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4064 for rifle powder. I don't shoot many small calibers, mainly .30/06 and 7mm-08.

HS-6 for handgun. Produces good enough velocity in my magnums (very accurate loads though) and is perfectly...

I've put that same boolit through 36 inches of wet pack and still had enough energy to pop through 2" of compressed, taped up magazines. That was with a muzzle velocity of just over 1300 fps. I was...

No experience in .357 but I've ran a 265gr plain base boolit upto 1700fps out of my marlin .44 mag. 100 Yard groups just started tightening up before I got flowing brass unfortunately. 50 Yard groups...

Don't use that boolit but I use a ranch dog .43 cal boolit and will share my findings about accuracy with you.

Size matters, if your boolit is to big in diameter it won't fit to the base of the...

Basically a 20:1 but instead of using pure I used 50/50.

I wanted something that could be HT so I could use the same alloy for using in sabots for my ML. 16:1 was to soft as it would expand when...

Gotta love Rugers customer service. I had a case stick due to a split case, bent the ejector rod and broke the screw wile trying to remove it. Called them and got a new ejector assembly 4 business...

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Boolit on the left is a 245gr hollow point. It penetrated aprox 15". Boolit on the right is a 255gr CP. It penetrated aprox 22".

These are the results of my "hunting alloy"...

That is just the loading information they used when developing that particular load. Just like any load data it is a guide giving data and information based on the variables they presented, change...

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Boolit on the left is a hollow point, starting weight with powder coat is 246gr. Total expansion is .74" and retained weight is 237gr.

Boolit on the right is a cup point,...

They have them for free in some local stores alongside the classifieds and such in the front of the store.

Look up Elvis ammo on YouTube, he has some 357 mag stuff and I believe he has some 38 special stuff too.

All my personal testing has been with muzzleloaders and .44 mags in both rifle and handgun

For 9mm velocities I'd likely start somewhere around 30-1 lead/tin and go from there. I do the majority of my testing in soaked phone books and find that to be a pretty accurate representation of...

Look into NOE RG molds, that's what I have for my 44 and I love that thing. As far as alloys goes you're gonna need to leave out the antimony and cast pure lead and tin to best avoid fragmentation....

Jacketed cores have some antimony in them as they can be heat treated IME. If you're looking for pure lead from range scrap then you're looking for foster slugs, .22's and Miniè balls.

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I have a NOE ranch dog 2 cavity mold that I have issues with consistently filling the drive bands between the lube groves. After casting with nearly a 40% cull rate for over a year I discovered,...

It is my opinion based apon my research and my personal experiences that the "sharp" pedals or ridges on a jacketed bullet only
measurably increases tissue damage towards the end of the wound...

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The grandson of the girl he lived with apparently used the gun at some point in the last few years and stored it outside in an open shed. The entire barrel, inside and out, was rusted and pitted...

My late grandfather passed me down an old marlin 44 mag. It was his deer gun for the latter part of his life but he neglected any maintenance the last couple years and the inside of the bore and...

Thanks for the responses, it's been an interesting read thus far. I'll retry the 20-1 and 16-1 in all wetpack, see how that goes. Along with the 50/50 +5%.

Does anyone think that my source of tin...

I consistently shoot 50yrds and keep a fist size group but there are some flyers that worry me ( about 1 every 10 rounds or so) which is why I said "most likely 20-30 yards"

The increase blood...

1 gallon jug of water for expansion backed by soaked phone books to catch the boolit. Fragmentation is occurring in the water. The fragments are sizable, usually consisting of one 1/4"X3/4" crescent...

I've dabbled with this but struggled to get the proper "joint" between the two mixes. I've also heat treated some boolits then annealed the business part. That method works great in my muzzleloader...

I PC my range loads but use the pan lube for anything I water drop.

I use a gallon jug of water backed by soaked phone books to catch the round.

I'll try some COWW + 5% and see what that does...

I'm getting a mean muzzle velocity of 1323fps with an SD of only 7fps ES of 19fps. Results from an 18 shot string.