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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Chutin Wimmen Racin' and Likkar in a Jar: Thank You Thank You Thank You

Chutin Wimmen Racin' and Likkar in a Jar: Thank You Thank You Thank You:  Today is the National Gunshow in Chantilly Va. Before I gather up my coins, plastic and shopping list. I wanted to take time to thank all ...

Thank You Thank You Thank You

 Today is the National Gunshow in Chantilly Va. Before I gather up my coins, plastic and shopping list. I wanted to take time to thank all the visitors and followers of my Blog. Overnight I went over the 2000 views mark Thank You Thank You Thank You. Please stop by again. If you have comments good or bad please click the icon at the bottom of each entry. Wm F Cody stated any publicity was good publicity (paraphrased). I feel the same way about the comments. Again please stop in often..

Little Indy says

Little something for you to enjoy








Thank again for stopping by


Friday, July 27, 2012


Alternative shot shells. Part IV


  The past few weeks I have shared the method for making Brass shot shells. These are great shells and with some care can last seemly forever. However I found they don’t cycle well in Pump action and lever action shot guns. The key word being “well”.  You can modify them slightly by putting a bit of a roll to the edge of the Hull. I use a 1/2 “x 3/4” Copper pipe fitting. Placing the opened end over the hull and rapping it with a mallet. This will eliminate the straight edges that will hang up when you cycle a pump or lever gun. This will work but again it will set no speed records. You will receive a ton of karma and style points for using them though.  As slow as I am those points make me feel like I won something.
  As I mentioned in the earlier sections you can use these same loads in plastic and or paper hulls. If you belong to a gun club chances are you can find all the useable hulls you could want at the Trap/ Skeet range, free for the hauling. Remember though the primers for these; you will need 209 sized primers. Take your freshly sized and primed hull and load as we did in the Section III. In this case you will need to crimp the hulls closed. If you don’t already have a shot shell loader I will discuss some alternatives for closing crimping the freshly loaded hull. I will suggest in these hulls you do want to fill them with shot or fill wad column in. So some experimenting maybe needed. To figure out how much of each is needed. 



Lee Load all Jr. One of my bottom of the box deals. I use this for many 
of the shot shell loading steps including crimping .
I would love to find 2 or 3 more of these handy little loaders.
Setting the wads in this step.



I have found with Just one nitro and one fiber wad, an 1 1/8th oz load
is about the right amount.






    I have recently (in the past two years) begun loading paper hulls. They are more authentic looking, plus they cycle better in the pump and lever action guns. They are a bit more time consuming. They have to be trimmed generally remove the old crimped section of the spent hull. I use a piece of plastic water pipe cut and measured to the required length for a jig, placing each hull in the pipe. Then taking a box knife and cutting away what is sticking thru. One man I know just trims them on his band saw.  The finished hull will be slightly shorter than the 2/34” most are use to using. However older ‘97 Winchester’s prefer them, this short. Now that they are trimmed, I build my load. Then I place a 12 gauge Over shot card on top. I then place the loaded hull in the roll crimper. It clamps to a steady object a one inch board in a bench vise would work. I use an antique one I found on line. Around $15 cost. You can buy a commercial one from many locations that is used with a power drill to turn it. Costing about the same price. This method also works for plastic hulls.  If you’re a hell bent for speed and want to remain authentic to the era. I suggest you give these type loads a try. They were used long before the brass type. In which most feel did not evolve till World War 1.


For the sake of this article I just hand held the roll crimping
tool. Normally it is clamped to a bench of some type.


Finished rolled crimp


Same process if you would like to use plastic hulls.


Devises like the crimper die below(traditional star crimp) and the apple peeler style crimp roller
can found on many on line auction services. Good luck finding the little Lee loader I have. 
 There is also one as mentioned earlier that just chucks in to a power drill that will make a nice roll crimp. Look in shot shell loading supplies section.




I hope this has been help to the many who are wanting to cross over to the Dark Side. Loading brass hulls seems to be one of the most asked questions on many of the internet forums. After the initial investment reloading cost is much cheaper for continued enjoyment.  Just remember to wear your safety glasses, keep open flames away. I don't want to hear any whining later when you have a self inflicted boo-boo.




Weekend is here

Grab some cold ones and enjoy. Remember you can drink the beer if the "Mountains are Blue!"
http://youtu.be/V0O0nzkESTI      What ever your doing this weekend be safe!








I said, "Be safe!"




Tuesday, July 24, 2012

TUESDAY

 It's that time of the week  Here's the two fer's.



I find this one HOT! 





Sharing Pizza never looked better



From the mail bag

My good friend and old fishing buddy Mark, sent this one along

A Jack Daniels Fishing Story

I went fishing this morning, but after a short time I ran out of worms. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a cottonmouth with a frog in his mouth. "Frogs are good bass bait" I thought to myself.
Knowing the snake couldn't bite me with the frog in his mouth, I grabbed him right behind the head, took the frog, and put it in my bait bucket.
Just then, I realized I 


had a problem, how was I going to release the snake without getting bit? So, I grabbed my bottle of Jack Daniels and poured a little whiskey in its mouth. The snakes eyes rolled back and he went limp. I released him into the lake without incident and carried on fishing using the frog.

A little later, I felt a nudge at my foot. There was that same snake with two more frogs in his mouth.
Life is good in the South.

Friday, July 20, 2012

Overnight in Colorado


   I try not to get to political here and I avoid News items. It's my nature! I can not sign into my home page, turn on my TV or my radio in the Jeep and not hear what mainstream Media has to push on me. I am not going to debate the future of Gun Control or the future of the Government. I can't offer a remedy or reasoning behind such hatred. I will stop here and offer my condolences to the ones who lost loved ones last night in Colorado and a prayer of fast recovery for those wounded in a sense-less melee of violence. May Your God look over you.

aka

Shared thoughts from other Bloggers



Why I'm Not Commenting On The Shooting In Colorado

Robb Allen of Sharp as a Marble says it better than I could.
Like every other event for the past decade, the media seems to focus on being First rather than being Right. You’ll notice I didn’t qualify the media with “Main Stream” or “Legacy”, or “Dinosaur”. All media. Blogs, Tweets, forums, even chat rooms. Heck, my wife and I were talking about it this morning. I realized we were discussing things as if the information we had was pristine, accurate, and complete.

It’s not. And it won’t be for quite some time.
I don't have that need to be first so I won't be commenting on the how, the why, the who, etc. of the shooting in Aurora, CO other than to say that I'll be keeping the victims and their families in my prayers





Charlie Daniels Tweeted this earlier today

Get ready for the gun control bunch to start howling. If they have their way only thugs and murderers will have guns,laws dont effect them 

then added;

As part time resident of Colorado let me say how much I love the state and the people pray God will comfort you all at this terrible time.



Friday Funnies


Here some "Funnies" I have been stealing. Enjoy!

Stolen from Pinkarrowslingr.com


Stolen from HiPoint Forum





Unknown...this one is creepy







Thursday, July 19, 2012

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Another Hot Humid Week

Reminder  make sure you check your gun safe turn on the dehumidifying devices. Get you carry piece lubed up to protected, from your sweat and the summer humidity.
In the meantime get a cool beverage and stay hydrated if you venture out. We here in the cave have declared  the Clothing Optional Rule to be in effect till further notice.

Cave Office attire







Saturday, July 14, 2012

Too Hot

Hope these help all of you cool off!
ENJOY!


Maybe the comrades know something we don't


Maybe a cold brew would help