Looks like this might be a good solution for my pure lead swaged boolits. I use anhydrous lanolin for swaging lube and if cleaned well might work for low velocity hunting and plinking loads.
Type: Posts; User: michiganvet
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Looks like this might be a good solution for my pure lead swaged boolits. I use anhydrous lanolin for swaging lube and if cleaned well might work for low velocity hunting and plinking loads.
Forum: Our Town
It may be that paranoia has something to do with it. I like to come here and read the posts but have not posted much for a good long while. I have been casting since '67 and have been swaging since...
Forum: Leverguns
I have on order a LBT 38 200 FN for my late '70's 94C for big critters along with 358156 for every day and a 145 gr plain base flat nose for sub-sonic small game. The twist rate makes this the most...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Lino will vary in composition depending on what type of printing it was intended for and how many times it has been recast. You need to cast a pure lead bullet and then your particular LT in the same...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
There is a marvelous article in Handloader #50, July-August 1974 that helped me turn a goodly amount of lino obtained by helping move printing machines in a local school, into lyman #2. The numbers...
Forum: Cast Boolits
The .32 ACP is a purely defensive round. The 73 gr solid shown by bowfin is the best that I have seen. I am sorry that I missed the group buy.
Forum: Cast Boolits
If you are into power loads in a rifle, the answer is clear. The .45 Colt brass lacks the strength of the .44 Mag brass. Beyond that whatever your personal choice is what matters.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Bought a Glock 19 in 2001 not knowing the concerns. Most mistakes I make are due to not knowing as much as I should. Added a Wolf bbl. Time will tell. Loading since mid 60's, casting since late 60's,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
@steg; do you use the clear? We used that to clean and polish the barrack floors in basic back in the early 60's
Forum: Cast Boolits
I believe I have Lyman Cast bullet handbook #'s 1, 2, 3, and 4. I am not sure of #1 because the cover and some pages are missing missing and no number is indicated. It has a forward by Charles E...
Nice info guys. Got a bunch of buckshot molds this year. Have been too busy to fire them up. (good thing) Been casting boolits since the 60's but not buck. I've seen answers here to questions I...
Some guns need fiber/felt for proper performance. My 40 some year old 20 double imp/mod does not like one piece plastic wads.
Magma has a melter with replacable "drippers" for different sizes. Its a little pricy at $400+ but it contains it's own heat source. Their pounds per hour sounds pretty good and you can use a harder...
Forum: Swaging
Right on, "an" is a prefix that means "without".
Forum: Swaging
I have an aluminum block with holes drilled into it. Fill the holes with jackets, put in a little flux, drop in swaged cores that have the lube cleaned off. Heat on stove top until the cores melt....
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Plumbers are required to use pure lead. Part of the process of making the joints is to caulk the poured joints with flat pointed chisel looking tools. If you were to use a harder alloy the cast iron...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I added tin and lead to my lino to make Lyman #2, poured into ingots and stamped a "2" on each one.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
No doubt about it, tin is pricy. Look for solder at garage sales. 95/5 is great if you can find it. It is used on copper water lines.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
As a retired pipefitter I use a plumbers furnace.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Copper hangers are for copper tube to prevent dissimilar metal damage.
Last year I bought a set of Redding case forming dies for my Contender carbine because I can't justify more brass from Quality Cart at a buck each. I think the .256 would have been more popular today...
Forum: Leverguns
Read an article the other day about Marlin specs for 45-70 being .4588 grove dia as the cause of poor accuracy in microgroove for high vel loads. .459 sizing die in the works very soon.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Got my Redding scale in the late 60's, but I never did put oil in it. These days I throw a charge just light, then trickle one grain at a time timed to dampen until the scale re-zeros.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I have an OLD model 80 Marlin that I used to hunt fox squirrels with cb caps until CCI came out with CB longs in the early 80's. I tested them on a 15 yd target tacked to the end of a piece of...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
That may explain my results. WHODATHUNKIT?
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 |