Scotsgun wrote:Personally i enjoyed the videos. They were clear, consice and well taken. Personally i'd be interested in seeing the creation of a library of videos sourced from our requests. I want to see a good video showing how to make a casting from a barrel and action.
A quick question, what are the benefits of a AI rifle over the 'normal' one, e.g .243AI over a .243.
Almost forgot, what is the dinky little press and where'd you get it?
an ackleyfied case blows the normal shoulder out to 40 deg allowing approx 3-5 % more room for more powder thus giving more velocity with bigger loads
the press is a sinclair arbor press
enjoy
Re: Cream of wheat fire forming.
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:30 pm
by spud
dromia wrote:No problem Spud we are all trying to do the same thing, share the little we know.
Trouble with me is I'm at the point where I've forgotten more than I know now. :shock:
what back ground you got in firearms dromia ive seen your collection so i am guessing ex militry by chance
Re: Cream of wheat fire forming.
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:05 pm
by dromia
No not miltary, was in the air cadets and got one of those RAF scholarships for university but lost it when me and the air cadet squadron CO had an altercation he lost. I never could take being told what to to do by a**eholes so I obviously wasn't a disciplined service type. If I had joined there would have been a confrontation that I would certainly have lost so it ended well.
Firearms background pretty much self taught, born and brought up with shotguns and rifles on the croft in the highlands. Worked the estates from the age of 12 as Ghillie/Stalker and Keeper then when at Edinburgh university I dabbled in target rifle but then took up fencing seriously I still shot game and clays though. Then got into pistol shooting and military rifle/pistol shooting and collecting in the early eighties and did that 'till the ban in 1997, then concentrated on military rifle collecting and shooting. I have section 7.3 so still shoot pistol. Regular attender and competitor at Pistol AD/Phoenix, HAM and the Trafalgar for more years than I care to remember and have had the odd competitive success. NRA qualified RCO, NSRA qualified RCO, NRA qualified Club Instructor. HBSA full voting member, have given lectures and workshops over the years on firearms history, hand loading and boolit casting. Served in various capacities on club committees currently chairman of St Giles Yarners rifle and pistol club. Been handloading and boolit casting since I was eight years old with my father and various keepers and stalkers I was lucky enough to meet and work with. Now having retired from the world of work I'm self employed as a RFD specialising in historic firearms and hard to source cast boolit supplies
There is a snapshot of a lifetime with guns and shooting just as many others here have done, so nothing special really. I feel myself fortunate to have found such a rewarding interest and passion that has been my companion all of my life so far.
Sorry to bore but you did ask.
Re: Cream of wheat fire forming.
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:16 pm
by spud
dromia wrote:No not miltary, was in the air cadets and got one of those RAF scholarships for university but lost it when me and the air cadet squadron CO had and altercation he lost. I never could take being told what to to do by a**eholes so I obviously wasn't a disciplined service type. If I had joined there would have been a confrontation that I would certainly have lost so it ended well.
Firearms background pretty much self taught, born and brought up with shotguns and rifles on the croft in the highlands. Worked the estates from the age of 12 as Ghillie/Stalker and Keeper then when at Edinburgh university I dabbled in target rifle but then took up fencing seriously I still shot game and clays though. Then got into pistol shooting and military rifle/pistol shooting and collecting in the early eighties and did that 'till the ban in 1997, then concentrated on military rifle collecting and shooting. I have section 7.3 so still shoot pistol. Regular attender and competitor at Pistol AD/Phoenix, HAM and the Trafalgar for more years than I care to remember and have had the odd competitive success. NRA qualified RCO, NSRA qualified RCO, NRA qualified Club Instructor. HBSA full voting member, have given lectures and workshops over the years on firearms history, hand loading and boolit casting. Served in various capacities on club committees currently chairman of St Giles Yarners rifle and pistol club. Been handloading and boolit casting since I was eight years old with my father and various keepers and stalkers I was lucky enough to meet and work with. Now having retired from the world of work I'm self employed as a RFD specialising in historic firearms and hard to source cast boolit supplies
There is a snapshot of a lifetime with guns and shooting just as many others here have done, so nothing special really. I feel myself fortunate to have found such a rewarding interest and passion that has been my companion all of my life so far.
Sorry to bore but you did ask.
bore away mate i bet youve seen some really unusal and exspesive guns in your time
Re: Cream of wheat fire forming.
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:35 am
by dromia
Aye, I have and fortunately still do.
However when I was a young 'un I saw, handled, cleaned and sometimes shot a lot of very nice shotguns and rifles. I just have a nagging and futile regret that I didn't have the knowledge behind my eyes then that I do now so as to have appreciated and understood more the value of what I was working with. I was fascinated even then by their beauty and quality but never thought about their historic value and their rarity and future rarity, beyond the lodges and the worlds that their owners lived in.
