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  2. 10/22 25 round Mags

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    On 09/11/2019 at 15:19, Ah8217bris said:

    Ruger 10/22 - 25 shot bx25 magazine and clear 10 round one. Selling together. Average condition and need a clean. £25 posted.

    Sorry I am just seeing this. I am happy to take the mags if they are still available?

     

  7. Soldiers who served in N.I during the 'Troubles'

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    Born and raised in N.I, sad times indeed. I was lucky to have parents that moved us out of Belfast to a town not far away but it meant we where sheltered from most of the bad stuff going on.

    I have a wife who's dad was killed by the I.N.L.A, which was a case of mistaken identity.....I think most families in the country where touched in some way or another.

    I have the utmost respect for the young lads in the army that where sent over here to try to keep the peace and it still hurts when i think about how some of them died.

    Some of my best friends are Catholics that grew up on the Falls road or the Short Strand and i have heard some of there stories and it all sucks....

     

    Lets just hope the peace here lasts. The muppets at Stormont don't seem to care. As another poster above wrote, 99% of the people in N.I just want to get along, live their lives and religion plays no part in it.

  10. Brass

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    Hey guys

     

    I'm after .44 Brass either Magnum or Special and .45 Long Colt Brass

     

    I will take either in any quantity at a fair price

     

    Cheers

    Simon

  12. Ponsness warren

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    It was my belief you changed your mind?

     

    Sadly no, i am still waiting on you boxing the machine and telling me how i can pay. I shall struggle on with my Lee Load All until such times as a decent machine becomes available.

  14. .357 mag/38 special reloading

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    no, i think john at FES sells it.

     

    its a phenominal powder, i tested alot, i got 1000/ kg of powder in 12gauge, and thats 500+bar and 1300fps. that is outstanding.

    i also did a 24g load that is phenominal, that is just under 740bar

    its good for 28gram fibre subsonics, 21gram lead fibre loads.

     

    i`ve seen the peaks that come from the pressure barrel. and its just shy of stunning, i`ve never used a powder so fast, and really was to be messing with 21g #4s for kids. it peaks and is done and dusted before

    any other powder. now, because it peaks so sharp it can be variable, although it was just shy of stunning in the higher 740bar. the 28g subs are consistant when oting for a slightly quicker, than i actually published. at 13.2 grains in 12gauge just to up the pressure a tad and get a more usable shell thats low gas volume and is silent in moderated guns.

     

    roughshooter developed a 21g version.

     

    Hi cookoff, you have me intrigued with the BA 10 information you have posted. Would it be cheeky of me to ask you to PM me some 12 gauge load data for BA 10? It is a powder i am easily able to obtain and if it's useable in small quantities then it may be a cheaper load for me instead of the AS i have been using. I use BA 9 for other reloading and i like the way it meters compared to the AS flakes,

     

    Thanks for your time

  19. Reclaimed lead?

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    They used to collect it from the busy clay ranges but there is too much steel in it now. On a busy DTL range nearly all the shot would be landing in virtually the same place and you could pin tarps out on the ground and collect plenty

     

    Sounds like a great plan, quick question how would a person figure out where the shot was landing in order to put the tarps down?

     

    We shoot over a grassy field (quite high grass)

  22. Shotshell Reloading your Thoughts?

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    Both unlikely.

     

    All other factors being equal, large shot should pattern better than small shot since the same absolute deformation results in proportionately less deformation if the shot is larger.

     

    All other factors being equal, slower cartridges should pattern better than faster ones as the forces involved in driving the pellets down the barrel and through the choke are proportionately smaller, usually resulting in lesser deformation of individual pellets.

     

    I would suggest that it is likely - if not detectably so - that your shot is less uniform than factory shot (I'm assuming you don't have a shot tower and are therefore using the slope-aperture-warm coolant method) and that when the forces / resistances of being propelled at over 1000fps through air are taken into account, the slightly-more-elliptical shot that you have produced is demonstrating its non-uniformity in a way that your patterns can display.

     

    It's been said before on this thread: try buying decent factory shot and saving money on the other components.

     

    Or I'll repeat my advice - cheap factory loads will be better than cheap home loads. Load something unusual, or buy factory 12 gauge shells for best (cheap) results.

     

    Buying shot is not an option as it puts the price of reloading stupidly high, compared to cheap factory.

     

    Sadly maybe your right and I should just stick to buying factory and quit while i can.....

  23. Shotshell Reloading your Thoughts?

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    Ok i did some pattern testing yesterday.

     

    All testing was done at 30 yards Under Barrel (3/4 choke)

     

    Fired the factory Danarms 28g 71/2 shell first, pattern was tight although quite small and high but if the clay was in the zone it was dead.

     

    None of my own shells would pattern as tight, i tried shot from 26 grams to 32 grams with varying powder charges.

     

    They all made decent attempts at covering the area i was shooting at (cardboard roughly 30" x 30") but none patterned as tightly as the factory.

     

    Maybe it's the fact my shot is slightly larger than the factory?

     

    The 32 gram shell did have pellets hit almost all over the cardboard, maybe if i up the speed on that cartridge i will get tighter pattern?

     

    Hmm what to do next i wonder

  24. Shotshell Reloading your Thoughts?

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    there are better powders for 24g loads.

    the funny thing is with AS, it was designed and made for 1200fps 1,1/8oz loads. and that it does very nicely at about 19grains. it isnt just mined out of the ground or is just found, its designed for an industrial application.

    nobel used to publish 32g loads for this but stopped. i have no idea why, but it is a staple for average / slow 1,1/8oz loads.

    it is for fast 1oz loads but needs to be ramped up in powder charges, and that goes for 24-25 gram loads too. while its not wrong, its not exactly economicly viable either at 2x.x powder charges.

     

    however, a whole bunch of these shells have been made with the exact components... this is one of the loads i teach, supersparks, AS and 25g lead. its been made in every configuration ranging from #5-all the way to #9 (sadly i rarely load 8s)

    these have taken game too.

    No particularly after a 24g load, just after a good load for clay busting using the components i have (and can get) Vectan AS, Guilandi Spark Wads, CCI primers, my own shot, scavenged PT 70mm cases

     

     

     

    Cook the reason they stopped is that people actually try to copy the published load when is renowned that 'factory' powders are a lot faster than 'retail' ones.

     

    The load i have used in the past for AS when shooting clays is:

     

    PPS 12/70/ 688 (or CX2000, no 616) 1,40 g 21.6 gr) x 28 g and this returned 415 m/s V1

     

    This was over 10 years ago and my AS was slow burning and could send it to 30g no bother so, it might have changed quite a bit since.

     

    Also, wad will influence your pattern in 2 ways: 1- the way the wad patterns naturally, 2- the way the wad affects the pressure; which, in turns, affects your pattern.

     

    As advised, try to pattern test your load at a distance you feel comfy shooting clays; if the pattern is too tight then your low in pressure; if it's too open you might be over the load expected pressure.

     

    Cheers,

     

    Thanks for that, i think testing is the way to go, instead of turning up on club day and wondering why i'm missing

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