cbrick
Boolit Master

Yep, lot's more metal in a 5 hole cylinder as opposed to a 6 hole. Simple as that. Rick

jmorris is right, all brass is annealed at the factory. All brass. The forming process manufacturing the brass work hardens it and without annealing it would be worthless. That in itself says that it can be done. Military brass isn't tumbled where...

Here's an article that explains annealing very well. My own experience with annealing is that it is a bit of an art form. Get it wrong and you have either ruined your brass or accomplished nothing. Practicing on old scrap brass is recommended until...

Yep, waiting a couple of weeks to shoot them would be tough. The amount of time needed to reach highest BHN after quenching depends on the percentage of Sb, the higher the percentage the quicker they harden, the lower the slower they harden. With...

:goodpost: Good post Paul, very well explained. Thanks. Rick

As was mentioned, aluminum pots are designed and meant for cooking where the temp couldn't ever reach lead melting temps. Over the years there have been many posts on this forum of aluminum pots that gave way when full of melted lead. Give the...

I have never hosed off or rinsed or cleaned a single WW. Everything/anything on them will float once the lead is melted including the steel clips and the very last thing I want in the pot is water. I too would switch to sawdust for fluxing....

Well, if you apply a bit of logic/common sense using your theory of high pressure & flame temp every single plain base boolit ever fired melted and leaded the bore. I have looked at the bases of a lot of recovered boolits and not a single one of...

Supposed to come with three sets of pins. Long HP, short HP and blank for a solid nose. 2 and 4 cavity brass. Cramer Style HP Both plain base and gas check versions. (No GC & PB mixing in the same mould.) Pins: short and long round pins,...

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You'll be happy with the RCBS Cowboy dies. They are designed for cast boolits and the expander plug should give you the proper brass expansion and bell for cast. Most standard dies while quite good but they are dimensioned for those ugly expensive...

I add 2% Sn to all of my alloy's be it pure or WW. From a metallurgical view you don't want to add more tin than antimony but with a 6% Sb alloy 2% will do nicely. Also, Sn looses it's ability to do what you put it in there to do, reduce the surface...

I ALWAYS seat and crimp in two separate steps. Been doing it since I first started reloading a few decades ago, just seems logical to not be seating the boolit while turning the case mouth into the boolit. Redding Profile Crimp Die RCBS...

Hi Matt, Welcome to CastBoolits. Velocity isn't necessarily your friend, trying for a bit of extra fps can be counter productive for both accuracy and killing power. You didn't say what you'll be hunting but from MO I'll assume deer. If you use a...

creature, I like the sprue plate to be just shy of being able to flip open on it's own. If it's loose enough to do that it's possible to get high spots on the boolit base, tighter is more wear on the mold. I also use Bull Plate to help. There is...

John, if it makes you feel warm & fuzzy to think I was trying to insult you go right ahead and feel warm & fuzzy. If it were my intent to insult you, you and everyone else reading this thread would certainly know it. As for old wives tales it...

If your happy using oily candle smoke in your molds you should by all means continue to do so. That however does not change the fact that it is an old wives tale. If it helps anything, and that's a big if, it is only covering up a problem. It is far...

I had the base pin backing out on an old model BH 44, Belt Mtn pin solved the issue in short order. Rick

I must be blessed . . . I didn't know that crapolla was back. Rick

Yes, very quick & simple. Rick

creature, chalk this up as a valuable learning experience. You now know what happens when you get oil in the cavities. As was mentioned already, the sprue lube (Bull Plate) that came with your mold is great stuff but a little goes a very long way....

I think so yes, the boolit on the left in post #4 is the only one shown at Midway, out of stock though. Rick

Well Hunter, you may have a problem with brass tight enough to size down the boolits but . . . You said the bore isn't leading and even if this is happening it wouldn't cause the throats to lead. If it did every bevel base boolit ever shot in a...

Yeah but ya still need to feel sorry for the casters down under because using left hand wheel weights in a right twist barrel causes all sorts of problems with everything being upside down. Rick

Off topic but . . . the biggest reason dies size differently than as marked is alloy variation. Differing percentages of Sb result in different as sized diameters. Most of the die makers do a pretty decent job but with everybody out there using...

Try this . . . Frankford Arsenal Impact Bullet Puller What are you using to expand & bell the brass? Rick

I just re-read the original post, he did say forcing cone leading in the title but not in the post. Same effect and cause though, the lead had to start in the throats and spread to the forcing cone. Continued shooting will spread it into the...