morcey2
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For those who don't have it, the latest issue of Handloader has a full reprint of the 1st ever issue. Just a couple of things I noticed in the old issue:
1. In the "Clean Those Guns" column there's a reference to a blue ointment used to remove lead fouling. It's a mixture of tallow and mercury.
What could possibly go wrong?
2. There's an article about bullet swaging and the workers are standing next to the swaging machines complete with ginormous flywheels that I'm sure are really loud and have stuff under very high pressure.... Not a one of them is wearing eye protection and I don't think they're wearing hearing protection either. They might have plugs in, but I doubt it.
3. There are no internet addresses in any of the ads. How are we supposed to find anything?
4. There's a chronograph ad that promotes "All Transistor!" This is interesting to me because I have boxes upon boxes of vacuum tubes because I build guitar amps out of them. I don't know how big a tube-powered chrono would be, but I'd be willing to give it a try!
5. Savage made a reloading press.
6. A "Kurious Kartridges" column on the .2240 Triple-Neck Terror. It's actually quite funny. We need more of that.
7. The 6.5 Rem Mag was the new ubermagnum. Now it's just a slightly-above-average 6.5 barrel burner.*
8. There were lots more loading press manufacturers. Most have either gone out of business or been acquired.
Of course, some things haven't changed:
1. They ask if the "ancient" 30-06 is obsolete. That's still going on.
2. Ken Waters says that Jack O'Connor likes the 270 Win.
3. Conetrol scope mounts ads.
4. Custom .17 cal ubervelocity wildcat/custom rifle ads.
5. * (from #7 above). A 6.5 Rem Mag with a 1-12 twist barrel won't stabilize 160 gr bullets and is mediocre with 140 and even 120 gr bullets.
Just some of my random thoughts. It's interesting to look through some of the older magazines, except for Shotgun News. That just reminds me of how much stuff I missed out on in the 90's and early 2000s.
Matt
1. In the "Clean Those Guns" column there's a reference to a blue ointment used to remove lead fouling. It's a mixture of tallow and mercury.
What could possibly go wrong?2. There's an article about bullet swaging and the workers are standing next to the swaging machines complete with ginormous flywheels that I'm sure are really loud and have stuff under very high pressure.... Not a one of them is wearing eye protection and I don't think they're wearing hearing protection either. They might have plugs in, but I doubt it.
3. There are no internet addresses in any of the ads. How are we supposed to find anything?
4. There's a chronograph ad that promotes "All Transistor!" This is interesting to me because I have boxes upon boxes of vacuum tubes because I build guitar amps out of them. I don't know how big a tube-powered chrono would be, but I'd be willing to give it a try!
5. Savage made a reloading press.
6. A "Kurious Kartridges" column on the .2240 Triple-Neck Terror. It's actually quite funny. We need more of that.
7. The 6.5 Rem Mag was the new ubermagnum. Now it's just a slightly-above-average 6.5 barrel burner.*
8. There were lots more loading press manufacturers. Most have either gone out of business or been acquired.
Of course, some things haven't changed:
1. They ask if the "ancient" 30-06 is obsolete. That's still going on.
2. Ken Waters says that Jack O'Connor likes the 270 Win.
3. Conetrol scope mounts ads.
4. Custom .17 cal ubervelocity wildcat/custom rifle ads.
5. * (from #7 above). A 6.5 Rem Mag with a 1-12 twist barrel won't stabilize 160 gr bullets and is mediocre with 140 and even 120 gr bullets.
Just some of my random thoughts. It's interesting to look through some of the older magazines, except for Shotgun News. That just reminds me of how much stuff I missed out on in the 90's and early 2000s.
Matt
