Range Trip – 20140407
I had to take my Mother to the eye doctor today, and since she lives near the Oakdale Gun Club, I brought along my smoke wagons (and the 1911.) I got to the ran...
Tag: Shooting
Caliber Comparison
Just for fun I took a kinda crappy photo of the various caliber ammunition I happen to have around. I don’t have guns for all of these, just most. I numbe...
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...
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...
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...
Cast my first boolits tonight!
I got 69 usable .45 cal 200 grain SWC and 23 usable .45 cal 255 grain SWC done before the on-call phone went off and I had to stop. It was 9:00 anyway. They loo...
Making Cartridge Boxes – A How-To
This is going to be very long, and picture heavy, so be warned. This post is how I go from these raw materials: to this finished product: So, if you are interes...
Range Report – 02/18/2012
I joined the Oakdale Gun Club a couple of weeks ago and I took Dave there on Sunday for some shooting. It was my first trip since joining the club. We got there...
Range Report – Friday, November 25th
Since I had Friday off, and since it was relatively nice out (for November 25th anyway), and since I hadn’t been shooting for quite a long time, I thought...