The .270 is finished (mostly) and a Range Trip
When we last heard about my Grandmother’s Remington 721 in .270 Winchester (Adventures in Rifle Bedding) I had gotten as far as trying to mount the scope ...
Author: Timothy Foreman
Gun Regulation Suggestions
I shamelessly stole this from William over at The Liberal Gun Club forums and made a few modifications. He originally posted it as a letter he sent to Vice Pres...
Moving from Serendipity to WordPress
I think I have all the steps figured out now, so I should probably document them for others: Install WordPress 2.x. Yes, 2.x. You can download older versions he...
Moving the blog
I’m moving my blog from Serendipity to WordPress. Mainly just to see if it’s really better. So it turns out I may have been using an old version of ...
Adventures in rifle bedding
I brought my Grandmothers old deer hunting rifle home this summer. It’s a Remington 721 in .270 Winchester from about 1949. The action and barrel are in p...
Range Trip – 20120914
Dave and I went to the range after work today. I brought my four wheel guns (how do they keep multiplying like that?) Two black powder, one rim fire and one cen...
Making a temperature controller
Lead melts around 600 degrees. My melting pot has a basic thermostat marked 1-10. It’s nice to know how hot your lead is when casting, as it aids in consi...
IM with Stef
I just had the following IM conversation with my 19 year old daughter: Stef: Why did you order a box of lead? Me: for making bullets! Me: is it heavy? Stef: ver...
Gumption Trap!
There I was, cruising along, building the fence for my new router table… I was working off some plans I found on the internet but I needed to change some ...
Adventures in Pan Lubing Boolits
So the next step after casting boolits is to apply lube to them. There are several ways to do this. I decided to try pan lubing them. Supposedly that’s as...