Recent content by Dirk Pitt

Click bangs with old 303 Indian stuff is not the exception it’s the norm! The timing can be different but not by much, one interesting thing, As stated click bangs are normal but I have never had a round fail to fire, it may take a second but they all go bang. Personally never had any issue...

Desert Eagle 44 mag

Do it all the time, some of my best times doing just that. Zeroed a Rifle in a driving rain storm. Lots of fun!

Just change one thing instead of a Kimber mine would be a Glock 17 ! I bought a Glock when they very first came out, I have a Gen 1? Before there were Gens! Anyway it was a total jamomatic! Could not get through one mag without multiple malfunctions, regardless of ammo or mag. I was really...

Small tangent here, if you do have bad powder what do you do with it? (Regardless of type). I read somewhere a long time ago to put it in your garden / lawn. It makes a good fertilizer. Just put it in the area needed and add some water. I have done this and it does work. It is a very expensive...

I visit the recycler about 2 times a year. All my scrap brass goes with me. Mangled cases. Berdan primed cases, calibers I don’t shoot etc etc intake that money and ......... you guessed it but more gun stuff whatever it might be!

My go to load is 25 gr of BLC2 for 55gr bullets. Cycles reliably and is accurate enough. Main criteria ...... it goes “bang”. When I pull the trigger.

I use LPP cases period. All the SP cases go right into the scrap brass bucket. My performance criteria? SP cases (before I knew what was going on) totally jammed up the performance of my Dillon 550 press. What a friggin nightmare. No thanks.

Very good kit purpose built https://www.bearindependent.com/online-store/Bear-Fak-First-Aid-Kit-4-6-Week-Lead-Time-p179534631

SP is a flaming PITA, I load LP 45 ACP only. Sorting through is just an unnecessary task that Federal has graced us with. More often than not I see a Federal headstamp it just goes in my scrap brass bucket. That’s just me in my crotchety old ways.

A marlin 44 mag lever gun, I bought it on an impulse since I had money burning a hole in my pocket in 1979. I don’t understand why but that thing kicked harder than anything I had at the time. The lever did not fit my hand and cut my fingers up. The worst was out shooting in the desert and went...

I use The exam gloves from Costco and I have got the nitrile gloves from Harbor freight tools both work very well harbor freight has some thicker ones also, whatever you do just use gloves I’m retired now but I came out of environment where I saw the effects of long-term chemical exposures...

My son took my GI 1942 Inland M1 to a carbine class, we have our M4orgeries but he wanted to do something different. He showed up and got quite a few strange looks. Everyone there had some type of AR something, some guys recognized it, but a lot did not. Even the instructor started to give him...

Thanks for the explanation on the plunk test. It’s the test I’m in doing all along while reloading just never heard it called that !

Thank you everyone, but I only have one question ? What is the “plunk” test ? I have never heard of it ????