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  1. Forum: Cast Boolits

    Using that sentence from your post I'm making the...

    Using that sentence from your post I'm making the assumption you're talking about ammunition for revolvers??

    If you are, as I assume, talking about revolver ammunition... the best advice I can...
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    Are the 100 yard groups elongated or stringing??...

    Are the 100 yard groups elongated or stringing??
    Vertically or horizontally??
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    Yep, that's lead. A couple of things... 1) I've...

    Yep, that's lead.
    A couple of things...
    1) I've never liked the results using Alox coating (or tumble lubing), every instance I've tried it resulted in sub-par accuracy and barrel leading. Others...
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    I use an RCBS Uniflow with the small drum...

    I use an RCBS Uniflow with the small drum reversed so it dumps on the down stroke.
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    Oh... and I forgot to mention the barrel was...

    Oh... and I forgot to mention the barrel was spotless after the 100 rounds.
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    Chronograph data

    I've been waiting for a day like today to get some chronograph/accuracy data from my American Classic II, .45 ACP... a bright cloudy day with no wind. Today was also the first time I've fired boolits...
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    Poll: I missed this thread the first time around... ...

    I missed this thread the first time around...

    I guess I'm too much of a traditionalist, coating lead-alloy boolits with epoxy/paint just seems wrong to me. It seems like a jacketed bullet to me......
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    The farmer/landowner built the house in 1901, the...

    The farmer/landowner built the house in 1901, the garage a few years later... lumber was harvested and sawn on-site.
    Knob 'n' tube was never used on this site... rural electricity didn't come to...
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    Yes... I'm aware of that... but thanks for...

    Yes... I'm aware of that... but thanks for pointing it out.
    My shop (actually a detached two-stall garage) is a century old. Both it and the house were built before there was electricity in this...
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    LOL Let me tell you the steps I go through to...

    LOL
    Let me tell you the steps I go through to get those little gem checked, sized, and lubed. I can't just send them into the die in a "normal" fashion or the lube grooves get wiped out. So here's...
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    Forum: Cast Boolits

    They drop 44 grains from my mold. I cast 'em from...

    They drop 44 grains from my mold. I cast 'em from COWW with 2% tin added, and load 'em over 11.5 grains of Accurate 1680 at an honest 2300 FPS from my Handi-Rifle. They flat turn yard/garden vermin...
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    Sticky: What I've been doing lately is resize/decap...

    What I've been doing lately is resize/decap before the citric acid bath, and when dry, toss them in the vibrating tumbler with clean, untreated corncob media. The cases come out looking brand new......
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    http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt321/Whitespid...

    http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt321/Whitespider8591/08ab04ba-f387-473e-80f7-fc5ed6d11136.jpg
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    They drop at 156 grains from my Lyman branded...

    They drop at 156 grains from my Lyman branded mold (COWW).
    My Combat Masterpiece likes 4.5 grains of W231 with this boolit.

    http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt321/Whitespider8591/DSCF0002.jpg...
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    The pile weighed 2¼ pounds :bigsmyl2: *

    The pile weighed 2¼ pounds :bigsmyl2:
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    That's strange... Here let's try it this way......

    That's strange...
    Here let's try it this way...

    http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt321/Whitespider8591/DSCF0057.jpg

    Can you see the pic in this post now??
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    The attachment is the same as the picture...

    The attachment is the same as the picture posted... are you seeing the picture??
    The mold is a Ideal #225438... I believe it's still in the Lyman catalog.
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    Poll: I grew up in a "gun family". My Grandfather was...

    I grew up in a "gun family".
    My Grandfather was a gun dealer... he owned and operated a "General Store" in a little town on the river with a one-sided main street. You could buy anything you needed...
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    Poll: Creeping up on 60 here... started casting my own...

    Creeping up on 60 here... started casting my own just 10 short years ago.
    However, I've been shooting cast boolits for about 40 years... I was lucky enough to have a couple-three friends casting my...
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    LOL... ain't no magic, only trickery. *

    LOL... ain't no magic, only trickery.
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    Might not look like much...

    ...to you guys with bottom-pour pots and multi-cavity molds.
    But each one of these little 40-grain jewels represent a carefully executed pour from my ladle into an ancient Ideal single-cavity mold...
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    I don't own any hardness testing equipment or...

    I don't own any hardness testing equipment or tools, so this is just me thinking out loud (or with my fingers on a keyboard).

    I'd like to see a test that concentrates more on the...
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    Every time I see/hear/read that statement I ask...

    Every time I see/hear/read that statement I ask the same question...
    Wins what?? And, more importantly, how do you collect it once you've died??

    The rest of you guys need to quit selling...
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    Forum: Cast Boolits

    Yeah... "new-fangled" don't do it for me so the...

    Yeah... "new-fangled" don't do it for me so the temptation ain't really there for me.
    I'm a "blue steel and wood" guy... stainless steel, synthetics, laminates, and whatnot just don't look and feel...
  25. Forum: Cast Boolits

    Absolutely true... especially in warm weather. ...

    Absolutely true... especially in warm weather.

    I feel your pain Bazoo, I've fought with the incomplete fill out with frosted boolits myself (and I'm a ladle caster without a thermometer like you)....
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Abbreviations used in Reloading

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