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GONRA sez checkout IMR 3031, also ball powders close to IMR 3031 on the charts, etc.

GONRA sez IMR 4895 is THE .30-06 M1 Garand powder.

GONRA gotta 12 ga. RCBS shotshell die set + shell holder loooong ago...
Also 12 ga. brass shells....
Did preliminary loading data for an "AK Shotgun".
Grandkids will have to upgefinish the...

GONRA sez - steel pipe should verk Just Fine! !!
Great idea......

GONRA sez "Range Lead " verks Just Fine for plinking with common Auto Pistol calibers.
Bet the PC innovation makes it even better? ??

GONRA sez:
US ORANGE TIP delayed ignition tracer bullets function like this:
Heat from hot burning powder gas is conducted thru the brass base seal disk
and lightsoff a GASLESS DELAY MIX that...

Barry54 sez: "I noticed the rounds don’t “plunk” when I was attempting to get this photo".
GONRA sez: "That's It! !! Next tyme, PLUNK TEST ALL product
(not just a SAMPLE !) before shootin'...

GONRA sez: read 218Bee guys/gals...

GONRA sez Follow Clint Meier's advice on forming .219 Zipper.
STP, RCBS the "key words" 'chere".

GONRA sez - Hang onto yer olde RCBS dies / presses / tools / etc.
Do NOT sell 'em ! !!

GONRA sez - sounds like yer Just Fine! !!
Glad to hear it went smooooothly ! !!
Time to get back to SHOOTIIN' !!!!

GONRA sez - LOOKS LIKE - "TAPERED pipe threads are driving ya'll nuts...."

GONRA sez - make SURE you hava BIG STRONG PRESS and Great Dies.
RCBS Small Base verked for me.
(5.7x28mm fired cases might hava BULGE in middle of case body! !!)

Get a RCBS blank (no primer...

GONRA's CSP-2 Mega-Mite (hand press!) really verks well! !!.
Use it for for all sorts of goofy Gun / Bullet / etc. stuff.....
Many of ya'll out there would be Really Happy with one of...

GONRA sez be SURE to go to a RETINA SPECIALIST !
You may have to take AREDS2 pills (no big deal..)
get shots (no big deal),
have inside the eyeball surgery (sounds scary but easy to...

GONRA has "turned over" a set of blocks in a 4 jaw lathe chuck,
used a boring bar(s) to cut another cavity.....
Verks Just Fine! !!

GONRA did same same thing as Sasquatch-1 for decades.
Wear one out? Just find another! !!!
Have Phun! !!

El Cheepo GONRA has been using Range Brass forever....
Just do NOT use annealed (SOOOOOOOFT) "Burn Barrel" range brass!! !
Yikes !!

GONRA sez - best to hava Harbor Freight Arbor Press For Dangerous swaging projects.
Make yer own dies on yer Harbor Freight Screw Cutting (hasa leadscrew) metal lathe....
THINK - be careful......

Based on GONRA's experience (GOOD ! !!) with olde Dave Corbin
get a Corbin CSP-2 MegaMite HAND PRESS and blast away....

If New Corbin does NOT offer the Corbin CSP-2 MegaMite HAND PRESS...

GONRA sez - brassrat's primer can is REALLY olde!
SHOULD have lottsa collector value..... !!!

targetshootr's loading area looks just like GONRA's younger Son's in our basement! !!
GONRA's is worse.....

Somewhere in GONRA's Junque Pyle
is a loose leaf folder of WW II era IMR 4831 data,
lot nrs, charge wt. etc. for is original application:
20mm Oerlikon auto cannon.

GONRA used 94 grain .358 inch diameter Lyman IDEAL U358242 cast boolits
for all sorts of locked breech .380 ACP loads/pistols.....
Then developed (with lottsa help from Corbin! !!)
swaged ~40...

GONRA only loads range pickup brass for semiautos, but, for wot it's worth, here goes:

For 9mm Luger, older RCBS dies hava small mouth entrance radius.
These do a nice "back to factory...