CharlieBrassStuffer

A 'Special Mail Call' from 'kyer', sending me goodies to build my cheek riser for the Savage MkII FVT, .22LR Target Rifle...Thank you Kyer, you're a real Pal!

Just getting some numbers together, something to think about before I put it through the ‘HP Test Tube Series’ for an official testing… CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served in the US Marine Corps, educated there by the Navy in Electronics. Worked as an Electrician all my life and Contracted Heavy Industrial […]

“How does it compare?” This past week has been hot and smokey out here in NorCali with fires everywhere. Yesterday we had a big fire start about 8 miles from me so I had to stop and race over to the other side of the valley and check it out for myself.  As a result, […]

In the video 'The 805 Box & The Tricorne HP' , the first HP RN Tricorne fired into the box was a fail...today I turn that fail into a success and talk about 'how I fixed it & why it failed'?

Well, us ole’ Redneck Engineers have to learn to do it all…even the sewing. CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served in the US Marine Corps, educated there by the Navy in Electronics. Worked as an Electrician all my life and Contracted Heavy Industrial Control & Power Distribution for 20 years before retirement. […]

This Hollow Point has been a lot of work getting the speed and the lead blend just right for testing penetration in the GEL block. CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served in the US Marine Corps, educated there by the Navy in Electronics. Worked as an Electrician all my life and Contracted […]

Keeping ourselves busy during Lock Down . . . honing a perishable skill. CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served in the US Marine Corps, educated there by the Navy in Electronics. Worked as an Electrician all my life and Contracted Heavy Industrial Control & Power Distribution for 20 years before retirement. Drive […]

Getting all my stock updated with their Brinell Hardness re-tested and think I may have discovered a ‘free’ source of Tin we may have been overlooking. Part of these test will be using lead that most of us casters have on hand, using lead that is cheap and readily available to us. CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS […]

Set-up for success… Ladder Testing can be done in many ways, the original method I read about many years ago was…I thought, over complicated and required too many carefully prepared rounds to get where I wanted to go, so…I shortened and modified that ‘old school’ method so I could get to the meat & taters […]

I’m constantly hearing how people dislike the loading of these priming tubes. I wonder if it is for the same reason I used to dislike loading them? I have Hornady, RCBS and Lyman and they all use the same principal of pressing them over the primers to load 50 or 100…I found it tedious because […]

Some say he’s crafty…innovative…a forward thinker… …but, I say he invents stuff to play with my mind! Take for instance his latest video… An easy way to cut jacketed bullets from range scrap for casting In this video he shows his latest greatest invention to cut the jackets of range scrap so that they will […]

I was going through some old targets… When I found this old target where I was comparing my handloads to some factory ammunition I had on hand in 2014. This target was the result of a month’s worth of work having gone around in circles trying to figure the dynamics of barrel vibrations/harmonics and trying […]

Back in the day… Back when I was contracting in the industrial field I used to use magnets to hold my control diagrams to the side of a machine or its control cabinet when I was troubleshooting or modifying something…there was nowhere to place things in a working industrial environment as you need to stay […]

I have a walnut filled vibratory cleaner & a Thumblers model B tumbler filled with the stainless steel pins and have been using both for many years now. However lately I’ve been practicing with the .45ACP and having to make lots of reloads to keep up with the practice. I was looking for a quick […]