I thought about that and I may give it a try.
I casted 200 44 cal and 100 32 cal for the next range trip. Now where did I put the lube?
I have a partially full Baggie of rim fire brass that you're welcome to if you want it. It's mostly LR, but there's some 22mag in there.
I frigging haven't fone anything. I got in a small accident my car is in the shop. I got my fourth case of aspiration pneumonia in two years and I can hardly breathe.
I'm having a real bad hair week.
Cappie, it will get better.
Mat, I have plenty of 22 LR and magnum but thank you.
Loading up a batch (500) of 9mm Luger for the first time. Using a single stage press is really time consuming but I`m not complaining.A special Thank You ( HAPPYGUY ) for making a trade with cowboybart and having him send me the 9mm dies. Thank you both.Happyguy IOU. Thank you, Jerry
I have always thought of this as a family of reloaders, even when we were the old ABT, and as such we need to look out for each other and Point-Man you have looked out for me before, you don't owe me anything.
Got 50 .44 mag and 40 .454 Casull cases at a yard sale for a buck. Deprimed, cleaned and sized them.
Long story there. Ended up in the VA hospital at Biloxi. They drained a whole bunch of fluid from my left pleural cavity. Then I sat there for 6 days waiting for them to analyze it. On the sixth day they came and said they still were analyzing it, but everything they would have kept me in the hospital for was negative. SO they let me go home even though they still did not know what really caused it in the first place yet. About the only thing they did rule out was congestive heart failure. So I go back in two weeks and see what is what. Was just glad to get out of the hospital. Food really sucked and no WI-FI there.
Last edited by gandog56; 10-18-2016 at 07:05 PM.
Hospital and jail food, about the same. Glad you are out, David.
Out is a good thing. Lets pray it stays that way.
Not doing much reloading today. Got some .44 balls for the new cap and ball revolver. Got some caps. A powder measure. Some FFFG powder. A nipple wrench (Dang, that sounds nasty!) A cap insertion tool. Some felt wads. Some black powder bore cleaner.
Was going to make a very bad joke, then I remembered this isn't Facebook
Had to go to the VA in Biloxi for my quarterly oncology checkup, and she told me more about my lung problems. The fluid the drew so far does NOT seem to be full of cancerous cells and they are tend to tentatively call it inflammation products, which may go back to my getting a fourth pneumonia in the last two years. So they are STILL testing and kind of leaving me hanging, but they have pretty much ruled out the two biggest causes of the fluid build up, congestive heart failure and lung cancer. Still I have too many doctor visits and tests and stuff to get any time to get to the range and try my new toy out yet. Can't wait to try to peer through that thick blue white cloud to see if I hit the target!
Sounds like good news then gandog56.
Made 20 .303 Brit low recoil rounds. Took some of my first Greek HXP brass empties, and stuffed them with 13 grains of Red Dot and some 150 grain cast gas checked black powder coated bullets. I made some of these before in 7.62X54R and they were quite pleasant to shoot.
gandog, good to hear they're ruling out some bad stuff and hope you stay on the mend. In reference your black powder pistol, following is a little story. If it's not appropriate I apologize and hope the mods take it down. Be careful with those BP guns!
Why I don't shoot black powder.... (shamelessly stolen from several other forums multiple times over the years)
I'd been looking at a pretty, brass-framed BP revolver in the case at Shattuck's Hardware for a couple of months, and boy! Was I ever proud the day I went in and plunked down the money for it! Eleven dollars in one dollar bills... and eighteen dollars in quarter and dimes. Old Man Shattuck was a great old guy, whose eyesight, thankfully, had gotten really bad over the years... he didn't recognize me as he sold me the .36 caliber pistol... he even threw in a box of pure lead balls with the pistol and percussion caps when I bought the pound of black powder.
I told Mr. Shattuck that I was anxious to shoot it and was heading straight for the dump, and asked him to show me how to load the gun. "It's pretty simple," I recall his telling me. "You measure your powder into the cylinder chamber, put a bullet over it, ram it down in with the hinged thing under the barrel, put your cap over a nipple, and you're set to shoot." I thanked him for his help and headed for the door.
