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  1. ndwind

    Airgun Anonymous

    I won't stop either! Always looking for more.
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    Show me your first gun.

    Thanks for posing that question! Mine was a Daisy BB gun the one with the palimino colored stock with the Daisy pledge embosed in the stock. I shot sparrows off the peak of the barn. Mom would by the big tubes of daisy BBs for us when she got groceries. This was about 1961 or 1962. And yes in...
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    N/A Who's Casting or Wants to Learn?

    wow!! nice job and good looking mold. did you buy blocksor did you do thoase as well?
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    N/A Sizeing Airgun Slugs

    I forgot I was going to post pics of my setup. The one pic is of the stand I made to hold the spool of lead wire and the core cutter. the punch in the top of the press is the X punch witch segments the core. then change dies and form the nose and base one pass and finishe slug. one pic shows a...
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    N/A Sizeing Airgun Slugs

    I figured cost of the slugs im currently swaging. Im not figureing the cost of equipment because it will last the rest of my life. And i dont figure my time either. Because here in ND from November to April I have a lot of time. Id rather swage slugs for summer shooting than sit looking out...
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    N/A Sizeing Airgun Slugs

    I am currently swaging 22 with lots of options with different punches. My Panthera is shooting under an inch at 100yds with my swaged 35.8 grain slugs. I am using lead wire from Corbin. Currently it's $66.00 a ten pound spool. I have a lot of lead so I will get a core mold so I am independent...
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    N/A Sizeing Airgun Slugs

    Ill be 70 in a couple weeks.and ive been casting and reloading for PB since i was 20. And im still learning! I just got into PCP guns about two years ago. Wow what fun and so much more to learn and expirment with! I got my first Corbin equipment last July. so now also swageing slugs. Corbin...
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    Question about slugs for .22

    I swaged some 23 grain slugs and shot them in my Gammo Fusion. They worked fine just not real fast! But they took out cottontail in the garden just fine!
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    N/A Sizeing Airgun Slugs

    last fall I ordered a mold and I had it in three weeks!
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    N/A Sizeing Airgun Slugs

    Have you checked accurate molds? He has an extensive cataloge. He may have something that would work. He will make to your specs as well. Not cheap but top shelf quality and actually resonable for custom molds. I have several of them and they cast great bullets!
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    N/A Sizeing Airgun Slugs

    Maybe look at bullet molds meant for 50 cal pistol .They will have a bigger lube groove that might accomadate the displaced lead. Or try a smaller diameter bullet of really soft lead and maybe it will bump up on take off and fill the bore.
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    N/A Sizeing Airgun Slugs

    I shoot cast bullets in my 45 Ibex.I cast 20-1 pure lead pure tin. then size to .457 and lube. I use my Lyman 450 sizer lubrecator. I already had it because I shoot a lot of cast bullets in my PB. the lube I use is the same thing I use for my Black Powder guns. I make it with one tube of Tap...
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    N/A Who's Casting or Wants to Learn?

    I use 20-1 pure lead-tin. The same alloy I use for my Black Powder cartridge rifles and Muzzleloaders. I cast slugs for my Veradium Air tuned 45 Ibex. Curntely using an old Lyman 300 grain flat point sized .457 and lubed with the same lube I use for my powder burners. It shoots real good at...
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    Hello from The Netherlands

    welcome from North Dakota! Winter storm coming in we wont be shooting outside for awhile yet!
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    New Member Here

    welcome from the north end of the country! i am new s well about a month now. Its a freindly fun information rabbit hole. wait till you discover the classifieds!
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    Garmin Chronograph

    It's the FX pocket chronograph I bought it about a year ago. How a bought $135 SHIPPED IN THE LOWER 48
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    What's your weather like, and are you shooting outside?

    Yup I live 15 minutes from Woogie we have two winter storms coming in ND. Thursday evening into Friday then Sunday afternoon into Tuesday morning. By the end of it could have over a foot of snow iin SE ND. SSSHHHAAAZZZBUT!!!!
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    Garmin Chronograph

    All I use anymore is the Garmin. Small easy to use recharbale on board battery.. My friend and I each have the FX and we had a Labradar. We sold the Labradar. that was the most cumbeersome user unfriendly thing Ive ever used and a battery eater! In fact if someone wants an FX ill sell mine.