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    So, What Velocities Do You REALLY Get with AutoCom?

    My habit now is to do a reality check with QuickLOAD before starting my load workup. The program still doesn't have AutoComp, nor its reported burn rate/charge weight twin CFE Pistol (I think that's the one). My .357 Magnum results are curious, and more in line with what I used to get with the...
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    1860s-era Stain(s) for Stock?

    I'm finishing up repairs on an old broken gunstock and am not confident that the replacement pieces of walnut will darken up enough to suit me when I start with the linseed oil final finish. What can I use that would be consistent with the age of the gun? 1860s period. NO, not a civil war gun...
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    Um, so WHY are .38 Special "+P" Loads so Slow???

    Just chrono'd some Remington 125-gr +P JHPs out of a 6-inch revolver that usually shot most of our reloads 50-75 fps faster than another 6-inch I sold. 930 fps. Wow. In the 1980s, the nowIcan'tfind'em 125-gr Speer JHPs (had like 1/8-inch exposed lead housing the hollow point) went that fast...
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    Old(er) Alliant Load Data Chart?

    I've lost my .pdf of what I remember as being a late-1990s-early 2000s one-page load chart from Alliant, and can't find it on their website. Wondering if anyone could either point me to it or e-mail a copy. As I recall, it had the powders along the top, and calibers and bullet weights down the...
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    P.38 Slide Defeats Double-Action Trigger

    Well, unless I pull the hammer back about 2mm first. Before I get all tedious and measuring engagement surfaces between the two parts, I got a nice postwar Walther P1 slide to put on a WWII P.38, for use as a shooter. Barrel fits in just fine, all safety functions check out, and the FP...
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    1960s Tong Tool for Wax Bullets?

    I'm looking for information on an aluminum or perhaps pot metal, silver unfinished color, tong-type tool that was sold for seating primers and wax bullets. This was once popular for the Bullseye Pistol shooters. It was probably made by CCI for use with their "Red Jet" wax bullets. My Google-fu...
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    Colt Series 80 Hammer "Half-Cock"???

    Put together a bag of parts from a guy's abandoned Colt and was horrified to find that the half-cock notch did not capture the sear. Since the hammer hooks and sear were also badly boogered and the trigger pull on assembly into a firing unit was about 10 lbs, I chose to "rescue" the thing and...
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