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Author Topic: How big is "12/mm"...?  (Read 2158 times)

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Re: How big is "12/mm"...?
« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2013, 02:41:14 PM »
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Re: How big is "12/mm"...?
« Reply #16 on: August 30, 2013, 04:14:43 PM »
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Re: How big is "12/mm"...?
« Reply #17 on: August 30, 2013, 04:17:40 PM »
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Cross Table accuracy is all a fellow needs.
And nearby egress... :(  :rt th  :laffing )
Yer a riot, rondo...!

I won't be drillin on the poor little thing...I don't have my dentist's license...
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Re: How big is "12/mm"...?
« Reply #18 on: August 31, 2013, 01:55:21 PM »
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I had one of those little Derringers many years ago,... I drilled it out to 1/2" and shot .490 balls to match my rifle. (it didn't seem to affect the Derringer's 100 yard groups at all

 :Doh! OMG! now THAT really surprises me.
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Jim, take it from a guy who knows......these guns are actually quite modern and in tune with today's world, they are paperless.
 

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Re: How big is "12/mm"...?
« Reply #19 on: August 31, 2013, 06:29:03 PM »
What is yer price on the pocket pistol?  I would be interested iffen ya peddle it - specially
iffen I can fresh it out to .50 smooth like Uncle Russ says!!!
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Re: How big is "12/mm"...?
« Reply #20 on: September 01, 2013, 12:29:16 PM »
Wanna make it bark ?   shoot lead conicals in it. I have .50 like that & it really packs a wallop with 15 gr. & a  250 gr. ball-et.     ...Tom
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Re: How big is "12/mm"...?
« Reply #21 on: September 02, 2013, 11:13:37 AM »
Well, the other night I cleaned out the bore pretty good.  It had been lubed, but there was some rust gunk in there, not too bad...there's still some in there back by the breech, not sure how to extract it.  Anyway, the channel is wide open and that's a good thing.  

The nipple is a strange little tapered thing.  I removed it, though I don't have a proper size wrench.  I tried to screw in a conventional nipple, but the threads were a tad too big, so it wouldn't go.  Yesterday at the rondy, my bud put a cap on her and tried to get it to go off, but the spring seems a might too weak.  Not even sure if #11 is the right size, given the taper I mentioned.

Accuracy?  Well, that'll be limited, especially given the fact the post for the front bead protrudes slightly into the bore at the muzzle...!  What a riot!
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Re: How big is "12/mm"...?
« Reply #22 on: September 02, 2013, 12:40:28 PM »
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Well, the other night I cleaned out the bore pretty good.  It had been lubed, but there was some rust gunk in there, not too bad...there's still some in there back by the breech, not sure how to extract it.  Anyway, the channel is wide open and that's a good thing.  

The nipple is a strange little tapered thing.  I removed it, though I don't have a proper size wrench.  I tried to screw in a conventional nipple, but the threads were a tad too big, so it wouldn't go.  Yesterday at the rondy, my bud put a cap on her and tried to get it to go off, but the spring seems a might too weak.  Not even sure if #11 is the right size, given the taper I mentioned.

Accuracy?  Well, that'll be limited, especially given the fact the post for the front bead protrudes slightly into the bore at the muzzle...!  What a riot!
That must be one'a them new fangled "muzzle brakes" that slows down the projectile to prevent bad things from happening.  :laffing
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Re: How big is "12/mm"...?
« Reply #23 on: September 03, 2013, 09:54:19 AM »
LOL...I bet I could shoot shot out of it, too.
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Re: How big is "12/mm"...?
« Reply #24 on: April 24, 2014, 11:34:57 AM »
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Cross Table accuracy is all a fellow needs.

Or under table accuracy if that fits your need.

Slug the barrel and measure might take some guessing out of the trial and error.
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Re: How big is "12/mm"...?
« Reply #25 on: April 24, 2014, 11:51:16 AM »
That's what I meant... 8)
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