Range Report: 9/16" Marbles in .58cal - Shockingly Accurate!

[29caliber]

This might be a minor point, but would the wound channel made by either the marble or conical be referred to as a "glass hole"?

 

[rabbit03]

This might be a minor point, but would the wound channel made by either the marble or conical be referred to as a "glass hole"?

Yeah and a Texas Heart Shot would be called hitting him in the Glasshole! :rotf: :rotf: :blah:

rabbit03

 

[Semisane]

Man, this thread took a left turn at the sign that said "Sanity Straight Ahead".

 

[roundball]

Man, this thread took a left turn at the sign that said "Sanity Straight Ahead".

Yes, I understand an occasional humorous comment as I do it myself, but there's probably been enough high-jacking of this thread now :grin:

 

[Runner]

Very cool info!
One little detail tho. If my balls don't show rifling marks on them thru the patch, I buy bigger balls until they do. Every recovered ball I have has rifling marks on them. If I could find it, the one from the bucks neck is around here somewhere, and it is barely even distorted. The rifling marks are plain and have pretty sharp shoulders.
Because it doesn't happen the way you load and shoot does not even indicate that it doesn't happen when people load differently.

 

[roundball]

Very cool info!
One little detail tho. If my balls don't show rifling marks on them thru the patch, I buy bigger balls until they do. Every recovered ball I have has rifling marks on them. If I could find it, the one from the bucks neck is around here somewhere, and it is barely even distorted. The rifling marks are plain and have pretty sharp shoulders.
Because it doesn't happen the way you load and shoot does not even indicate that it doesn't happen when people load differently.

I simply made the point that the hard marbles proved it's obviously not necessary.

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Just got a quote from Japan for 5000 15mm (0.600") glass marbles 'shipped' to the US. About 8-cents each (I'm paying 10-cents for lead) , not including the estimated $90 shipping costs to the US.

Me thinks we all need to do a much better job of educating the public and our politicians of the real issues with lead roundball into firing pits.

 

[roundball]

Just got a quote from Japan for 5000 15mm (0.600") glass marbles 'shipped' to the US. About 8-cents each (I'm paying 10-cents for lead) , not including the estimated $90 shipping costs to the US.

Me thinks we all need to do a much better job of educating the public and our politicians of the real issues with lead roundball into firing pits.

That's probably the same place I was referencing...and with the $90 shipping that puts them at .10 cents each, no better than the cost of lead.

HOWEVER...if lead should become banned or lead prices keep climbing, the 15mm marbles could quickly become a viable practice alternative.

Curious...did they quote the diameter as being .600" or is that simply your calculation?

Reason I ask is that the marbles I've bought and tried so far have been in fractions of an inch...and while we know 1/2" should be .500", the 1/2" size marbles I bought varied from .46x" to .48x".

By the way, if anybody wants to try some 1/2's, PM me.

 

[54mountain]

Semisane,
Heck them ain't nothin new. I used to shoot 'em all time as a kid :haha: :haha:

 

[BrownBear]

I gotta ask this now that the thread has turned back on course a little:

Has anyone tried casting balls from aluminum? Surely they're no lighter than glass marbles, and aluminum is plenty easy to cast with.

I certainly wouldn't do it in an aluminum mold :shocked2: but with the right lubes I bet some variety of steel mold would be just fine.

The only reason I bring it up is the difficulty in finding just the right size marbles and the expense of purchase and shipping. Heck, aluminum would be more or less free.

 

[smo]

I'm with you 54, I shot my share of those myself.I even shot a few of the smaller cal. white ones. :rotf: