Got the dies, brass and some 150 grain Hornady bullets all together. Loaded up some starter loads and made it to the range yesterday. Good thing to, looks like things are headed south before the end of the year.
The old girl shot just fine, no cycling issues and she's not hard on the brass at all. The trigger is pretty nice too, old John Browning did a darn good job on his last design.
Its a good thing I have a vintage Weaver K 2.5 scope on the way that I found on Gun Broker as the buckhorns are really not working for me. Now its time to work up a good deer load and get the scope sighted in when I can. I had to do a "Bubba Fix" on the scope mount base to deal with the stripped ring mount hole. The Weaver #4 six hole mount base has been out of production for years and I have not been able to locate one yet. So I reworked the damaged one. The threads for the slotted thumb screw were of course a very fine odd size and I only wanted to go just as far as needed to retap a new hole. The next best larger thread size available off the shelf was 12-24 and fasteners for this size are a non-stock item and only come in very limited styles so the resulting fix is not to purty but it works. Hope I can find a replacement base plate some day but at least for now it will get it working. I dont think the deer will care anyway.
