Recent content by Karl Haemmerlein

Started reloading 40+ years ago. About 10 years after I started reloading my large jug of IMR 4227 was about to run out and I bought a new 8lb jug. I used it mostly for 44 and 41 magnum. I loaded up some 44 mags with 240 gr soft point using my 4227 load with the new powder. I will never make...

Last decent gun show I went to was in Virginia in the early-mid 1990's. Last gun show I ever went to was late 90's just outside of Charlotte, nc. There used to be a dealer there who had a whole room of powder/primer's/reloading stuff at really good prices. That was gone by 1999. Even before...

So many variables between all manuals. The chamber they fired in whether test barrel or real firearm. The specific primer they used, and the lot number of that primer. The specific case they used, no two manufacturer's cases are even close to the same. The specific bullet they used, no two...

In the full lee dipper set with the sliding card they do list VMD(volumetric density) for powders. DON'T use it. Every lot of powder is different. If you practice and can measure the largest dipper in the full Lee set very accurately several times in a row, you can calculate your own VMD with...

I thought about and think I need to add something else I discovered shooting the grid around my aimpoint. If you shoot horizontally accross the labradar enough, you can get crazy high SNR for the caliber you are shooting. But it is not really good data. If when testing you get to the point...

I would be banned from this forum if I replied honestly to your post. Late 90's they butchered my early 70's model 25-2 45 acp. I got a call from the last gunsmith that existed there, he apprenticed in the early 60's under a couple masters from the 30's that were still around. He called me...

I love my Labradar. I use it in a challenging environment for radar at my house and understand the limitation’s that imposes. For small caliber rounds I cannot get reliable/accurate data past 17 or so yards, even though it routinely tracks .22 out to 70 yards, with occasional catches as far as...

In that case, when you email them with a copy of your purchase record showing it was listed as .308, I'm willing to bet they will just ship you the speers in the quantity you ordered and tell you to just keep the wrong bullets. Two or three years ago they sent me the wrong bullets and the right...

I hate to say this, your first mistake was sending an older S&W to them instead of a recognized S&W gunsmith, I personally wouldn't trust them to clean one of my older S&W's much less do anything else. The model 53 barrel is labelled 22 magnum and is correct. Same as the model 53's that came...

A more complete model 15 pistol pack:

An almost certainly useless bump :)

Looking for a second barrel/shroud for my Dan Wesson 375 SuperMag. Also would like to get another one or two shrouds/barrels for my 41 mag stainless Dan Wesson. On the 41 any length other than 8 or 10 inches as I have those two already. I don't know if DW ever made a different length for the...

Thanks, I'll pass on it then. I have plenty of S&W's from the 70's and only one from the 60's and one pre-war, just looking for good deals on older ones.

I do have the 3rd edition of the standard catalog of s&w, but I have most of my stuff in storage and am temporarily in an apartment while looking for a place. I may have an opportunity to get a model 37 no dash in nearly perfect condition, but I really will only be interested in it if it is a...

Thanks Doc, I did not think it was made anytime near when they did laser engraving. So the old man told a little fib to the gun shop when he sold it to them. I bet he had it sent back to S&W for a refinish and had the engraving done then. That does not bother me at all, for 450 dollars out...