The firearm thread

[The Pastor]

I dress up every Tuesdays as its lady's night at the bar and ladies get half price drinks!

[jono035]

I dress up every Tuesdays as its lady's night at the bar and ladies get half price drinks!

You can drop the 'half price drinks' excuse, we're all friends here...

Building a standard target thrower would be pretty easy, but then again throwers are pretty cheap, $100 for a cheapy...

Indy: Depending on barrel condition, it looks like there are quite a few people who fire cast bullets, gas checked or not in Mosins... Apparently quite a few people saying that they can get better accuracy by tailoring the projectile size to the barrel size given that it can be a bit variable.

[jono035]

Indy: Looking around the Cast Boolits forums, it would seem that there are plenty of people shooting cast bullets with gas checked up to 2000 fps and plain lead up to 1500 fps with great success... In a few of the rougher barrelled cases they recommend fire lapping, but that's a pretty simple procedure. They are also using small charges (8-14 gr) of pistol powders such as Universal or Unique (precisely the same powder as the AP70N I use in my 9mm).

If you were wanting to shoot them a fair bit, a little bit of work with choosing the pick of your selection in terms of barrel condition, slugging it to find out the size and then making some loads with pistol powders (paying careful attention to avoid overcharging) could probably get something that shoots cheap ammo better than your random military surplus stuff.

A couple of inches at 100 yards seems to be a common outcome with one guy saying his M38 stays in the black on a standard pistol target at 200m, thats about 6" diameter.

Edit: Another distinct advantage of reloads over milsurp, no corrosive primers!

[Indiana_Jones]

Indy: Looking around the Cast Boolits forums, it would seem that there are plenty of people shooting cast bullets with gas checked up to 2000 fps and plain lead up to 1500 fps with great success... In a few of the rougher barrelled cases they recommend fire lapping, but that's a pretty simple procedure. They are also using small charges (8-14 gr) of pistol powders such as Universal or Unique (precisely the same powder as the AP70N I use in my 9mm).

If you were wanting to shoot them a fair bit, a little bit of work with choosing the pick of your selection in terms of barrel condition, slugging it to find out the size and then making some loads with pistol powders (paying careful attention to avoid overcharging) could probably get something that shoots cheap ammo better than your random military surplus stuff.

A couple of inches at 100 yards seems to be a common outcome with one guy saying his M38 stays in the black on a standard pistol target at 200m, thats about 6" diameter.

Edit: Another distinct advantage of reloads over milsurp, no corrosive primers!

Good write-up Jono, cheers

and yea, the last point is a good bonus, damn salt primers!

We shall discuss more in person on Sat I believe, also how did you plan to get there? similar arrangement as last time?

-Indy

[Indiana_Jones]

Oh oh 5000 posts! lol

-Indy

[jono035]

Oh oh 5000 posts! lol

-Indy

*facepalm*

Don't know about transport arrangements for saturday... I'm happy enough to drive again if need be but the $75 in fuel from the last round trip was a little crippling!

[The Pastor]

I'll see my own way there

[Indiana_Jones]

If that's the case Jonno I can make my own way there too.

Don't wanna be a burdon

-Indy

[jono035]

Well unless anyone else can give me a ride down then it looks like I'll be driving anyway

[Indiana_Jones]

Only got a bike heh.

-Indy

[jono035]

Only got a bike heh.

-Indy

You're going to take the scrambler down with the rifles over your shoulder?

[Indiana_Jones]

You're going to take the scrambler down with the rifles over your shoulder?

Hasn't stopped me before lol

-Indy

[jono035]

Hasn't stopped me before lol

-Indy

Well you could always just scrambler as far as Mt Eden...

[Indiana_Jones]

Well you could always just scrambler as far as Mt Eden...

That I could. I'll give you a text tomorrow etc, see what the weather is upto

Hoping it bloody clears up.

-Indy

[jono035]

That I could. I'll give you a text tomorrow etc, see what the weather is upto

Hoping it bloody clears up.

-Indy

No joke, I've been watching the metservice website slowly crap in my cornflakes for the past week... It went from fine with light showers to pissing down with possible thunder.