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Not really pushing very far Lyman 51 lists a max 3.5 gr of A5 with a 160 cast bullet at 12,300 psi. I am using a 16,300 psi hand gun not one designed to be maxed out at 12,000 such as a Police...

Sometime in the last Year I acquired a few S&W Victory Models and one S&W M&P made about 2 months before start of Victory Model SNs. This one has had a 2.5 inch barrel mounted and a .38 S&W Cylinder...

I'll take #6 10 lbs 50/50 solder ingot from resin core

I will take the last 2 if I can count

Do you folks recommend either something akin to #2 Alloy or even something like 16 or 20 to 1 Lead to tin for a lee 500gn 3r bullet. I plan on either being High sub sonic or somewhere around 1200...

Anyone have a 1200 FPS 500 grain cast load to dupliciate the old TD springfield load

Here is what the 100 yard target looked like, remember with store bought cast bullets the rifle shot 2 sideways and 2 round holes at 50 yards and the round holes were something like a foot apart. ...

Case stuffer I was in A/5/60 Mar 70 till they went home Sep- Oct 70

I am thinking of building a PID controller also, is it really necessary or should I just focus on trying to keep my lyman thermometer indicating say 640 to 675 degrees

Dragonheart how much of a pain in the *** is powder coating say vs tumble lubing?

Made it to the range today shot the Lee 500 3R bullet pan lubed with 1:1:1 beeswax, gulf canning wax, mutton tallow with 5 tablespoons of olive oil and a large heaping tablespoon of lanolin for lube....

I too have the lee 500 grainer mold. I cast up some 16:1 bullets with it pan lubed and loaded same over 65 grains of Olde Eynsford. 20+ mph winds today will hit the range Friday as the winds will...

Was able to go to the Bull Shop website and used the email button told him wanted some of the lube and he could either tell me how to order or simply ship and invoice me on Pay Pal.
The response was...

It is probably there for making tallow crust pies because too many people have been watching the british baking show. I have had some of the grass land beefs mutton tallow in this office since 2010...

Watching this tread intently as I am going down the rabbit warren of tumble lubing myself, did some google research and have ordered the LLA the Lundmark Paste Wax, the SC Johnson's paste wax and...

Nobody has said anything about how to control temperature on your fishfryer melting pot, the first thing is to get a casting thermometer and watch it. The lyman has various alloys temperature ranges...

I use a lyman T-Mag or Mag-T can never get it right!!. My original Circa 1994 press snapped the bolt that holds the turret on. They no longer make said bolt so I ended up buying the then current...

Have lurked and even posted on this forum for several years but yesterday was my first foray into casting actual bullets. I made up approx 100 lee 459-500-3R for my original 1888 trapdoor using 16-1...