"One last thing!" he called to me as I was running out the door, "Don't forget to put grease over your balls! Crisco works fine!" I didn't understand the need for the last part, but I stopped at Tony's Grocery and bought a little blue can of Crisco grease. And now... to the dump! Where bottles and cans, rats and crows were just waiting for this ol' cowboy to do 'em in!
I replayed Mr. Shattuck's instructions in my head as I laid out all my gear on the smothed-out, brown paper bag at my feet. The first thing I realized was that I didn't have anything to measure the powder with... UNTIL I remembered my knife! I carried one of those folding stag handled camper's knives- you know, the ones with a fork on one side and a spoon on the other? The spoon was perfect for what I needed! Very carefully (thank heaven there wasn't any wind blowing) I poured a spoonful of powder from the can into the spoon, then tipped the spoon up and tapped the powder into the cylinder. Sure, I spilled a bunch over because the spoon held so much more, but what the heck! Powder was cheap, back then... and I had plenty to spare...
Being a methodical kind of kid, I filled all six chambers with the powder, managing to spill as much around my feet, I suppose, as I was getting into the cylinder. I can laugh now, but when I bent over to get the bullets all the powder fell out of the cylinders onto my boots... so I had to fill them all over again! I managed to get all the chambers filled with powder and then stuck a bullet into the first cylinder... I had to really tap it in with my knife to get it started... then shoved it in as far as it would go with the rammer thing. I lost a little powder in the process, but eventually I had all six chambers loaded and ready to go. Then I put percussion caps over the things sticking out the ends of the cylinders... Oops! I forgot a couple of things!
Now, I'll admit my ignorance about a lot of things... but why I was supposed to smear Crisco on my balls is still a mystery to me. But I figured Old Man Shattuck knew what he was about, so I looked around to make sure I was alone, then dropped my pants to my knees, opened the can of Crisco and began to smear it over Lefty and Righty. Standing there in the hot summer sun, slowly massaging soft, silky grease into my scrotum... gee WHIZ! I guess the old man knew what he was talking about after all ! Welcome to the joys of shooting!
I had to force myself out of my reverie...
One last thing and then I'd be ready to shoot... I took my baseball cap off and stuffed it inside my shirt over my left nipple. Okay... I guessed I was ready (except, of course, that in my haste I'd forgotten to pull up my pants...)
Well sir, I crooked my left am out in front of my face, rested the trigger guard of the pistol in my right hand on it, drew a tight bead on an old Four Roses bottle, and squeezed the trigger. I remember a bright flash, a burning sensation on my arm and face, then something hit me square in the forehead and the lights went out.
It must have been quite sometime later when I awoke. I was laid out across the back seat of Sheriff Miller's car (I knew this from the plexi-glass partition and a previous ride when I'd been sixteen), the rider's side door was open and my feet and lower legs were hanging out. As I raised my head to look for the source of the voices I heard I felt like someone had hit me in the head with a sledgehammer. I could see two men in the dim, evening light, just outside the door and within my range of vision. At least, I thought they were two men... I could hear two speaking but they were sorta spinning around and they looked like six. From the voices I knew they were Sheriff Miller and my Dad... "... busy on another call so the volunteer fire department was the first out here," I heard the Sheriff explaining to my dad. "Mabel Krutchner called it in... said she saw smoke comin' from the dump and had heard an awful explosion over this way."
"Near as I can tell from what the firemen say, when they got here they found your boy lying over there. At first they thought he was dead. The dump was on fire all around him, his left arm and face were all black, his boots were scorched pretty badly, he had a HUGE knot on his forehead where somebody'd cold-cocked him... And... well, we think the boy's been... well, taken advantage of."
"What do you mean 'Taken advantage of?'" I heard my dad ask.
"Well, Al, it's like this," the Sheriff said. "The first men to get to your boy said he was unconscious; they found part of a gun by his body; his pants were down around his ankles, his crotch was smeared with KY Jelly and he was sportin' a big boner..."
Then I heard Mr. Shattuck's voice. "I always knew there was something wrong with that boy...This will probably keep him out of the army..."
And THAT'S why I don't shoot black powder...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |