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I only have experience with the 25-20 and the 32-20 in rifles. Both make excellent close range subsonic small game cartridges for close range. Most of what I know about loading them comes from 35...

I really like the CB caps. I often use them when I am hunting deer or turkey, and I get a chance at a squirrel or rabbit at very close range. They're good enough for typical head shots at thirty...

I have an RCBS round nose 45 ACP mold that I bought in about 1978. I am pretty sure I have made 300,000 bullets with it, and it still drops good bullets.

I've had so much success with 3031 using gas checked cast bullets in rifle cases that unless I have some kind of compelling hunch that something else might work better in an individual application...

A couple years ago I picked up a 2nd model hand ejector in 44 Special with the relatively hard find five-inch barrel. The young gunsmith doing the paperwork for the gunbroker transfer told me that...

I found a 22-250 case once on the western shore of the Hudson Bay. I wondered who was crazy enough to carry a rifle that light in such country. The next day as I paddled down the shore I ran into a...

I tried Gray Wolf's suggestion and seated some of my RCBS boolits in an empty expanded case and tapped them out with the inertia puller. They came back out way too easy. When I tried pulling...

I really appreciate the response. You've given me a lot of ideas to work with. The first one I'll try this morning is to load a seated round without crimping and use the bullet puller to determine...

Tatume,

I used the Redding 44-40 expander, hoping the smaller expander might help when the expanders that came with the 44 magnum die sets did not help. I don't know that my problem is with the...

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I tried another six rounds. This time with brand new Starline brass. I used an RCBS tungsten carbide sizer, an expander out of a Redding 44-40 die set, a bullet seater out of an RCBS 4 die set, and...

I am looking for a 44 magnum load I can use in my 629-1 with a four inch barrel that won't jump the crimp. The bullet I am using is an RCBS 250 that weighs out with my alloy at 265 grains. The load...

Thanks 44man,

I'm ordering the Hornady dies now.

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44man,

I'm having the same problem with my RCBS 250 grain cast bullet in the Keith pattern slightly slipping past the crimp on the sixth round. The guns I use are an old Ruger Blackhawk and and a...

You probably already know this but anytime you change springs you may have a misfire. The standard test is at least 50 rounds double action to confirm reliability. You can also create a situation...

My understanding is that the 22 Hornet was developed from the old 22 WCF, which did start as a black powder cartridge. As far as I know there is no reason you couldn't use black powder in the 22...

One thing you may wish to consider about data in loading manuals. Just because a load is listed in a manual doesn't absolutely mean that the load will be safe in your gun. This is particularly true...

I also love the 38-40. I really enjoyed reading how you saved that one.

I always wanted an '86 in .50 caliber, but with the collector's price they bring the rifle is worth more than my hide. Last year I did manage to pick up a 45-70 '86 that had been refinished and...

One thing I added to my pack this year for a few of my hunts was a package of gallon zip loc bags and a filet knife. For a couple of my hunts I was about an hour's walk in from my vehicle. Maybe...

I'm new to this site, but I'm not new to reloading. I've been at it for over fifty years. For years when I came to a problem that I wasn't sure how to solve or had an idea that I wondered how much...

Peculiar that I should run across this thread today. I'm in the house today instead of hunting because I'm coughing too much to handle a deer. I learned a long time ago that when the distance from...

I know of no bullet or caliber that will guarantee dead right there performance. If you are very close and you know that you can hit the spine or the brain pan, yes, but those are small targets. ...

I've seen pictures of 357's with large pistol primers from the 30's. I've never had one in hand. I have no information on a date when the practice stopped. I'd like to know.

I picked up a thousand Winchester small pistol primers earlier this week at the Walmart for $40. More often than not they're out of stock. They had no other kind of primer in stock the day I went...