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Here's what I did, may not be the best approach but was cheap and painless. Buy Lee mold, $20 shipped. Buy Lee #20 pot, $60 shipped. Buy clean smelted wheel weight ingots from a vendor here in the...

Raccoons, possums, and maybe the rare coyote are the intended targets for this gun and load, but I seem to have plenty of my own! As for speed, I haven't chronoed any yet, but based on the book I'm...

It did open up pretty well, all things considered. If you could see it first hand you would see that it did mushroom asymmetrically, with the folded down 'petal' of lead on the thin side cracking a...

Tried my modified Lee 314-90 bullets in water jugs last week, yesterday tried them in wetpack. Results were promising again. Bullets were fired into wetpack from about 3', so very nearly muzzle...

Right now I've got a couple dozen of them loaded up to try, if they work I can live with the ugliness of the HP not being centered. If they shoot poorly, my plan is to put a flat nose pin in this...

I tried out an experiment with this bullet before the HP mod, and drilled one to test expansion in water. The results are in a post called something like '.32 expansion testing' or similar. Bottom...

Finished mod #2 to this mold, drilled one cavity for a large HP pin. This new mod wasn't quite as successful as the nose profile change, as I somehow got the HP a little off center. Will have to...

Used the method on this page for making a bushing and drilling a cavity, made a pin from a bolt and proceeded to cast a few. Haven't shot any yet, but hope to load up and shoot them in the next few...

Not exactly the same, but I just modified a Lee 314-90 pistol bullet into a wider meplat SWC with more weight. Your approach looks great if you want to keep the weight down, where I wanted to add...

I do agree that I probably wouldn't have had to do anything, but I'm an engineer first, and an amateur machinist second, so my guns get tinkered on whether they need it or not! If nothing else it...

As for powder these tests are with TiteGroup. I have a decent supply of it and these loads get me 2800 rounds to the lb. so it's pretty cheap. Current working load is 2.5 gn. I haven't chronoed...

I'd like to try these in a .32 Long out of a S&W 30 or 31, I think the solid version might make a pretty good personal defense choice given the long straight penetration and big flat point. Now if I...

No weight loss, and very noticeably more damage to the first and second jugs with the HP. Split the first top to bottom and blew the cap off, then split the second, before punching neat holes in and...

If you saw my thread about mold mods you have seen that I'm making an enlarge meplat version of the Lee TL314-90 SWC for my Ruger .32 SS. I just shot some milk jugs and thought I'd show some...

Good quality 0-1" micrometer. I'm measuring a soft lead slug tapped into the area of concern and then tapped back out. If measurements in all directions agree, that's what I post, if they are...

Fed-Ex brought the reamer yesterday, and today my throats measure exactly 0.3130" as best I can measure with a good mic. Haven't shot it yet, and like I said earlier, it wasn't that bad before, but...

Thanks for the advice, still leaning toward the Lee but didn't realize there was a micro disk available. My current charge is 2.5 gn. TiteGroup in a .32 H&R, but I'd like to be able to drop down a...

Still using the same bottle of RCBS lube that came with my Rock Chucker kit 22 years ago! A little goes a long way and I've never needed anything better even for some advance case forming jobs.
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First was 7-30 from 30-30 for my Contender, then went all out and developed a wildcat of my own which required lots of forming. The .17 Mojave Green, formed from .357 Magnum parent brass. Had to...

I have started loading for .32 in the last few months and my existing equipment isn't great at the small charges. I currently have an RCBS Uniflow, with the larger rifle drum. It will do down to...

Had a chance to shoot a few cylinders full yesterday from the Ruger SS .32 H&R. Using TiteGroup, 2.3 gn. was all over the paper even though it had shot the original shape well. I went up to 2.5 and...

To answer SciFiJim, the blocks were closed, using just the handles for closing pressure. I didn't want to clamp them in a vise and end up with an oblong hole. The cutter was fed in from the base...

Too busy to shoot any of them since I finished it. Cast about 35 keepers in a quick session last week, they've been lubed with LLA and are dry now, but haven't shot them. The standard bullet seemed...

I've just started casting with a Lee TL314-90 and decided I wanted a bit more weight and a wider meplat. At $20 shipped I wouldn't be out much if I messed it up. I turned a plug that fit snugly in...

All good thoughts, I appreciate them all. As for the 'shoot it out' idea, the gun is used and appears to have a fair amount of rounds through it, so I don't think it needs breaking in. I agree the...