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I use a mechanical annealing machine made by Annealz. It basically has a ramp that the shells go on, a wheel with a slot in it that rotates, lets a shell drop in and when it rotates to the bottom,...

Veral includes a "small stick" of lube. With the mold hot, all you have to do is barely touch the pins and then there will not be any more sticking. Get too much and the lube will follow the vent...

Well, the accuracy part will be taken care of by JES!! I only have had one done by Jesse, it being an 1894 Marlin 25-20 that I had him rebore to 32-20. It is super accurate now. 300m, 400m and...

Personally, I like to sit and shoot off sticks. I can absorb the recoil by rocking back with it. Shooting prone is not too good on the shoulder/collarbone.

Makes me want to rechamber my 1897 RB #5 to 32-40 or 38-55 myself. Unfortunately, I have to get someone to do all the work, as I don't know how or have the equipment to do so. It is just collecting...

UPS paid off on a damaged gun of mine, the guy that shipped it should be shot. Full length hiwall with a put together box covering the whole thing and newspaper packed around it. I feel lucky that...

my Uberti 38-55 slugged .382, I size to .383 and it shoots well with 240gr and 255gr to 600yds.

one of my friends has this rifle, shoots 260gr fn with unique and is able to hit metal gongs at 600yds and even at 800 yds using MVA tang sight

unique...only thing is it does not meter as well as some other powders

some molds just cast heavy with more lead in the mix. i had to keep hardening my alloy with one mold until it cast large enough and light enough. With a 20-1 alloy, it was way heavy and undersize...

be nice to have a bunch of that for the tin

PC'ing is easy with the right powder coat paint. Some of them do not work as well as others with the shake and bake method. I have found that if a powder does not cover well, tumble them again and...

11 oz beeswax, 6 oz Crisco, 2 oz Vaseline or canola oil. This is a modification of WWW, I add a little more beeswax to stiffen it up a bit.

I appreciate the chart and formula, I am aware of them and have referred to them before. They do not hold true for me, really either. I played with lead hardness with bullets for my rifle (another...

Why size a thou smaller? Because his barrel is .001 smaller groove diameter than mine. Try .383, we have already been there, it leads even worse. I know it sounds like the solution is to just load...

My thoughts are that the pressure curves for the two loads both show really steep peaks on a scale of pressure versus inches travel in the barrel. 218447 218446

These pics will expand, but the...

I am ruling out alloy, since like I said, I cast, he does not. I cast the bullets and run mine thru a .383 sizing die and his thru a .382 push thru NOE bushing after I size and lube them. Anyway,...

Ok, so I have a 38-55 hiwall that slugs .382". I am shooting a sized .383" bullet from an Accurate mold that has 3 lube grooves and a crimp groove, the ogive is almost like a pointed bullet, except...

Thanks lightman.

Thanks megasupermagnum. Yeah, I want 2 lube grooves, and if I can find someone that makes that bullet, I will buy some first before getting a mold. I cannot find any commercial places that make...

I am trying to find the magic bullet that does not lead my 1873 32-20 rifle. It seems like the Lyman 311008 or clones like the NOE 314008 have 2 lube grooves, no crimp groove, but does have the...

Yeah and before I did that I tried the 1/16" allen wrench and it would not even fit in the hole at the top. I mic'd it and it was 0.0625, that was when I decided to call before I bought the wrong...

Thanks Chill Wills, I too was baffled by this. The smallest allen wrench SAE that I had was 1/16", then when I talked to the other guy at Baldwin sights or Mechanical Accuracy, he told me that it...

guys, I do know how to read a Vernier, that is not the problem. The unknown was the windage adjustment on the tang sight. My Pedersoli is 2.5 MOA per revolution, the Baldwin, per info by Chill...

Chill Wills, thanks for the info. I managed to get the "barrel" off the globe and replaced the aperature with a different one. I had not read your post reply yet, but I did see a tiny hole in the...