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Back on the farm in PA, tomato juice usually worked to get most of the stink off.

An easy way to avoid dried-on hard water spots on wet tumbled brass is to use an old cotton bath towel. Dump the cases on one end, roll them around a bit by hand, then lift the towel and deposit the...

My marlin .38-55 CB also has a .381" groove dia. Could not chamber a loaded round having a bullet bigger than .379". Had to rent a special (.400" OD at neck, IIRC) chambering reamer from CH/4D to...

Frog Lube fared well in this corrosion test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_784402149&feature=iv&src_vid=WqXi947z0Ck&v=7KCHARdTCjE

My NOE 'Keith' HB's are dropping at 260 grs. & .433", but I had a 9.5 - 10 BHN 20-1 equivalent 17-SOWW+ 2-lino alloy in the RCBS pot at the time. Thinking my Lipsey's Special Ruger .44 Spl. will...

Sask Hunter ... I like to mix 2 lbs of lino (which a pig of which is what your pic showed) with 17 lbs of stick-on wheel weights to yield an approx. 10-Bhn alloy.
Jim

I have found that my elder Shiloh B-prefix 1874 in .40-60 Maynard with 18" twist will stabilize a bullet up to 1.267" in length, greaser or PP. My BACO .396" x 385 gr. slick works very well for me...

Rufus ... the 'wife' mode (program #1 on my set of HA's) surely does come in handy now & again! :razz:
Jim

I'd say no at first blush, at least in an AR. Meplat is pretty wide for trouble-free M4 feed ramp functioning.

I use a Meecham repo Pope-style de/re-capper tool for depriming fired cases at the range if loaded with BP, then chuck 'em in a jug of soapy water to soak until I get home. For smokeless, I mostly...

If you would like to try salvaging it, send the old out to me here in AZ & I will try to make it usable again for you. Maybe worth a shot for the cost of postage. Jim

Guessing by the machining marks that it is a custom lathe-bored with base plug added. I have made many similar, using smaller diameter SC molds as lathe fodder. Ideal/Lyman may have at one time...

Chris ... I lucked into a "zero load development" with mostly sub-MOA results pretty much right outta' the gate several years back with an 18-1 twist Shiloh 1874 in .40-60 Maynard. Load details...

+1 on: "I anneal after I shrink 'em, though." Going by their color, the pictured collapsed cases look like they were possibly over-annealed. Can't go by color alone, but they look kinda dark. ...

Jhalcott ... Strangely enough I remember that Cu tubing jacket/boolit mold combo. The tubing cutter provided quite a roll-over on one end jacket and this was supposed to be placed into the mold...

+1 jhalcott ... Sounds like a really bad idea to have exposed lead on both ends of the condom-type boolits!

Conventional wisdom says that BP rifle loads with a wad (some folks do OK w/o an over-powder wad) need to have clean boolit bases. I use a cotton 100% shop cloth with a small amount of acetone on it...

Tool & Die, Metal Stamping

Want to add that our own 'GRUMPA' does a bang-up job of converting 5.56 brass into ready-to-load .300 Blackout. Better quality than the one other cast boolits vendor I tried.

Your pic shows what looks like too much clearance between the mold & sprue plate. Hold up the mold sideways to a good cool white light. Should be little or no light coming thru. Check the sprue...

I have not heard of any gas checks coming off in the barrel. S'pose some of the old Lyman non-crimpring checks could come off if seated below the neck of a BN rifle case, but a straight-walled...

+3 on the SB die, 'specially if you are running a gas gun. Grinding back a LEE FLS sizer to get the initial fire-form case prep/Sheridan Gauge work done WILL work, but you would be better served...

+1 on RFR's Unique/W231 observation. The old NRA 50-50 with either powder under an H&G 68 in .45 ACP was definitely not an indoor range load for me.

"PC'd" = Politically Correct(ed)? Kidding!

The 20-1 alloy boolits from my NOE 4-cavity .460-405-RF plain base makes for the tiniest .45-70 groups I have ever fired.

Forgot to mention that this Russian ammo is Berdan primed. Makes it a bit harder for the comrades to reload the fired 'brass'.