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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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??
Vertically or horizontally??
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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 reversed so it dumps on the down stroke.
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Oh... and I forgot to mention the barrel was spotless after the 100 rounds.
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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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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 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 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 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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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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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/Whitespider8591/08ab04ba-f387-473e-80f7-fc5ed6d11136.jpg
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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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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 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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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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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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...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 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 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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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...
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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)....
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 |