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Nice, Evan!
Did I rattle your cage the other day when I texted you? Good on ya for getting back after it.

I know first hand how bad a move is for messing up routines. We've been here for a year...

I was 15. My Mom's cousin owned a cattle ranch just north of Rio Grande City in south Texas. He would let me come down and shoot dry does and, eventually, a small forkhorn with weird antlers that...

I use it as my primary .44 Mag powder with both 240 grain and 300 grain boolits. It does leave a few granules of partially burned powder in the bore, but it doesn't bother me.

It gives really...

I'm currently loading the Accurate 46-430V boolits (The "tombstone" boolit, a 430 grain plain-based approximation of the Beartooth PD Jr.) for my 45-70 Marlin 1895SBL and I'm looking to see if my...

Thanks, all. "That's normal" is what I was hoping to hear. looks like a boolit has a rough go of it the first inch of travel, or so. Well, the landing's not so gentle, either.

Thanks, that's what I was thinking; or at least hoping. Even though the gas check almost invariably sheds on impact, they do give good accuracy. I also get next to no leading.

I managed to recover one of these boolits the other day. It's a Accurate 432-300 fired at about 1050 fps from my 4' Redhawk. Not easy to do, as aspen trees and just about every target backer around...

In my experience, jackrabbits will, indeed, respond to a distress call. I've had them show up on coyotes stands countless times. Not sure what they think they're going to do, but they come charging...

My take on aluminum gas checks is that they are the ones consistently available to me.

I bought a Freechex, II? I think, and make my own from roof flashing I buy here locally. Problem is, the...

Here it is, all attached to the handles and ready to go.

http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad117/cmoore457/416900F5-0FC7-4F28-8290-C4A5DF4B3ED2_zpsjzpycjmv.jpg

I got this much cast before my...

As promised, here's the story of my first purchase from Tom at Accurate Molds.

I contacted Tom on the 20th after placing the order for the mold I opened the thread with. My issue was that I'd...

It came in today and there're boolits cooling now!

Pictures and fuller write-up to follow after dinner...

Thanks, guys.
Tom's been great to deal with so far. He and I have emailed back a forth a few times today sorting out details. I ordered a .408 gas check shank to accomodate the .011 flashing I'm...

Ordered my first nice mold last night; a two cavity from Tom at Accurate. I was contemplating designs in this sub forum not long ago and Tom got on here and answered a couple of my questions,...

It won't give you as much recoil, but I've been having pretty good luck with IMR4227. My last round of experiments was with 20 grains and the Lee 310 seated long.

I got 1300 and change out of...

I agree. That's why the plan for getting a couple of made to order molds. Not sure I want to put any more labor than taping into a $20 mold. Beagling seems like a stop gap, at best.

I have a .44 Special load using the Lee 200 grain RNFP (which drops at around 210 with my alloy) and 5.5 grains of Unique that goes mid 700's from my 20 inch Rossi. It's maybe louder than a .22LR...

Most of my boolits had been finger lubed, then run through a Lee push-through. Aside from getting beeswax-based lube on everything, there were other problems with my system.

I found that .430...

First, If you run your melt too cool, it'll freeze when it hits your sprue plate.
This happened to me after I got spooked that it was running too hot and I turned down the burner. It had me...

Here's Lee's chart for capacities of all their dippers with all the powders:

http://www.leeprecision.com/cgi-data/instruct/Dippers.pdf

For the last year, all I've used has been a Lee breech lock hand press. That's for .223, 30-06, and .44 Special and Mag.
We just moved last year and the basement is in a state of flux (read that...

The noted effect of bullet construction and speed is probably the most important factor; followed closely by, and tied to, distance beyond the obstacle to the target.

A couple examples with HV...

It's a good thing you did! All my wedding pictures would look different if you hadn't...

The good thing is that you can easily shorten the existing front sight to remedy a low point of impact. Much more easily than having to acquire and install a new sight.

I didn't have to do that...

Chrono results for 20 grains of IMR4227 under the Lee C-430-310-RF.

20 inch Rossi M92- 1345 fps avg. ES 48, SD 18
4 inch Redhawk- 986 fps avg. ES 103, SD 44
4 5/8 inch SBH- 1048 fps avg. ES 66,...