77 & only started casting the last fifteen years or so.
Mostly range lead.
Type: Posts; User: Wal'
Forum: Cast Boolits
77 & only started casting the last fifteen years or so.
Mostly range lead.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Have used range brass for 40 yrs, straight into the vibrator & walnut media after a range shoot & reloaded........all works as it should, tarnish doesn't inhibit my shooting in any way....
Forum: Our Town
I needed that little bit of humour this morning with all the **** going on in the world today......thankyou......:p:p:p
Forum: Our Town
Same story here, I had chickens when young & then life got involved, now retired and have had my chickens for five years or more, and I absolutely love my ladies.
Have nine ladies at the moment, one...
Forum: Cast Boolits
As said, I am airbrushing/painting my son's unit after having it sit on my kitchen table for many years, & yes it gets a lot of comments, my eldest son got me started painting his Warhammer 40K...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Airbrushing an old/still new WH40k Ork Gargant, one of only 600 made in the USA & sold Worldwide by Armorcast, started production in June of 1995 & licenced then by the Warhammer 40K Company, ...
Have always wanted an air pistol.........now I have one.......:-D:-D:-D
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Forum: Our Town
Another "Down Under"greetings and best wishes to all for 2023
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Plastic milk crates are my go-to for storage & if I have to move them I use a hand trolly.
Only had one house move in the last 50 years, so not a big problem........
Forum: Our Town
It's a sunny 27C / 81F here in Southern Oz at the moment.........sorry.
Forum: Our Town
Haven't a clue what a Jandle is, & New Zealand is just across the ditch "Tasman Sea" from we Australians.
A singlet would be a sleeveless T/Shirt.
Forum: Our Town
Actually Australia has more snow area coverage than Switzerland.
I lived & worked in the snow resorts for nigh-on 50 years & its not warming up any with climate change....lol
Forum: Our Town
Yes, Xmas is Xmas the world over me thinks.......Jingle Bell Rock is one of my favourites.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Until we get back to having a regular supply of Small Pistol Primers, powder is the least of our problems at the moment
I haven't been able to buy primers down here in Australia for the last six...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Have used the same lube for years for all my reloads, pistol & rifle.
Made up some Bens's Red back then & still using it, with a little help from a DIY lube heater.
Forum: Cast Boolits
My original was an RCBS 502 forty-odd years back, I tried a couple of the electronics, but they had issues, still using the original........no issues.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
AP70N which is Universal & Unique in American..........[smilie=1:
Forum: Cast Boolits
Didn't do anything in the reloading room today........but fired off a sh..load of .357 on the steel plates today.............
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have had my Hornady progressive for forty-plus years now, and have had few minor problems whilst reloading mostly pistol rounds....32SWL.....38 Special.....357....9mm & 44 magnums.
Sheared the...
Forum: Our Town
Sorry, I'm 75 & still hauling ass on a 1200cc Harley & ain't about to stop any time soon.........:-P
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Hornady Progressive, RCBS Supreme Rock chucker & Lee Pro.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Just the one RCBS Uniflow I got with my first reloading press some forty years back & still using both.
And I reload pistol competition so that's a lot of reloads.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |