The rifle has a hook but plate but I think the porch swing moved when I touched one off.   Next time I will take the Rifle out to the range an they have nice concrete benches.  Not ready for 200yrds but I will go for 100yrds.  Are we having fun yet? You betcha!

n.r.davis wrote on Aug 13^th, 2018 at 7:02pm:


OK, I missed it again -- shooting from the porch swing -- THAT would never have crossed my mind.

Dellet wrote on Aug 13^th, 2018 at 8:29pm:


OK, so this Davis guy really wants to go back in time and play Cavalry with a Schutezen rifle, complete with hand rest. But on a porch swing?? I always thought a rocking horse is proper training mount for beginners ?

n.r.,

Even if you don't have any of the commercially available gear for lubing and sizing a bullet, pan lubing is very easy to do.

Lube formulas abound. Like Vall (marlinguy) I use beeswax/crisco/vaseline 50/40/10 by weight. Melt and mix the ingredients in a double boiler (cheap pan from Walmart and an old coffee percolator without the innards works well). Stand the bullets on their base in a pan (I like a non-stick pie pan as the cake/bullets drop out easily when they cool and the lube shrinks) and carefully pour in the melted lube to cover the lube grooves (I like to pour deep enough to lube the whole bearing surface even though most of the lube comes off the full diameter portion of the bullet when punching them out). Wait until cool then punch the bullets out of the lube cake with your thumb (and maybe a piece of leather for comfort) by pushing straight down on the bullet nose. You can wipe any lube off the base and load them with no further ado if the diameter is appropriate for the bore of your gun.

If the bullets need sizing, inexpensive push through sizers are available from Lee Precision. A slightly more expensive push through sizer is available from NOE Bullet Molds, but the sizing inserts are changeable, and less expensive than a whole new Lee sizer. If you are going to be sizing only a few sizes, get the Lee, if you're doing a half dozen or more, the NOE push through sizer saves you money, You use your reloading press for the bullet resizing, so you don't have to put out the money for a bullet lube-sizer and sizing dies.

Yep, that's a glider;-)

I thing yer ready for that horse now. Maybe put him on roller skates, too. 

Jeff_Schultz wrote on Aug 19^th, 2018 at 8:58pm:


Actually, I am quite impressed with that "disposable shooter's gear box and shooting rest". After all, picture clearly shows it is strong enough to hold the heavy schuetzen rifle all by itself.