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rust Marlin 39A
I encountered a RUSTED SHUT Ruger Security Six stored under a fellow's water bed !!!
Seven drops of KROIL (Midway or Brownells or Graf & Son) -on on each screw and joint and I waited 24 Hours.
It was FREE the following morning after a few taps with a Rawhide and it was...
KAHR/AO M-1--RELOAD 'cause ammo aint out there no more
I reload and it behaves splendidly with both my bullet styles
EVERYBODY reloaded M-1 carbine with cast bullets as I entered the Curio & Relics trade in 1964. It's a LOT cheaper to shoot and there ain't NO cheap manufactured...
leading a CZ 75
Gas Cutting causes leading
Gas cutting can be caused by too much powder, too small a bullet (poor fit), or too hard a bullet (poor fit)
I have been shooting the truncated conical 124 gr bullet I cast from a Lee 6 cav mold for decades in my CZ-75 and 5 other nines
I see...
.30 carbine bullets
a year ago ARMSCOR made .30 carbine bullets at about a nickel in bulk was offered by Centerfiresystems.com...They went fast.
I cast a lyman 311359 M-1 carbine labeled slug, (118 gr. NICE POINTY BULLET, cut for a gas check ( I don't use one) works fine with 13 gr 4227...
Ruger's 7.62 x 39 Bbl.
Responding to list question. C.E. Harris, one of the Ruger engineers connected to that project some time ago, is on a cast bullet list that serves me. Ed's writings os shooting cast bullet loads in hunting with SKS and other military rifles is seminal work. His...
hey SGW42 re: 39-A stock bulseye
Mine fell out during countless moves. Anybody know how to get a replacement bullseye dot?
A simple letter to marlin?
(I just spent mor'en my dad paid for my #39A when I hadda send it to Marlin to rebarrel it (squib-bullet bulge)
Yodar in Central florida
91-36 mosin N agant Finns
http://www.gunsnammo.com/ sold me mine for less than $300.
Select ones are up to $400 but mine is virtually mint and my 91-36 the ONLY Mosin-derived rifle I will own. I had a bucketfull of Mosin Nagant 91's and 91-30's and didn't enjoy them at all
These rifles...
.308 7.62 x 39
I haven't miked commercial 7.62 x 39 but I cast my own to .311. for Norinco SKS
I KNOW a lotta european caliber ammo in W/W white boxes is made by
Privi Partisan and Sellier & Bellot and might be large (ie. .311-.312)
Your statement might be the reason why the Ruger...
SKS loads
Fatelvis I am CHEEEEP. I got an 8 lb jug of Data 2200 from wideners 5-6 years ago, $8 a lb, and I am still using 25-26 grains under the Lee 312-155-2R bullet and I use the factory crimp die, I crimp the snot out those antimony/tin enhanced wheel weight bullets
On a good day I hit the...
Cop 22250's Ruger
Ed Harris is on my other cast bullet list. He designed the NEI moulds for that bullet eveybody casts for SKS, etc. its ~.312' Same design in the Lee mould
(I'd give my left n*t for a 6 cavity of that mould)
That Ruger 7.62 x 39 carbine is a strange Bird. The Ruger...
Bullets from Lee 311-2R
Mine dont drop that large using WWM, but they size easily to .312 for my Chi-Com SKS and i use them UNSIZED for the Enfield.
If I want it bigger for ragged out 91-30 Mosin-Nagants I add 1 lb magnum shot to tin-augmented wheel-weight-metal alloy and many of them will...
Yodar's lube for 7.62 x 39 loads
I used two home made lubes from the cast bullet list
my favorite was John Paul Jones' Saeco Green Lube
1 lb paraffin
1 lb STP (1/2 bottle)
1 lb beeswax
colored with a green crayon or three or a green votive candle
Saeco Green is a hard lube...
handloads in 7.62 x 39 with Lee Cast boolets
ZERO leading at 2000 fps or less with Chicom SKS (chrome bbl)
Used Accurate reloading data for AA 2230 which is close to DATA 2200 which I got from wideners many years ago.
Yodar
S & B 7.62 x 39
It's almost as good as Privi Partisan
S & B is fine ammo
I cast my own and at 100 yards, my handloads hit a 3" target spinner on good days and a 5" spinner routinely Lee 155 2R mould of antimony enhanced with tin wheelweight metal
yodar
39a evaluation
function, fit, finish and bore condition.
run a patch thru it, if you feel a "tug" as you stroke it has a bulge
it happens more often than your realize, their barrel is so strong it withstands bullet in the barrel syndrome and the bulge isnt visible unless you look real...
My 39A books at $200 in excellent condfiton, Dad bought it for me when I was a kid for less than $100...I found a bullge and sent it to marlin to rebarrel and they charged me $100 and put a golden 39A barrel on it, my rifle has no value now but it is for my son to enjoy
39D shows $275...
BUYING 7.62 xx 39 ammo
cast and reload for about $7.00/C
Initial lee turret setup was <$100.00 with dies
primer 1.5 Cents (now 2.2 cents)
powder 1.5 " surplus $8.00 /lb powder
case 3 " amortized over 6 loads per case
bullet 0 " hand...
SVT-40 values
Values IMO $400
HOWEVER I have seen them go from $400 to $600 and they are getting harder to find, NICE. Mine, I hade several in the late 60's were Finn origin before russians started vat blueing them whole (produced plum colored bolts) and it and its stable mates were a HOOT...
Join the curio & relics news list and you will have my source, about 800 BATF licenced 01 and 03 collectors whot shoot and reload military rifles
Undocumented source, I was a vendor of QC/Inspection instruments to Olin Brass, a W/W cartridge-ammunition manufacturer in East Alton Illinois...
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