Lead Monger

Hi Gunleather. Pokin A. Long has been running a Sharp Tail coach gun for a couple seasons now. Out of the box it has a few problems. Very stiff and does not open very wide. It also springs closed just a bit and empty’s can hang up coming out. The gun also has a massive extractor that for some folks is an issue. With that said. Installing a Shotgun Boggy spring kit, adjusting the cocking rods to allow for wider opening and no spring back and polishing the hing and small parts makes a fine shotgun. Trimming the extractor can be done if it interferes with your style of loading and the usual polishing of the chambers helps just like any other shotgun. The mechanical single trigger is very reliable. Using AA LNLR shells and an even lighter hand load it has never failed to fire. Lead Monger

That looks like soft solder. Clean it and solder it back on. Or have a local Smith do it for you.

I like my CZ Hammer Coach Gun very much. I lightened the hammer springs myself and did a bit of smoothing and polishing. It drops open on command and is easy to cock. No misfires and shucks AA LNLR shells with ease. It handles GOEX just fine as well.

I’ve been using cascade powder in a wet tumbler with or without pins for a few years. Deprime first and it works great. I don’t use the pins or lime away on nickel cases. Brass comes out bright and clean inside and out. No dust! All the gunk goes down the drain.

Hornady and Speer both have 148g HBWC that work great in my Uberti 1861 Navys. Loaded into a 38 special case with about 1/16” of lead poking out and a light taper crimp they fit nicely in the conversion cylinders with a 375 throat. It only takes around 2.6 grains of Bulseye to get excellent accuracy. I found 2.8 grains of Red Dot worked great also.

Loaded many thousands of 38 specials with 3.0 grains of Bullseye under a coated 125 TCFP bullet and a Fed. SP primer. Works in revolvers and toggle rifles like a charm.

If you can find one Browning has a very nice lever action 22 youth model. It is light weight and short. A bit stiff when new but has a very short stroke built it from the factory.

Don't forget the government made a lot of 45cal. Revolver cartridges with a little bit shorter case. It would also fit the Schofield.

The Taurus Thunderbolt has a long pedigree of jamming, breaking and no parts available. There is a reason you don't see many of them on the firing line. I have one. It works sometimes. It might run for three shots or therty shots. When it hangs up i have to take it apart to clear the jam. I would never recommend the Taurus Thunderbolt.

I have used HSM bullets in 38, 44 and 45 calibers. They work fine but there are less expensive alternatives. I like S&S and Rim Rock for Cowboy quantities.

Those targets and stands look great. Use them with the same caution you use when shooting ANY hard surface with a bullet. Set them at the recommended distance or further and ware your eye protection.

Hammer and dolly leaving small dimple. Clean well, tin and fill with solder. Prime and paint.

No need to bash Kalifornia. They can't quit the US. Evan if they could secede the US could just turn off the water and Kalifornia would be a very different place. That water can feed crops in other states.

Indian has been reinvented two or three times in the last couple decades. Aftermarket frames with another company's engine. Stick them together with skirted finders and call it an Indian. You could build the entire bike yourownself with a catalog. Once they got their own engine in production that became lagit. I have three Harley's. The newest is a 1993 FLHTCU. I can not buy parts for my 93 Ultra from Harly Davidson.

For high pressure and bottle neck rifle cases I use imperial wax or Rcbs case lube on a pad. This includes 50 BMG. For sass revolver type cases I use clean cases in a carbide die. Clean cases in a nitrited die works ok also.