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I used to buy my powder from Grafs. It took about 3 lbs to negate the hazmat fee vs having bought the same T7 at Bass Pro, and 3 lbs was a reasonable about to spend. But they no longer carry it. I think it’s back in production. Where can I buy the amount elsewhere? They do still sell Swiss...

Once I had overloaded my Ruger and had to remove the nipple and use a nail to hammer out the bullet. Not a good thing to use. Does anyone know of a brass rod I could use for this purpose? I’m about to begin working on my Ruger and Remington NMAs universal bullet mold design. I have a more...

In the past 9 or so years I finally went back to the range. What I found was that the little pin that holds the loading lever to the connecting piece for the plunger keeps falling out. Part #27 on EMF’s site. My guess is that this little pin was inserted and then the ends (lack of a better...

I’ve been looking over the Hatsan rifles that weigh a more normal weight (6-7 lbs) and seeing the low velocities for lead pellets I’ve wondered if the .25 cal, though claims to hit a little harder, isn’t an extremely short range caliber and not worth considering over the .22 cal for small game...

I have been looking at Hatsan .22 cal rifles. It’s main purposes being backyard shooting along with squirrels and rabbits, but figured I’d be an opportunistic predator having heard porcupines taste like pulled pork, and there’s hit or miss on whether a raccoon tastes good which means I’d have to...

When I think of small game hunting I generally think of squirrels and rabbits, along with various smaller birds. But as a kid I’d hunt for snakes and when we got rattlers we cooked them just because we were teens and heard about it. Well, my father has also told me about eating cat and dog while...

So I’ve been drawn to a .22 cal springer for a while now. It would mostly be used for fun in the back yard just keeping the skills going, but would otherwise make sure I had squirrels and rabbits in a sack. With that said I’ve figured I’d want it to be at least capable of dispatching something...

I mentioned in the other thread I started today that I need a Traditions Crockett rifle, and that I like the idea of drop-in barrels. What’s better than a wooden carrying case with 3 barrels, a .32 cal, a .45 cal, and a smoothbore? Being a small game, mostly squirrel, shotgun I figure a barrel...

Working with a 13/16” barrel (thinking along the lines of a drop-in barrel for a Crockett rifle) I’ve thought it would be cool to have a handy carbine that shoots my revolver bullets paper patched or something (I’ve always liked the idea of compatible ammo). My thoughts being a 215-255, and...

I’ve looked a bit at original BP cartridges such as the .44-40, .45 Schofield, .44 Colt, and .45 Colt, not to mention (I forgot the designation) the military cartridge that grew from the Schofield/Colt, which did what exactly, match the 28 grn Schofield with a 230 grn bullet but with the shorter...

Around 2013 I had Accurate Molds make me a few designs that I got in a single mold. One of them was my 195 grn version being about the length of a ball as I thought my 2013 NMA would come with the typical slow twist, and I wanted more mass and a wide meplat for hunting. As it turned out it has a...

A fellow on the Rem 1858 forum has created a BP HP bullet and has/will create a ram with a HP pin to preserve the integrity of the cavity upon loading. I’ve been wanting to modify my current designs as I see their preferred powder charges don’t change despite projectiles used so I figure instead...

Wanting an air rifle mostly for squirrels and rabbits out to 25-30 yds or so, but still capable of critters the size of a raccoon to half that. I’m not wanting to drop a lot of coins on these and looking I found this...

So many have noted that a stock ROA chamber holds a little more powder than a NMA or 1860 Army. There’s a company that will deepen the chambers and another who makes an aftermarket cylinder they claim holds 5-10 additional grains of powder. I figured my Pietta NMA must have a shorter cylinder...

A fellow on the Remington 1858 forum has been testing custom hollow points. What he found was that using the standard ram will deform the cavity a bit even with slow easy pressure (not too badly but still does). What he then did was use an epoxy on an additional ram to create a pin...

So I’ve read many times the praises of (Kaido’s conicals in particular) bullets in .36 caliber, and I see no real benefit to using those over a ball for anything but medium game. I’m of a mind to feel, especially where expansion is questionable, that larger calibers are better (I’ve felt this...

Has anyone tried such a thing from a pistol? I have wondered how useful a smoothbore Plains Pistol (28 ga) would be for small game (using a screw-in full choke), and then wondered how well a buck n ball load might work on hogs if I ever had to track one. I’m thinking over powder card followed...

There’s a fella here who has a sweet looking Walker carbine with something like an 18” barrel (it’s in the Walker group). Unfortunately he didn’t have anything to do with the modifications. I’ve been rather curious how one would get a barrel made for such a beast. To my thinking a barrel...

Was admiring 44 dave’s pics of the old Colt Army, and have to admit I’ve never cared much for the streamlined Colts (outside of the Police model), but never noticed the cutout on the left hand side in the recoil shield. The way it is cut seems peculiar but does line up with the nipple. However...

There has been lots of talk of Bill loading up a ROA with smokeless (Trailboss?) and a 250-255 grn bullet. Eventually someone posted a screenshot of the page in a book written by what I’m thinking was someone who worked closely with Bill Ruger. Does anyone have this book and can supply a...