What did you do today in the world of reloading?
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fishingsetx
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Not quite awesome yet! Once its complete and Actually works, then it'll be awesome! only short cuts I took were, I was given some powdered charcoal by a friend who makes BP on a regular basis and I used granular salt peter (milled to powder) rather than making or collecting it. If this batch turns out good, my next batch will be made with homemade willow charcoal. I get the sulfur in chunks from work. We use molten sulfur as one of our feed stocks and the truck drivers are always spilling a little here and there while unloading.
well, either it will work, wont work, or I blow my ball mill to smitherienes! When running, its out in the middle of the driveway, so nothing to damage except the ball mill itself!
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit....what a ride!"
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Looks a little heavy on the chamfer.Trying to be more precise with my new rifle so I'm measuring everything.
If anybody needs to borrow a 6.5 chamber length gage insert let me know.
It is a nice cut but I chamfer just enough to get the slag off. I like a flat top edge.
But to each their own.
fishingsetx
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Finally got my dextrin right. I burnt the first batch because I forgot it was in the oven. Second batch came out perfect. Threw in 1% by weight to my black powder mix and ball milled it for a few more hours.
Mixed in enough water to make a dough, then started screening and drying of the black powder.
I accidentally added too much distilled water, so I had to break up the dough ball and let it dry some before I could screen it. Thats why there are wet black powder meteorites scattered around the screen!
Screened powder in one pan. Just gotta wait a day or two for it to dry.
Still gotta break it up and give it one more screening to get a uniform size (shooting for FFFg). Then remix the stuff that is too small and redo the leftovers. After that, its back into the mill without the lead balls. Just a dose of graphite and a few hours tumbling to polish up the grains (thats the difference between FFFa and FFFg). From what ive read, The finish polish gives a better burn and the graphite helps prevent moisture absorbtion. I should end up with about 1/2 lb once everything is said and done (I started with 9.8 oz, but will loose a little throughout the process.)
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit....what a ride!"
Mixed in enough water to make a dough, then started screening and drying of the black powder.
I accidentally added too much distilled water, so I had to break up the dough ball and let it dry some before I could screen it. Thats why there are wet black powder meteorites scattered around the screen!
Screened powder in one pan. Just gotta wait a day or two for it to dry.
Still gotta break it up and give it one more screening to get a uniform size (shooting for FFFg). Then remix the stuff that is too small and redo the leftovers. After that, its back into the mill without the lead balls. Just a dose of graphite and a few hours tumbling to polish up the grains (thats the difference between FFFa and FFFg). From what ive read, The finish polish gives a better burn and the graphite helps prevent moisture absorbtion. I should end up with about 1/2 lb once everything is said and done (I started with 9.8 oz, but will loose a little throughout the process.)
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit....what a ride!"
I drank some bourbon and got loaded again. Does that count?
Work for 6.5jap?Trying to be more precise with my new rifle so I'm measuring everything.
If anybody needs to borrow a 6.5 chamber length gage insert let me know.
I like it
You have way too much free time
Only scotch. Oh wait.... This is texas so bourbon is ok
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fishingsetx
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I have an 8 month pregnant wife and a 4 year old, work 40-50 hrs a week at my real job (7a-330p not including the hour drive to and from work)and have a side job I work almost every evening and on weekends on for a few hours a day!! Luckily Im a night owl and usually do my tinkering from 9pm to 11 pm or so after my son and wife go to bed. Thats the only "free" time I normally have. Get up at 5 and do it all over again! I did take this morning off so right now, im sitting under a pin oak watching a small oak flat, hoping a bushytail tree rat will make a wrong move! An hour in and nothing, but at least its some relaxation time!
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit....what a ride!"
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fishingsetx
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7 and diet coke make the perfect drink for tinkering in the workshop. A good sipping tequilla for relaxing!
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit....what a ride!"
Ditto!
fishingsetx
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Ended up with just under half a lb (6.8 oz to be exact). I still have some to rerun that either was too big of grain or too small. Loaded up one cylinder of my new model army .44 with 25 gr of powder and topped it with a round ball. sgepped outside, capped it and fired a shot down into the ditch behind the house (nowhere to shoot safely other than the ditch). BOOM! Scared the hell out of the neighbors. They were standing in their back yard about 30 or 40 yards away. I didnt see them due to the wood line.
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit....what a ride!"
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit....what a ride!"
