cut the base off a fired shell and soder it to a copper pipe. this gives you a reservoir for the boolets. ben1025 AKA ben.
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Forum: Boolit Lube !
cut the base off a fired shell and soder it to a copper pipe. this gives you a reservoir for the boolets. ben1025 AKA ben.
Should have followed ben with a period as there is a ben on this forum.
ben1025 AKA ben.
Hello BruceB @ family:
Glad your feeling great. I have a few problems but considering I'm 78 probably shoudn't
mention it. Old age is rough on the body.
I just got back from New...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have common sense and am attentive, or so I thought. I burnt my house down cause the pot cracked. I used that pot numerous times B4. Don't take a chance use a pot in water. I
wish I had. ben1025...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Buckshot made a couple of Lee type for me. Came out perfect.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I mix it around 50/50 with odorless paint thinner. Swish it around in a plastic container. If you don't think there's enough on the bullet do it again. Don't take much. ben1025 AKA ben.
Forum: Cast Boolits
He came over yesterday with the gun and fired cases. A .381 paper patch bullet seats by hand in a fired case. We didn't slug the barrel but a .380 bhn 5 bullet engraved very nicely half inch in the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hi buckshot:
He is a reloader. Just not a cast bullet shooter. The gun is a original. Knowing him he researched it thorouhly. I seen the gun it was real nice. I had gave him .373,.375,.377...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Looking for some starting loads for a 38/56 with smokeless powder.
250 and 335 gr bullets. sizing dia and hardness and powder. FPS also. A
friend just bought a 1886 in that caliber. Came over for...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I had a old lyman furnace that had a adjustment screw in the middle of the adjustment shaft. Remove the adjustment knob and there was a little screw.
Turning that screw made the furnace hotter. It...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I use a case chambering tool on the alignment pin hole. Just don't get carried away.
Also I gave up dipping a mould 20 years ago. Get a hot plate or if you got a electric stove use it. I read a few...
Last year my wife and I stayed at the model T RV park. It's behind the model T casino and practically across the street from the cemetary. The rates were $20 per day.
Stay 2 days and get 3rd free....
Forum: Cast Boolits
My wifes brother is my nephew's dad. He passed on a few years ago. He was reloading for my nephew. Now I have the job. My nephew is a hunter not a recreational shooter. He has shot a lot of big game....
Forum: Cast Boolits
It just dawned on me that my nephew is a heating and plumbing contractor.
He's been in that business for 20 years. Right now he's running 12 trucks. I just called him up and asked what he did with...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
For quite a while I thought drop tubes were not very useful. So I thought I would do some testing. I do use a 24 inch drop tube. It settles the goex ffg .125. (45/70). I added 20 inch to the 24 and...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Good morning:
Just got off the phone with Walmart. I'm want to buy a 45/70 and a 444 Marlin.
I don't want the barrels just the receivers and stocks. Their warehouse has plenty
of...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have what they call a universal expanding die. I think they named it wrong.
It's a great flaring tool. It don't expand a case. I use mine a lot. Like it a lot. If you
need a expander tool you...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I don't do much pan lubing but when I do I use a fired round with rear cut off. Soder it to a copper pipe. Don't need to be sodered all around the case. The pipe will act as a reservoir and something...
Forum: Gas Checks
I've used Lyman lubrisizers for nearly 40 years and never used a lyman GC seater. I had one for 10 years B4 I knew what it was. I cut a piece of pipe 3/8 inch long split and spread it. Put it on the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Papabear: I talked to the old gal at Lyman. 1/2 irish and 1/2 italian. She sounds about as old as me. Didn't ask about warranty. Seeing I'm italian and my wife is irish sounded alright to her....
Forum: Cast Boolits
454PB: I think you are right about the nut being the part most likely to cause problems. As I said I been using a lyman for 37 years and up to yesterday never had a problem. I realized right off the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Tawildcatt: Your making me feel bad. How can anyone break a lyman. Well I did it yesterday. It was a new style 450. Been using lyman since 1970 with no problem till yesterday. Been using this one for...
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