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That is correct and it’s why the discussion on it isn’t allowed.
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Woot woot! Crates arriving is always a good thing.
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Open that baby up!!!
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Looks like Traditions has really stepped up their kit packaging these days.
Got my bag ready for the Pemi woods walk tomorrow.
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Filed a lock bolster flat , so the fit against the touch hole side of a barrel is tight , to keep the hot ignition gasses out of the lock mortise. Also, lessened the trigger pull by moving the trigger rearward , and re- pinning. All should be good.
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It's looking good Bob but when I view it on Android several of the pages are just templates. I'm am an IT guy so these things jump out to me. A little more work and it should be great!
Years ago I had trouble with a friend's website. Just would not display right. i complained a bit, but he told me firmly that I was the ONLY person visiting his site using Opera running on a BeOS machine and he was NOT going to pore over pages of code to fix it.
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Hey I'm not complaining just trying to provide some helpful feedback.
When I look at it on my iPhone none of the pics appear. It’s so beyond me…
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That’s about it.
Finished working up ballistics and potential loads to match the velocities I am trying to achieve and have come to the conclusion that some of it may be a bridge too far, especially in the 58 cal.
So I have tweaked my expectations, started from square one and got some decent starting points for each caliber at reasonable MAX velocities for each caliber. Min velocities would be 100/125 fps below each max.
Going to start at 85/95 grains of T73F which should give me the min velocities and work up to those velocities to no more than 115 grains of T73F and see what kind of accuracy I get.
I have been digging through the Fadala books and doing lots of table top calculations based upon the information provided to comeup with loads that zero at 100 yards, no higher than 3" at 50 yards (except for the 58 cal which I will hold to a 100 yard gun) no more than 3" low at 125 yards.
Table work is done, now is the time for burning powder and seeing what really happens! Do calculations always meet reality...almost never, but I have a starting point and it is better than sitting in the house and twiddling my thumbs. Come on spring.
58 cal 1150 fps mv 580 gr
58 cal 1250 fps mv 510 gr
54 cal 1500 fps mv 375 gr
54 cal 1475 fps mv 425 gr
54 cal 1400 fps mv 485 gr
50 cal 1550 fps mv 385 gr
So I have tweaked my expectations, started from square one and got some decent starting points for each caliber at reasonable MAX velocities for each caliber. Min velocities would be 100/125 fps below each max.
Going to start at 85/95 grains of T73F which should give me the min velocities and work up to those velocities to no more than 115 grains of T73F and see what kind of accuracy I get.
I have been digging through the Fadala books and doing lots of table top calculations based upon the information provided to comeup with loads that zero at 100 yards, no higher than 3" at 50 yards (except for the 58 cal which I will hold to a 100 yard gun) no more than 3" low at 125 yards.
Table work is done, now is the time for burning powder and seeing what really happens! Do calculations always meet reality...almost never, but I have a starting point and it is better than sitting in the house and twiddling my thumbs. Come on spring.
58 cal 1150 fps mv 580 gr
58 cal 1250 fps mv 510 gr
54 cal 1500 fps mv 375 gr
54 cal 1475 fps mv 425 gr
54 cal 1400 fps mv 485 gr
50 cal 1550 fps mv 385 gr
Got two big slugs of lead into 45# worth of Lee ingot molds to get put in the Lee Production pot tomorrow to transmorgify into .575 Minie balls.
Shoot that big boy! I got some sample 610 gr .585 58cal from Brokenbear off of a Val Forgett Shiloh bullet mold that was designed for his Africa hunts. Not working up a load for that yet! He was shooting 140 grain of 3f in his Zouave hunter
That beast is on the left next to a 560 gr .579 58 cal
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No problem... just forgot to put the
after my post. Feedback is always good...
Nice site!
Looks like a 'stake cutter' mold that I bought from DGW back in the early 1980's.
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