Yul Lose

It’s not for the faint of heart because you have to drill it from both ends. If the barrel is over 20” long this drill won’t work. I have the chambers finish reamer also. There is a special high temp Loctite to glue it in. After I had the liner installed and the chambers reamed I sanded the barrel down and cold blued it and it turned out pretty nice. I didn’t have to change anything on the insides of the rifle receiver.

I bought a Redman 38-40 barrel liner and drilled out my .45 barrel and installed the 38-40 liner and it turned out real well. I’ve got the drill if you’d like to try doing it that way. This was on a Pedersoli Lightning.

Hot off the press and in the mail this morning. Thanks Bob.

Bump.

Same here, I’ve tried single cocking and got frustrated early on. Maybe I need to try it again but I’d o enjoy double cocking.

This one is for my 86 year old doctor. But I do use another one made out of white oak..

I love the antler with coin inlays. Check out Amazon for some really nice buffalo nickel buttons that work real well for what you’re doing.

Thank you and yes it is a fascinating process, even mesmerizing. When I get started on a burn it’s hard to stop because the burner has a kind of mind of its own and you can direct very little of the outcome. Lately I’ve been experimenting with less wood and more burn like on this box.

I’ll post something in the next couple of days. Keep in mind that it can be very dangerous and even deadly if you use homemade fractal burning equipment with little regard to safety. I use a very safe machine with built in safeguards. I’ve probably fractal burned 400-500 pieces over the last 5 years or so and I’m still here, but due to a few users that have electrocuted themselves doing stupid stuff with unsafe machines we all get a bad rap. I’ve had some of my pieces with fractal burning removed from shows or galleries because of the stigma. It’s kind of like when somebody does something bad with a gun all gun owners become villains.

Another good one gone, RIP Blackjack Zak.

Wish I was closer, I liked how you ran your matches over here at The Escondido Bandidos.

Guess I’ll jump in. I’ll never win as a gunfighter but I do enjoy being a double cocker. I shoot 44-40 200 grain slugs and when I hit the targets you can hear them and when I hit the targets with 2 slugs at the same time you can really hear it. I’ve done that a few times knowing my clean match was gone and have never been called for it. I quit spotting because I cannot distinguish hits and misses from light loaded pistols and can’t be fair to the shooters because unless I see the impact of the bullet behind the target I’d have to rule it a hit. Watching for the targets to move doesn’t work for me either. My hearing is really bad and then to stick ear protection in on top of it just makes it worse. The last time I spotted I was calling clean on nearly every shooter that the other spotters were calling misses on.

I finished this cane today. I’ve had it standing around the shop for a few years so I decided to get on it and finish it up. It’s cherry with fractal burned enhancements. The fractal burning itself took 5-6 hours. I finished it with 2 coats of teak oil and then 3 coats of polyurethane and a final hand rubbed Liberon bison wax coat.

Thanks, that’s the type of flask that he’s wanting to use. One flask would get him thru the match then.

He is but for the project all I’m interested in is revolver powder needs.

I’m starting to build a project for a new cap and ball shooter and need to know the amount of black or app that would be needed for a 6 stage match. Let’s say he’ll be using .44 or .45 caliber revolvers. How much powder would be enough to load the 60 rounds for a 6 stage match? Thanks for your help.

So what are you looking for? The shotgun or the chokes?

Here is a pair of Ruger Old Armies that he installed octagon barrels on and then bead blasted. He installed the brass front sight also.

How many do you need? Here are 3 types that I have a bunch of. The silver are 1/2” the black and the antique brass are 7/16”. I’d send them to you for the cost of postage. If you’re still looking you might try Van Dykes restorers, they have quite a selection.

Anyone attending EOT or other matches at the Ben Avery facility are aware of the chip (integrated circuit) factory being built just south of the range off of the 303 freeway. I can’t help but wonder when the chip people will start coming down on the shooting facility as a bad neighbor and push for it to be shut down. I hope that doesn’t happen but in today’s anti gun climate it’s a real possibility. The chip factory grows in leaps and bounds and the related development around it is spreading also. I’d heard that the Ben Avery facility is pretty well protected by the way it was set up when it was given to the state but politicians and others probably wouldn’t let that stop them if they wanted it gone bad enough.

I got to visit with Barbwire and Zona a few times last week and the new fees and requirements are substantial. Barbwire has been out there for 45 years and Zona another 20. I never shot Cow Town and I’m sorry I didn’t but from all I’ve heard over the years it was a must shoot match. Barbwire and Zona are two people to ride the river with and I wish them the best at whatever they do now.

I bought one of these for Mrs. Lose a few years ago and our windows have never been cleaner. It’s easy to use even on most second story windows, no ladder required. My granddaughter and her husband have a 2 story house and wondered if it would work on their windows so I tried it out and it worked so well that they bought their own.

Yes, Buck says it’s still for sale.

Buck is on the road on the way home so probably won’t respond until later today. The last I heard it hasn’t sold.

I’ll step aside on the Lee Factory Crimp Die if RRR wants it.