The PASGT kevlar helmets began issue in the early 80's. Any idea of when this photo was taken?

When I load Lyman 311041 or similar in the 30-30 without gas checks I set the sizer to fill the gas check shank area with lube. I then seat the bullet so the lubed base section is contained in the case neck and get very good results this way. At low pressures the lube acts as a sort of O-ring...

Be careful with the vavle grinding compouns, it cuts pretty fast. I have used JB Bore paste to open aluminum and iron molds with excellent results.

My M-336 with Micro groove shoots cast extremely well. Think about it, lots of small lands spaced close together do a good job of gripping the softer lead bullet without a lot of deformation. The trick to getting cast bullets to shoot well in Micro Groove barrels is to make sure they are...