BD, I bought a 6 cavity mould for the BD .45 on the group buy years ago. It's a great boolit! I have long used the Lee TL-230-TC as my main .45 ACP boolit. I use them for hardball equivalent loads...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
BD, I bought a 6 cavity mould for the BD .45 on the group buy years ago. It's a great boolit! I have long used the Lee TL-230-TC as my main .45 ACP boolit. I use them for hardball equivalent loads...
44 Special performance in .44 Magnum brass avoids fouling the ends of the chambers, which can make subsequent Magnum cases a little sticky. I still have some swaged 240 grain .429 SWC, Speer and an...
Dang, you got a deal! I had to pay $329 for mine!
I had to file a little off of the inside tip of the slide lock to stop the noses of hardball rounds from locking the slide back early. Otherwise...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
All commercial BP isn't graphite coated/glazed. I have used for years, and expect to use for the rest of my days, blasting & fireworks powder that was made by Goex and sold by Jack's Powder Keg....
Forum: Cast Boolits
00 buckshot work well for .31 Colts and replicas. 0 buck should work if you run across it. I have an 18 cavity Lee mould for 00 buck for this purpose. I use pure lead for revolver balls, but would...
Is this it? https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2012/10/22/making-the-case-for-38-super-plusp/
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Old post, I know, but it brought back a memory. Many years ago I was at my Uncle Vaughn and Aunt Sally's house out in the country. With a modern "1895" Marlin 45-70 loaded with a 400 grain Speer...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Acid tank would take off every bit of finish and "patina." It would be worth consideration of you wanted to start with a fresh, shiny, bare steel barrel, but I like the "used" look. I have a Persian...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
High pressure steam would have done it, I'm sure. I doubt that atmospheric pressure saturated steam would have. Heat in the 500 degree F range is what got the stuff out. I have a vague memory that I...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I don't think carburetor or brake cleaner would have gotten this stuff out. Not sure what it was, but it had to be as hard as epoxy.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Julian Hatcher investigated some kabooms with target shooters using Springfields. He discovered the spontaneous "welding" of jacketed bullets to brass case necks. No big problem when there was room...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I am of the opinion that with boolits that fit snugly into unsized necks and the loaded rounds fit snugly into the chamber there is no reason to be concerned about pressures rising as they can with...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
As I mentioned above, I have 3 8mms with .308" bore and .318" groove diameters. The Germans modified rifles like that by simply opening the neck of the chamber to accommodate rounds loaded with .323"...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Continuing this discussion, I have a warm spot in my heart for my 1944 Turkish Mauser, which I got after the days of the real bargains had passed. I had to pay $55 for it! It is one of the K. Kales...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I know this has been said hundreds if not thousands of times on this board, but check your bore diameters! A chamber cast or pound cast is even better, but slugging the barrel is very valuable, and...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
I think that pushing your patched boolits through the bore to see what they look like when they come out is a great idea!
Forum: Cast Boolits
The cleaning rod or dowel method is the way to determine the max OAL that a boolit can be seated touching the origin of the rifling. Through experience I can tell you that loads for the Lee 9mm round...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I'm really not downing Zastava, either. They make a full stock carbine that I would love to have in 8X57. Last year about this time I couldn't find one for sale in the U.S. They're not as prettily...
Forum: Factory Rifles
FWIW, the smoothest, slickest, most wobble-free bolt action I have ever encountered is a late '90s USRA made Winchester M70 push feed, the Wal-Mart special blind magazine, black plastic stock "Black...
Forum: Factory Rifles
My CZ has a much prettier finish than a Zastava. The moving parts are fitted closely, and I had to break in the bolt and the safety by manually working each 500-600 times to make them acceptably...
Forum: Factory Rifles
No, it's a Howa 1500 rifle with a few styling changes to make it a Weatherby. Very nice, accurate rifles! Weatherby is ambitious with their MSRPs.
Forum: Factory Rifles
In the old days Ruger only sold 5 round mags to "civilians," and had 20 round mags for "law enforcement only." Most aftermarket mags won't snap into place. The only ones I have found to fit an early...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
My load development process is simple. I have chronograph data from maximum safe loads with "normal" powders in my rifle with its caliber and the bullet. That's a target velocity I hope to match and...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I am working with duplexing WC860 and a couple of .223 appropriate powders, one the old Hi-Tech "PSA" that was sold with the advice to use 3031 data and said to be Chinese made Accurate 2230 rejected...
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