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Had a buddy who tried 3/8 ounce skeet loads, not quite enough whack for consistent hits, won't see him until next Tuesday morning. If I can remember that far, I'll ask him what his load was.

I had...

I too am curious about the issues with the powder measure. I have the 30BR and a 3BR for the boomer cases that require silly amounts of powder that the 30BR won't drop. I've never had an issue with...

Gas checked 3D printed boolits a solution to disintegrating base?

A little info here:

https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/black-powder/372449-1995-cva-hawken-made-spain-stamped-700-kp-cm2.html

Or here:

https://www.chuckhawks.com/unsafe_muzzleloaders.htm

I sold industrial equipment up to 2004, it was pretty common for me to run across machinery with government "brass tags". They stated which branch of the service owned the piece of machinery and a...

And I stumbled across this video quite by accident, one day after having my 1917 out and shooting it at a vintage military match.

It's still in the truck, time to get it cleaned and back in the...

I think it is worth a look. I liked the "slushing". I had never heard the term before.

You get stuck with an ad in the beginning, but still a cool movie. Made before "video" was a term!
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457122.

Slow casting because it's a single cavity hollow point design.

From 4 grains of clays for an obese air gun round all the way up to eye watering boomer loads.

https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?443113-500-450-No-1-BPE

Don't know if this will help.....

Here's a bit on the 30 Badger, if you haven't found it already:

https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?256118-30-Badger-30-Reece

One thing to consider on a bolt action, unless it's a...

Maybe.

You need to compare critical basic dimensions to see if the parent case is even in the ballpark.

Better yet, start your reloading library with a couple of case forming books, there's one...

On the corrosive primers, I used to wipe a thin coat of Bore Butter around the nipple before firing. It seemed to slow the corrosion down.

Without the Bore Butter, the breech of the rifle would be...

Richland Arms, Blissfield Michigan.

That brings back memories. They had a number of private labeled guns they imported. Both center-fire and black powder.

If memory serves me correctly, the...

I've never worked with "basic" brass before, my assumption is that it is left as drawn without a trim to a finished, consistent length because it will be trimmed after it's formed into which ever...

The aforementioned 500/450 split well below the shoulder on first firing. Well below what had been necked down.

The only solution I came up with to solve the problem was to anneal well below the...

Did you anneal the brass after forming?

I've had to anneal well past the shoulder on several straight wall case to bottle necked case to eliminate split cases in the past.

500 Nitro Express to...

You'll note I didn't list him as a friend. Or his wife. Or his inlaws. All have the same shirk responsibility attitude.

But they bellyache enough about it at the gun club.

Never 22 Hornet, but I need to try it.

Did do 308 Winchester. It was my first foray into reloading rifle. $40 surplus rifle, Lee whack-a-mole and a bunch of round balls.

Found the load in a...

One local hunter/shooter won't register because in the olden days, jurors were drawn from the voter registration rolls. He wanted nothing to do with jury duty. I've tried to tell him they use drivers...

We had an old German woman on our line who would come on the line yelling "emergency, emergency I must have the line" in broken English. As kids we were taught that it was a crime if you didn't...

I have an RCBS 505 that does the same thing, when I pour a charge gently into the pan there is hesitation or the bar doesn't move until a light tap on the bench "wakes" it up. I just ignore it, the...

Biggest advantage of the digital version is the ability to toggle between inch and sillimeters. There are times I've found that handy.

You can also find some that have a fractional inch function....

My mitutoyo calipers is 30+ years old and still working well. I check it against jo blocks occasionally, it has never been off.

Similar to this:

Mitutoyo 500-196-30 Advanced Onsite Sensor...

We need to link these two threads, more working solutions to the problem the merrier:bigsmyl2:

https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?384845-303-British-to-6-5x53R-Dutch

Having to build a fire in the wood stove if I expected a hot breakfast when visiting my maternal grandparents. They had a propane stove also, but it was the wood stove that saw the most use.
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