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Well, I made up a big ol' batch of 140 grain SWC bullets and got some Goex, I recently ran short of smokeless powder for my .38 so it didn't take me too long to put two and two together. :) I've wanted to try loading .38's with BP for a while, not really for any practical reason. More or less I...

Recently I did a trade, I traded three boxes of old ammo (paid $5 apiece for them at a garage sale) for this neat little gun and I also got 60 pieces of .30-30 brass with it. The gun is a Navy Arms .36 caliber boot pistol, single shot ball and cap smoothbore. I got the gun and it looked to be...

Today I invented a really fun and exciting game to play with firearms. I like to call it "shotgun golf." What you do is get a semi-auto or pump shotgun and a golf ball. Put three in the magazine and rack one in the chamber for a total of three rounds. You stand 100 yards from a pole or post...

My friend and I were discussing blackpowder the other day, and he's a bit of an amateur chemist and a tinkerer like myself. He had the idea of adding copper sulfate to blackpowder, or possibly incorporating it into blackpowder while it's wet to achieve a cool looking blue muzzle flash. The idea...

Howdy y'all! I recently purchased a Lee two cavity bullet mold for my .38, and would like to find some load data for it. I've searched online and I can't find much data for this bullet, let alone for any of the powders I have. Right now I have Hodgedon Promo and Clays. I also have CCI #500...

Howdy y'all, I'm fixing to move on out to Georgia (where I'll actually have a second amendment compared to California) and I'm curious as to how much Goex, Pyrodex, Triple Seven and such cost out there. Right now I can only get Pyrodex in one place and it's $27 a pound. :banghead:

Today I got curious and finally did it. I loaded up some .410 with 1 dram of BP, a plastic wad and some #9 shot before I headed to the gun club for trap. I can't say much other than this is a great idea, a Swiss watch plan. The loads didn't kick too bad at all compared to factory smokeless ones...

On Saturday I was experimenting with some hotter loads in my .44 Remington NMA. I brought some harder than normal roundballs a friend gave me, he said he made them from range scrap. The balls weren't too hard to seat with the lever on the gun without giving myself a hernia, but I decided to use...

Howdy y'all! :) I'm in the process of building a rifle barrel for my .410 that will be chambered for .32 H&R magnum. My reason for doing this is that I want a reloadable substitute for .22LR, by using .32 S&W Longs I reckon she'd make for a nice soft shooter with more punch than a .22. That and...

Howdy y'all! :D I've got a bit of a project in mind, I want to make a separate barrel for my Rossi .410 single shot in .32 S&W Long. The reason for this is I can't find .22LR anywhere in California, but I've got plenty of .32 Long brass as well as primers and can reload that caliber. The...

Howdy guys! :) I recently got a new shotgun in a new-to-me gauge as far as reloading goes. I don't have any smokeless gunpowder suitable for loading .410's, but I do have 8 pounds of Green Dot, some Bullseye, and a pound of Pyrodex and BP. So for now I'm going to load all my .410 with the proper...

Lately I've been experimenting with .410 loads. I found a couple Remington hulls that were a bit crispy, rather than throw em' away I figured I'd do something nice with them. After a bit of experimentaton I found out how to remove the brass base from the hull, I'd originally intended to make a...

Howdy guys, I have a sweet old revolver with and enlarged firing pin hole. For the longest time I couldn't fine out what was wrong with her, lots of misfires and sometimes fails to index the cylinder because there's a primer protruding into the hole. When dry fired with no live ammo in it the...

I have been thinking about getting a .36 Remington and a .38 Spesh gated conversion cylinder for a while now. I may end up buying one in a year or so. I'm kind of a newbie as car as loading handgun cartridges, and the idea of trying heeled bullets sounds fascinating. I'm always up for learning...

So I have been milling over this idea for a while now. A fellow member mentioned I should make them, but I wasn't sure how to modify the design to work for a .44. I'm thinking about making and selling loaders for the Remington that work just like the little .22 loaders for the NAA companions do...

What's the real number of muzzleloading firearms, by real I mean the number you give when your wife ain't around! :D I'll start. I got a rifle, a 16 guage shotgun that normally gets fed BP shells. Three Remington sixguns and a single shot derringer, an old Iver Johnson I shoot blackpowder...

Does anyone know if Lee makes one? I think they make molds for the .32 ACP, but the bullet diameter might be different. It also occurred to me that the little brass .31 molds might make a suitable conical, I know that the .32 caliber Magtech bullets I've got will fit in the cylinder of a 63' Rem...

Well... it's not strictly for .44's but it works well for anything with some power. I tried tapping one with a .22 Magnum, I got lots of bubbles. The .44 Remington with my 360 grain Monster bullets makes tons of bubbles too. I tried shooting a container of them with my .50 flintlock and a...

This morning I went out nice and early to go blow off some steam with my Remington NMA as well as a couple other firearms that I love. I brought the steel framed one, got about three cylinders through with round balls and 30 grains of Goex. Oh boy I love that pistol, and ever since I put a nice...

Howdy guys, lately I've been shooting a lot of shotguns (as some of you may have heard) and shooting trap twice a week. When I'm out there I love to bring my 16 gauge and use it for singles, it works well. My loads are pretty heavy, but I am using a waxed card and some overshot card wads. Of...