[What guns/gear would you buy if you had a $4500 budget?]

I must be googling wrong for Harlem Wolf as I didn't find a match.

 

 

Try this -

Marshal Harland Wolff, SASS #5019

(you can PM him by searching for his profile, and sending a private message. He still does a little gunsmithing.)

 

A web page for him:

http://www.onsp.us/Profiles/5019.html

 

 

 

Shotgun Boogie originally from Germany, now from Southern California. Does a lot of gunsmithing.

 

Good luck, GJ

[What length 1873 on most using?]

Ditto on 20" octagonal barrel, straight grip stock.

 

It's what is cheapest. It's what is most commonly in stock. It's fast and fairly light without getting whippy and sliding past targets when you have to shift aim. It fits through most doorways and windows nicely. It doesn't need a 6'4" football star to get it quickly into action.

 

Get a 20" octagonal straight grip, but only after you try it and decide you like it. Just because all the other lemmings pards have one, doesn't mean you will like it. But then, I've got 3 and wish the other one was the same 20" straight grip, too.

 

Good luck, GJ

[Le Mat Revolvers in SASS?]

Clumsy, heavy, hard to find leather for, and a tough trigger pull.

 

Otherwise, have fun.

 

Good luck, GJ

[Rossi 92 Questions, Update: Got my rifle...]

1. Is the action of the Rossi 92 as strong as a Winchester's?

Strong enough to let you bruise yourself if you ever try to break it with .45 Colt rounds. Yes, it's strong. It's the vertical locking bolt design that makes it so.

 

2. Is the Rossi cartridge length sensitive or are they okay as long as the cartridges are within SAAMI specs?

 

Can be, will depend upon how well that particular lifter arm was tuned. If it's not, NKJ can sure slick it up, as can several other pards.

3. Is the rifling on Rossi barrels suitable for accuracy out to 100 yards?

 

Nope, it will never be good enough to shoot one hole 5 shot groups at 100 yards (that would be, in my book, superb accuracy).

 

Now, will it be enough to satisfy YOU? You haven't told us what you would be satisfied with. 5" groups? Most likely any one of their 92s will do that with a load that rifle likes. Minute of hog chest at 100 yards? Yep, unless you get a really bad one.

 

Accuracy in a rifle really can't be "foretold" - you gotta buy one and shoot it and even tune your loads for it. But then, you knew that.

 

Good luck, GJ

[Bullet Casters : Need your Advice]

I bought the new Lyman Mag 25, holds 25# of melt, and has excellent temp control with it's built in PID controller. .

 

Please keep us updated with the electronics on the Lyman Mag 25. I've read TONS of reviews saying those just do not hold up well, and they get replaced with a bolt on PID controller after a year or two.

 

 

a friend's RCBS drips

And mine don't, unless I have Ca contaminated alloy that cools in the nozzle. As always, mileage varies.

 

 

Thanks, GJ

[Bullet Casters : Need your Advice]

Had an old Lyman bottom pour back in the 70s. Like late 50's vintage. Not quite the temperature control I wanted. But a good pot. Lyman not quite making the same quality pots any more, though.

 

Have used two Lee bottom pour pots, both had HORRIBLE temperature control and would never cast without dripping, despite valve grinding compounding the valve and lots of other recommended tinkering.

 

Bought an RCBS Pro-Melt. Lost it to a burglar. Bought a second Pro-Melt. Wonderful temperature control and very minimal dripping problems. Love it so much, got another Pro-Melt for rifle bullet alloy, since a guy was letting a lightly used one go for about $275.

 

Oldest one probably had 25,000 bullets cast without a problem. The mid-age one is now 12 years old and has cast over 50,000 bullets. Think I'll keep using Pro-Melts.

 

If I get a drip problem now on a pot-full of alloy, I KNOW there is 0.5 to 1% calcium metal in that scrap. It forms a collar down in the spout that is just about impossible to burn out until you add 80-120 degrees F extra heat to the melt.

 

Good luck, GJ

[Reloading hunting rifle question]

Thanks everyone for the input. I know it always takes range time with various loads to find that "sweet one". BTW Big Sage, it is no longer necessary to only change one variable at a time - statistical design of experiments provides the methodology to reduce the number of iterations in a controlled manner and derive even more info such as interactions between variables than is possible with the one at a time approach.

Thanks to G.E.P Box and K. B. Wilson. A tip of the old statistical hat!

[Reloading hunting rifle question]

Each gun is different enough that the only way to find which will be "most accurate" is to try the load in your son's gun. Sometimes the loading manual makes a suggestion that turns out to be best in one of my rifles. Often, though, another powder works better for my gun.

 

The data in loading manuals are only compiled from firing loads in one test barrel (in this case, the one barrel that Nosler has). And often that "test firearm" is not a hunting gun, but a test fixture.

 

Good luck, GJ