Recent content by R Cubed

Great Story! And I would not doubt it's validity. I had (for I gave it to my cousin) my mother's mother life story written in her own hand written in 1950 on the back of old calendar sheets. She tells of her dad (my GGF) chasing two young men out of his barn one night with a shotgun. The next...

OSFM??? - (one size fits most)

Handing over a loaded gun - Yep Ron White is correct - ya cant fix stupid...

Real bad - Got this 640 (-3) and its now plugged. But the grips - the horror and humanity of it all. They need changing. But what - I was thinking (but I smoked too many brain cells working on a bullet buillet problem) of putting Ivory grips, or maybe Walnut grips that would fit my size too...

I knew you were joshin' - Me's da old man,no teeth, hair, money, and lost my job so what am I to do with myself? Watch TV?

Thank you... Know that I did receive a technical writing award years ago when I was on my game... so much for the past. I did this work for myself then decided to write the report. You can take points off to for no peer reviewed articles cited, no other sources cited, other that the email for...

I guess its my Technology and Eng'r background that causes me to approach problems in this way. If you cannot duplicate test results there are errors somewhere. One of my (unspoken) goals here was to show how I set tests up, and how the work documentation can be done - I've done many test like...

I heard for Speer today! The email said they use different powders for pressure and velocity to build the bullets. It also stated "for the sake of argument, try 6.8 grns" That value puts me even closer - to within a 1/3ft-lb. Thank you Speer-bullets for o your excellent customer service. I...

I sent Speer a request of the data this morning from their 'Ask Us" page. I noted that a Speer power charge of 7.5gn give the exact same data as the SWCs. Using a 5gn charge provides energies within one (1) ft-lb, and at 6 gn, I is within 0.5ft-lbs. I wonder if I, or anyone else could 'feel' the...

Those Gold Dots are one harrd bullet to take apart - my bullet puller did not even move the bullet out of the case one iota after many strikes onto a wood block wiht the inerta hammer thing-ie. So I will email, call, write Speer and see if they will give me the charge weight. I did see one...

I weighted 5 rounds of each type, found the mean with a spread sheet, substracted out the published bullet weight. The remainder is the weight of the charge, primer, and case. I used that value in the recoil calculator. The report is attached. Number 'bout even! The ultimate test would be to...

Thank you - All valid points you have made - The Gold Dots have a Mv of ~860fps and a Me of 222ft-lbs. The rounds I worked for do have a Mv lower that the Gold Dots at about ~795fps and produce near same Me. The issue I looked at is, according to Newton, net force equals zero. Force in one...

Dissertation on Building Practice Hand-loaded Rounds for Muzzle Energy Introduction: There are posts on this forum often asking for recommendation for self defense and practice rounds in a given handgun. I chose a self defense round and worked to build practice rounds that provide the same...

Oh my eyes my eyes ... such pain... Will I ever see again?

! No body hurt - He said it went off by itself - Right!!!