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Waiting for Turkey Season and Crappie Season
Powder coated some bullets and made 300# of BB's (7.5 &8's).
Powder coated some bullets and made 300# of BB's (7.5 &8's).
Wintertime Boredom
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Colorado Cowboy
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I am tearing down 200 BP 12ga shotgun shells I reloaded with the wrong wads. On BP you have to keep pressure on the powder or they act like you have almost no powder in them. The wads were lubed and shouldn't have been as they loose the pressure. Takes about 2 or 3 mins per round. They are in all brass hulls, so I need to save them.
DOO DOO happens...........
DOO DOO happens...........
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The wads used in black powder shells are the same wads you use in shotgun shells right? I seen a guy loading a double black powder with what appeared to be shotgun wads like the WAA118?
Colorado Cowboy
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YES & NO..........
You can use the standard plastic one piece wads, but because of the hotter burn of BP, it melts the plastic and coats the inside of the barrel. It is a little difficult to get out. I use a .200 over powder card wad, a 1/2" fiber wad and a thin over shot was because I load full brass empties. A friend gave me 1M of lubricated fiber filler wads. I thought they would make cleaning the barrel easier after shooting. Only problem was the lubricant bled down into the powder and caused problems with powder ignition and the wads were slightly undersized and loosened up, loosing the pressure on the powder.
Learned the hard way....LOL
You can use the standard plastic one piece wads, but because of the hotter burn of BP, it melts the plastic and coats the inside of the barrel. It is a little difficult to get out. I use a .200 over powder card wad, a 1/2" fiber wad and a thin over shot was because I load full brass empties. A friend gave me 1M of lubricated fiber filler wads. I thought they would make cleaning the barrel easier after shooting. Only problem was the lubricant bled down into the powder and caused problems with powder ignition and the wads were slightly undersized and loosened up, loosing the pressure on the powder.
Learned the hard way....LOL
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I thought about getting one of these double guns a while ago. I just dont like cleaning BP guns every time I shoot them. Kinda messy.
You ever shoot one?
http://www.cabelas.com/product/shooting/black-powder/traditional-rifles-shotguns/pc/104792580/c/104701680/sc/104641380/pedersoli-classic-side-by-side-gauge-black-powder-shotgun/1608571.uts?slotId=1
You ever shoot one?
http://www.cabelas.com/product/shooting/black-powder/traditional-rifles-shotguns/pc/104792580/c/104701680/sc/104641380/pedersoli-classic-side-by-side-gauge-black-powder-shotgun/1608571.uts?slotId=1
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Colorado Cowboy
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Yep. I have an old original antique that belonged to my wife's great grandfather. I also used to have a Baker SxS ml. I hunted doves with it, only problem is that the smoke obscures the target so bad it is hard to tell if you got the bird, in addition to being really slow to load.
I shoot BP (cartridge style) in cowboy action shooting. I do shoot several times a month, so I spend lots of time cleaning my guns (4 used in a match) and reloading.
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Millsworks
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I'm a Taxidermist.
Got 189 deer shoulder mounts, 1 life size deer, 43 foxes, 18 raccoons, 2 opossums, 14 fishers, 9 bobcats, and 27 bears to mount.
No bordum here.
Got 189 deer shoulder mounts, 1 life size deer, 43 foxes, 18 raccoons, 2 opossums, 14 fishers, 9 bobcats, and 27 bears to mount.
No bordum here.
conibear
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Do they have fishers down there? Unbelievable. I trapped them in Oneida County, WI. Meanest animal on earth. Badder than a wolverine. I saw one killing a yarded whitetail by hanging off its throat when I was running my beagles on snowshoe hare.
Slugz
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Anyone ever vacumed the area around the reloading bench. Taken the contents of the vacumn and put it in a fire pit then thrown a match at it?
Alabama
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I would be able to make an instant swimming pool in the fir pit area if I vacuumed up my reloading area and lit it on fire. Nobody would survive that blast...lol
tim
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Slugz
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So that was an epic failure.....every time I threw a match, it went out.....no idea why it didn't flash up .....Im assuming too much dirt mixed and not enough fluff to create a flame or something to burn.
JimP
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You would have to be awful messy to get it to go poof.
I have spilled a lot of powder in my day and usually just use a desk brush to clean it up and even then it usually doesn't amount to very much powder. Now if you pilled it up into a small pile and lit it you would get a small reaction.
I have spilled a lot of powder in my day and usually just use a desk brush to clean it up and even then it usually doesn't amount to very much powder. Now if you pilled it up into a small pile and lit it you would get a small reaction.
Slugz
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Yeah not really sure what I was thinking there....don't spill a ton but just assumed after 10 years there would be enough to do something. Oh well.
JimP
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I only give my bench a real cleaning once a year and even then I doubt that there is more than a tablespoon worth of powder on it. And that is after dumping a few reloads onto it. But then I usually try and clean up the bigger messes before I go any further.
On to the subject, I don't have time to get bored. I have been hunting big game every month since last August and just finished up my last hunt last week down in Arizona. Now it is time to do some research and start applying for this upcoming fall hunts and get some reloading done. Then once it warms up a little I'll be down at my shooting range testing out new and old loads. I also need to remount a scope onto my .25-06 and get it sighted back in.
Sometimes I wonder how I did all of this when I was working for a living. But being retired is a very fun occupation.
On to the subject, I don't have time to get bored. I have been hunting big game every month since last August and just finished up my last hunt last week down in Arizona. Now it is time to do some research and start applying for this upcoming fall hunts and get some reloading done. Then once it warms up a little I'll be down at my shooting range testing out new and old loads. I also need to remount a scope onto my .25-06 and get it sighted back in.
Sometimes I wonder how I did all of this when I was working for a living. But being retired is a very fun occupation.
RICMIC
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I agree with JimP on the retired part. I've been plowing snow or working on my plow truck for most of the week, but still found time for a couple shop projects. Will be headed out for a day of snowmobiling, and may once again attempt to find the way thru "The 100 Mile Swamp." Tim...a bunch of us made our annual sledding trip around Island Park, ID. Moderate snow, but the avalanche danger was extreme there...be careful my friend.