The Sleeping Giant has been awakened. Lube on.
Type: Posts; User: Engineer1911
Forum: Boolit Lube !
The Sleeping Giant has been awakened. Lube on.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Ben's Red with a splash of automatic transmission fluid. I have a 2 qt Teflon aluminum saucepan for melting lube components. Follow Ben's instructions and I add 1/4 cup ATF to pan full of lube. I...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Please give a clear explanation of how I'm saving money scrounging berm bullets and range brass to supplement my meager lead and brass pile to cast bullets and reload ammunition. Now after doing...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
This is why you buy RCBS sizer dies and a 50-count bag of extra pins, large pins, small pins. headed pins. You don't need to worry about breaking pins again.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Twenty-Five years ago the Church had a large box of 4" tall beeswax altar candle stumps. After saving them for 5 years, it was decided to throw them out. I was in the right place at the right time....
Forum: Reloading Equipment
It only requires a simple test, 1 case, and 1 bullet. The normal drill; size, flare case mouth, insert bullet into case, seat bullet, crimp bullet while adjusting crimp / seating die further down.
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Forum: Boolit Lube !
I am not an expert, but I had some cast bullets that lost all their 'shine' , turned a dull gray color, loaded in cases and fired at mid-range charges of 357 and 44 magnum loads. Leading and poor...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Very true, right up until you have that hidden 32 ACP case in a 45 ACP or 22 LR in 9 MM when you load using a case feeder. Now you have an opportunity for profane language, vise grips, channel...
I've made $4K on my 401K in the past 3 months, have a #3 RCBS extended shell holder, but would need dies. I have a +bucket of 308 / 30-06 brass and sufficient experience annealing brass case necks. ...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I've used the SB 223 x-die with trimmed brass and annealed untrimmed brass. I prefer the annealed brass. My process is tumble brass to clean, anneal the necks, and then full length resize without...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
This thread will feature amazing Estate Sales of lead alloy for younger members to buy.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
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Now we can order stuff
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
If you have the access think BIG ! I built a 1/4" hardware cloth screen using a 2" x 4" frame. The hardware cloth was 24" x 6 feet long. I used two 8' 2 x4 studs with 21 long cross pieces. I had...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Protecting your property and loved ones or
Target rich environment in a neighborhood near you.
In February/ March time frame I received emails from MidwayUSA and MidSouthShooters offering...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
^^^^^ nhyrum is absolutely correct -- unfortunately. ^^^^^
I can only dream of an "automated" Dillon 650 and bottle neck cases. I use one at the indoor range loading handgun ammo, never thought...
Forum: Our Town
If you didn't learn about shortages of critical reloading supplies during the Clinton or Obummer years, you just don't get out very often.
Forum: Vintage Ammo
45-70 UMC. "U.S. SPRINGFIELD RIFLE MUSKET / Model 1874". Berdan primers, ca late-1870s. Box only has (and ever had) a top primary label. RARE!
266698 I have this box and 20 loaded, Berdan primed...
I mounted the BSA large diameter red dot sight on a S&W M629 with a 3" barrel. After firing 300 full load 44 magnums through the gun, the cylinder will never come clean again, very light barrel...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I learned some "interesting lubrication" information from this sticky. Next time I resize brass, my home made lube will get a spoonful of Dawn dishwashing liquid, a product that has many uses...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
AMERC = Junk
AMERC ≤ Junk
AMERC brass does not keep the primer in the primer pocket when the bullet is seated.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Wait for the Lee upgraded version of the Dillon 450 progressive press, all of the functions including 1/2 price replacement warranty.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I achieve orgasmic satisfaction throwing away deformed brass. I've been able to devote extra years of life to reloading and gotten rid of 25 gallons of "scrap brass" -- sometimes just because I can!
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Save time, throw the steel sizer die away, and use your new carbide set. You can't load enough ammo to wear out that new RCBS die. I've been using mine since 1976 -- about 125K rounds of 38 Spl and...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I have had 44 mag and 357 mag cases stuck in a cylinder because the case was too long. I trim that brass once and forget it. The cases developed mouth cracks before they need trimming a second...
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BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
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