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One 1980 revolver. Unfired.


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PC. If it wasn't invented I would not have started casting.


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has anyone ever had a primer go off when using a kinetic puller?


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Avoid triple-k magazines. The steel ones made by "new" high standard can be made to work with 6-8 rounds by shortening the spring.

I bought 3 cheaper-than-dirt high standard pistols for spare...

Moving to N340 on soft lead 45 probably also, for logistical reasons among other things. In Finland we cannot legally and easily store many kinds of gunpowders because of idiotic laws. The situation...

Some oil and boresnake and it's squeky clean.

N320, light load (pf 160 or so, 230gr Lee RN bullets).

No lead. Just black residue.

230gr Lee RN.
120 rounds, coated with HF red.
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1/1000" max. No fouling, minimal amount of coal-black residue granules.

Exactly correct. The 120TC feeds well and is of almost perfect shape and size. Just too light, and the grease groove is positioned at the case rim unless one loads Very short cartridges.

Probably...

I would win the "toughest Chrony"-competition. I have shot my chrono body 3 times. The plastic lenses etc are destroyed, but the thing still works.

I found a load that allows me to use powder-coated soft lead bullets in 9mm, while making IPSC Power Factor of over 125.

I modified the Lee 120TC mold by dremeling off the grease groove, adding...

I was lucky with that fistfull. Here's the data about weight:
n=49



avg



126,226530612245

Measured bullet weight with soft lead (range scrap with 1.5% tin added) 126.2-126.4gr. Nearly none under 126.2, very few over 126.4! I will measure proper statistics some other time, this was from a...

It does not seem to need the clamp weight. I'll add a smaller weight or a spring probably.

Cleaner alloy helps too... :-)

The tricks I learned from this forum seemed to work:

1) the usual emptying + cleaning
2) drilled out the hole to 1.5mm diameter (no idea what it was originally)
3) polished the stake and the...

THANK YOU. I was wondering the same thing, took mine apart last month and was left with the washer.

The shoulder bolt comes loose in use... maybe the washer helps keep it tightened...?

Mistake 1:
I put the pot on, then left the area and forgot it for about 20 minutes.
It dipped about 9 pounds of lead into a nice inverted mushroom. I had to hammer that sucker hard to get it to...

I may have access to some 300kg rolls of lead plate soon. Now, pure lead is different from range scrap, I may have to find a source for free tin.

But I still intend to go for soft lead only, no...

Bangerjim thanks for the comment. I came to the same conclusion concerning range scrap after one try - but think it this way; Learning a skill that approximately 100% of the population of the earth...

The first time I had elaborately pieced candles for flux. This time I brushed the workplace floor for sawdust and just used a pinch of it.

First time, I cleared the surface of the alloy after...

I mined my private "range" so there were very few 12gauge slugs, but yes, they felt like treasure.

Thank you - yes it was fun once, I was like a kid in a sandbox.

I'm casting 9mm bullets as I write this, and they are much smoother than my first batch. I'd say the learning curve is inverse...

...and last time. I just wanted to know how it goes. Tons of work, it does work, I got about 20kg of stuff out of the ground. Of that weight, probably almost half was ****.

A pot of .22lr range...

I like them so I made 2000 more.
:-) Time to make more ingots. Everything seems to go as planned, because I planned for 2 years before actually starting casting and coating. It's incredible - I now...

I tried the dry tumble coat method for the first time yesterday. Just put a couple of hundred bullets in a plastic bowl with 1 spoonfull of the red HF paint. Tumbled on top of a tumbler for 5 mins....