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My brother left me a model 1895 saddle ring carbine in .40-82. I have some questions:

Can .40-82 brass be made from .40-90 straight cases?

Can anyone suggest a good smokeless load for 260 - 280...

I use a non-stick sheet and simply move the bullets around with nitrile gloves on -- to be sure none are touching. They all come out evenly coated.

Correct. The purpose of lubing bullets (and that includes PC) is to prevent leading. If you have little or no leading, your PC is working.

Next: How's your accuracy? An undersized bullet may...

You can get one at Walmart for less than $20. That's what I use.

Try dampening a patch with Ed's Red and wiping each bullet with it as you run it though the sizer.

Have you tried to chamber a dummy round loaded with this bullet UNcoated?

What I suspect is happening is this bullet carries it's diameter farther forward (and has a correspondingly shorter nose)...

My experience is yes. I use the Lee sizer, and run the bullet through backwards, gas check upward, and the results are beautiful. Running the bullet through the "normal" way can damage the gas...

By and large I do not size pistol bullets. I shoot them first, and if they won't behave, I experiment with things like sizing.

It should work. My experience is that a single coat of Harbor Freight Red increases diameter by about .001".

Have you tried shooting them without coating? They might shoot well that way.

I can't hear the dialog. I clicked on subtitles, and they're in Portuguese!

Thanks! I'll try it. Do you use airsoft BBs to increase the charge?

Two tips for using the checkmaker.

1. When making disks, cup your hand over the checkmaker. Those disks will FLY, and they fiy right into the Geezer Zone (too close for your main lens, and too...

Look at some loaded rounds. If you see tiny scraps of aluminum at the mouth of the case, the checks are being damaged during bullet seating. If this is the case, you can try shooting them in...

I make .35 Brown-Whelen, the most radical form of the Whelen. This form removes most of the taper from the case, moves the shoulder well forward, and sharpens it considerably.

You cannot shoot...

I just finished my first batch -- with Harbor Freight Red. I used a plastic container, shook it about as long as I would if using Liquid Alox, and it turned out beautifully.

You slick-talkin' devils!

You got me hooked on powder coating -- I ordered a pound of red from Harbor Freight, bought a toaster oven from Walmart (less than $20, with tax) and cooked up my first...

I have a Hammond Game Getter for just that purpose.

The Hammond Game Getter looks like a cartridge case, with an off-center primer pocket. The "primer pocket" is actually a .22 RF chamber. In...

What kind of sizer are you using? I use the Lee sizer, and feed the bullet in base first -- no problems at all keeping the check on that way.

I've never shot a .450-400 Nitro Express, let along loaded for one. However I am currently experimenting with Pat Marlin's Checkmaker in .22 Hornet and getting excellent accuracy at around 2200 fps....

Anything flat -- a board, a piece of steel -- will work. Put the gas check on, and if it's tight it will be a little cockeyed. Put it base down on the flat surface and press down favoring the high...

The Pat Marlins Checkmaker does exactly what you want -- I have one for a .225 Plain Base bullet, and it makes gas checks out of coke cans -- you cut the metal in strips with a paper cutter, then run...

I ordered a .225 PB Checkmaker from Pat Marlins. It took a while to try it out -- Pat recommends cutting your coke can material with a paper cutter and I couldn't find one in town (I live about 10...

My favorite for chucks, crows and so on is a .22 Hornet. I load a 35 grain Hornady V-max on top of a case full of Hodgdon's Li'l Gun for about 3100 fps. It is no exaggeration to say this is an...

Dumb question -- when you form GCs from two thicknesses, do you use them like that, or do you separate them into two GCs?

Lee dies, which hold the decapping rod in a collet, are ideal -- the rod is pushed back out before the pin breaks. They also sell a universal decapping die, which is what I use with crimped primers.