What gun stuff did you buy today?
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5 Glock 19 Gen 5 magazines from PSA, $24.99 each pls tax, free shipping if ordering 5 or more. That will bring my total of Glock 19 mags to about 12 fairly new ones (purchased in last couple to few months) and about 9 (or more) older ones. Maybe I should have ordered 5 more but need to order some dog food from Chewy.com, and some stuff from Costco before spending more on guns & ammo type things.
When I was in high school some friends and I did Civil War reenactment with our History teacher. We used to roll them out of that brown paper mailing tape with the water activated glue on the back. Make a tube with a 2in piece of 3"width tape, wet the edge of the back and roll it on a 1/2 dowel. Make 50 or 100 tubes and let then dry. Then twist the bottoms. Fill the tubes with powder and fold over the top edge and twist once. Of course in reenactments you never had any .58 cal balls/minie balls. You just pour the powder down the barrel, put a cap on and fire. Just pushing the air column out of a .58 Enfield makes a good boom. I think you could make some live cartridges the same way by wrapping the front of the tube around the ball instead of a dowel. fold the top over the ball. Pour the powder in the bottom and twist shut. We used to bite the top off the blanks before pouring the powder in. I think you could pop the minie ball out with your fingers, pour the powder down, use the cartridge paper as wadding, then ram the ball down. I hardly ever shot any balls out of my Enfield. What do you black powder guys say?
Reenacting blanks are easy to make.
Back when I reenacted I used newspaper for making tubes.
What i want to make now is nitrated paper Sharps cartridges.
These require more labor to manufacture.
First you have to acquire paper. I’m going to attempt to use coffee maker filter paper. This paper is recommended as it is very porous yet holds together when wet.
Soak the papers in a water and potassium nitrate solution.
Set out paper to dry.
Cut papers into the correct trapezoid shape.
Glue the paper to the skirt of the bullets and roll into a tube.
Allow glue to set.
Add powder. Fold the tail and done.
I used to do this on the ringtail bullet by tying the tube to the bullet with a string.
The new bullet mould i purchased is a historically correct bullet design from the war. We will see.
Back when I reenacted I used newspaper for making tubes.
What i want to make now is nitrated paper Sharps cartridges.
These require more labor to manufacture.
First you have to acquire paper. I’m going to attempt to use coffee maker filter paper. This paper is recommended as it is very porous yet holds together when wet.
Soak the papers in a water and potassium nitrate solution.
Set out paper to dry.
Cut papers into the correct trapezoid shape.
Glue the paper to the skirt of the bullets and roll into a tube.
Allow glue to set.
Add powder. Fold the tail and done.
I used to do this on the ringtail bullet by tying the tube to the bullet with a string.
The new bullet mould i purchased is a historically correct bullet design from the war. We will see.
Ahhh...I see. Now I think I remember those Sharps rifles. So you load the paper cartridges in the breach?
Yes the .54 Sharps is a breechloader.
I went to a gun show with about $600 cash and my plastic this afternoon. Was thinking of buying anything that might have been a bargain or at least at a decent price. I did not spend a penny and wasted three hours of drive time round trip, a few gallons of gas and the$9.00 admission fee.
500 rounds of 9mm JHP, 115 grain, (run of the mill stuff, nothing special) asking $999.99
200 Rounds of Winchester 5.56 M855, asking $300.00
Mosin Nagant Izhevsk, asking $800.00 and I am pretty sure numbers did not match and it was an average MN at best. The best price I saw on a Mosin Nagant, and I looked at several was $450.00.
Remington Nylon 66 Mohawk Brown, asking $800.00
Winchester Super-X, 12 Ga. Slugs, 2.75" - 7 shells wrapped in plastic kitchen wrap, asking $24.00
Remington Core Lokt 30-30, asking $60.00
I had to pretty much stop looking at prices otherwise my head might have exploded.
Steel AK-47 30 round mags, Croatian made, $34.99 each
My bet is it's only going to get worse, so buy now if you find what you want.
500 rounds of 9mm JHP, 115 grain, (run of the mill stuff, nothing special) asking $999.99
200 Rounds of Winchester 5.56 M855, asking $300.00
Mosin Nagant Izhevsk, asking $800.00 and I am pretty sure numbers did not match and it was an average MN at best. The best price I saw on a Mosin Nagant, and I looked at several was $450.00.
Remington Nylon 66 Mohawk Brown, asking $800.00
Winchester Super-X, 12 Ga. Slugs, 2.75" - 7 shells wrapped in plastic kitchen wrap, asking $24.00
Remington Core Lokt 30-30, asking $60.00
I had to pretty much stop looking at prices otherwise my head might have exploded.
Steel AK-47 30 round mags, Croatian made, $34.99 each
My bet is it's only going to get worse, so buy now if you find what you want.
Corrected my buying inactivity for today and just made a purchase of 10 Mec-Gar 1911 Government, 45 ACP, 7 round mags from Red River reloading.
Will be trading an Argentine 1927 (1911) to my son in the near future (near future for THE Great Procrastinator - me) for an Arsenal SLR 107 plus whatever else he needs to make up for difference in value. So, 5 of these 1911 mags are probably destined for him the rest for me. Now, I just need to hope Mec-Gar is good quality stuff; I seem to remember people on the forum saying Mec-Gar makes excellent mags but of course I have been wrong before
as to what I remember.
Anyway, I could not agree with Moonpie more than I do, which is 100%: buy mags now.
Will be trading an Argentine 1927 (1911) to my son in the near future (near future for THE Great Procrastinator - me) for an Arsenal SLR 107 plus whatever else he needs to make up for difference in value. So, 5 of these 1911 mags are probably destined for him the rest for me. Now, I just need to hope Mec-Gar is good quality stuff; I seem to remember people on the forum saying Mec-Gar makes excellent mags but of course I have been wrong before
as to what I remember.Anyway, I could not agree with Moonpie more than I do, which is 100%: buy mags now.
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