I picked over 100lbs of elderberries last year. Makes some darn good pancake syrup, jelly, and WINE!! :)
Type: Posts; User: steve in kc
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
I picked over 100lbs of elderberries last year. Makes some darn good pancake syrup, jelly, and WINE!! :)
IMR doesn't specify a load for a 135gr cast or jacketed bullet. Not saying it can't be done, but there's not proven load by that powder manuf listed.
Now, having said that, in the LEE Reloading...
Forum: Leverguns
I double lube with LLA on my C309-150-F (straight wheel weights) using 30.2 Gr of H4895. Holes touch at 50 yards and I get 1.5" at 100 yards and no leading shooting a 70's era 336.
Forum: Casting Equipment
I've never read of this. I've read of numerous issues with ALUMINUM pots giving way from the prolonged heat and weight, but never a cast iron dutch oven.
Forum: Casting Equipment
What is your percieved risk of using a dutch oven and a turkey fryer? Thousands of us do it all the time and safely to boot.
Forum: Cast Boolits
stock tank filled with a brine solution (water + water softener salt or some other form of salt) not sure of the salinity you would need, but it will make all the rubber float to the top and lead to...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I do. Mostly because I cast with 2 bangers and a coleman stove and use a LEE dipper. When I get to the point to where I can't get a full dipper (I like big SPRUES and I cannot lie!) Then I find...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
You win. From here forth no one is allowed to gripe about being too cold to cast or shoot.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Mother-fluxer batman! My wife told me today that she and the boys are going on their annual winter pilgrammage to the indoor water park/hotel on Sunday at noon and will be home Monday late. We're...
Forum: Our Town
I got through to LEE this morning.
Neither the puller or trimmer will be out until early next year (2012).
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Hate to be a wet blanket guys as I was looking forward to the trimmer and puller myself, but I FINALLY got through at LEE this morning and talked to Kathy.
Neither one will be available until...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Man I wish. I used to do competitive bbq competitions and have placed as well as 13th in pork at the American Royal (what can I say, I'm a KC boy and it's in my 'back yard'!) If I had land, hell...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Weatherman says it's going to be 50ºF this weekend!!!
Freaking heatwave!!!!!!!
I have alloy to make, brass to prep, bullets to cast, and loads to make!!!
I might just disappear after morning...
Forum: Our Town
Any word when these products will be available? I tried calling LEE but it was busy (I know, shocker!)
Forum: Cast Boolits
:-P
I've been looking for one for a looooooooong time but could never find one, until I looked at the cast boolit mecca (Dollar General Store) and low and behold...a TWO PACK for $1.75??
I had...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Out of the 65lbs of dead soft lead pipe I melted down into ingots a few weeks ago, there were two pieces, which I have been told are called 'boots'? They appeared to be a cylinder/cannister that had...
I want to pick up a devastator mold in 45acp and found some used handles here in the swap/sell section, however, I just noticed that even though the devastator mold is a single cavity mold, it calls...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Little trick i used so they wouldnt stick the first time i used this muffin pan a year ago. I took a propane torch and heated up each cup so all the non-stick stuff was burnt off sprayex with water...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a343/steveinkc1974/a838f6aa.jpg
A big pile of pure lead muffins. 64 lbs of dead soft lead from pipe.
Forum: Leverguns
I figured he hadn't bought any in a while. Some of the boxes of his empty had a price tag on them (winchester 350 hollowpoint) that said $22.97!!!. God only knows how long ago THAT was!!
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
A friend of mine's son finagled away a "big bucket" (larger than 5 gallons assumably) from the firestone he worked at BEFORE they were contracted to recycle all of their weights. He wanted it to...
Forum: Leverguns
My buddy and I got to talking guns just before christmas and he showed me a picture of the buck he took this rifle season with it. Told me he loved to shoot but how the ammo was so danged expensive...
My Lee 452-228-1R drops at .453
My Lee 452-200-RNFP drops at .454
both with air cooled WW's. Haven't beagled either one.
Guess I'm darn lucky!
Forum: Leverguns
I will soon start to cast and reload for this rifle. Not mine, but a friend's.
http://www.uberti.com/firearms/images/1885_high_wall_ss_sport.jpg
Any tip's, tricks, or other rifle/caliber...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
oh the addiction has been around for a year. I'm sadly (happily) hooked. Problem is, there are only two scrap yards out of 20+ in the KC area that will sell lead to the individual and they all want...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
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 |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |