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Joined: Jun 2, 2022
Last seen: Jun 4, 2026
Topics: 41 / Replies: 1066
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Re: Slugs - reloading methodology?

I have read about sabbots, regular wads and paper patching for older (BP) shotguns.True discarding sabot style shotgun slugs (ala APDS type artillery ...

11 months ago
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Re: Slugs - reloading methodology?

I've done a lot in 12G and have molds from Lee, Lyman and Svarog.By far the most accurate and effective from that lot are the drag stabilized (sh...

11 months ago
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Re: Gunsmiths and Rails

Moral of the story - check everything yourself, don't assume anything.Another one is that it's worth tooling and skilling up for simple jobs...

11 months ago
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Re: Gunsmiths and Rails

There were 2 gentlemen shooting next to me on Saturday at Rooikraal. Both had scopes that had to be refitted as the gunsmith at one of the big name sh...

11 months ago
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Re: Gunsmiths and Rails

It's a pity that Klintworth blotted his copy book with some iffy business practices as his work was always top notch in my experience.I think the...

11 months ago
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Re: Bang.................................you dead, or worse.

Man must have been quite strong. To fully engrave one bullet with another cartridge and or push a bullet back into the case against the load with the ...

11 months ago
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Re: Quick-ish change press setup

An unplanned but in hindsight pretty obvious additional benefit of this plate system is that given a stout enough top I can clamp the presses to any t...

11 months ago
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Re: .357Mag reloading questions

A lot of people much smarter than me have tried to replicate SEE and failed. Using low loads of a fast powder in a pistol case it is very easy to doub...

11 months ago
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Re: .357Mag reloading questions

Re the low case fill with fast powder, using S121 and Titegroup in .38 and .357 with charges at or below about half way up published loads I had disco...

11 months ago
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Re: Ideal calibre for (subsonic) culling?

A silenced Ruger M77/44 which is a thing I have always lusted after would seem to be just the ticket. It was used as the basis for a reimagined De Lis...

11 months ago
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Re: Budget rifle cleaning stand.

Very neat. Have rethought the bonnet catch idea. Am rather going to have a hinged curved arm on the top with rubber on its inside edge. Will have it p...

12 months ago
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Re: Budget rifle cleaning stand.

Very nice design, consider it stolen. All I'll add is a pair of those ball end rubber bonnet catches like they used on Baja bugs for holding shot...

12 months ago
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Re: Hoeveel slag n karkas uit?

They closed down shortly after.Well at least there was that. I try to think myself into the heads of shortsighted skelms sometimes and consistently fa...

12 months ago
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Re: My son has outgrown me.

Lekker. Signs of a job well done!

12 months ago
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Re: Tiny carry guns, today's learning.

I took the little Ruger out for a 150+ round session with the cast handload that matches my carry load for velocity and very, very nearly for POI. Sho...

12 months ago
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