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Author Topic: Reloads  (Read 1043 times)

Offline Pitchy

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« on: March 23, 2009, 06:39:34 PM »
Found this stash of 75 cal. balls in the middle of a snow bank today, ready to re load.  :lol:

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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2009, 06:58:15 PM »
Hot dang Pitchy are you thawin out up there ?
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« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2009, 07:31:48 PM »
A little, been raining all day but chilly. Another month and then it will be nice.  :)
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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2009, 07:38:29 PM »
Hey Lenn, you loose those or are they just dropping from the sky?
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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2009, 09:21:08 PM »
Those are fired balls, stopped dead not ten feet into that snow bank. haven`t quite figured out how that happens yet.
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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2009, 10:57:53 PM »
Pitchy depending on the density of the snow the ball builds hydrostatic preasure that slows it quite rapidly.Not as fast as water, but the same laws apply.
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2009, 11:17:53 PM »
Pitchy, How far away from that snow bank were you when you fired those?

Is that from that gun you recently built? (If I remember correctly you said it was about .75 cal.)

Hope you get thawed out pretty soon...looks like we are gearing up here for a second round of winter before spring actually gets here.

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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2009, 06:55:07 AM »
I have not got any of my balls back yet from the snowbank. But with the rain we got yesterday it should give up some of them. There must be 150 or so out there. Coming out of a rifled barrel I have to melt them down and re cast.
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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2009, 10:41:44 AM »
Gordon H.Kemp, thanks for the explanation, gotta be something going on there.

Russ, yep they are from shooting that last 75 i made, shot at 20 yards more or less.

Roaddog, sure hope it don`t snow any more, i`m ready for spring.
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