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Thanks to everyone for the replies. There's definitely some food for thought here. I'm surprised to find how many don't crimp. The chart showing better std dev with crimping is interesting too.
I...

There's a guy in Amazon selling these:
3 in 1 - Die Wrench for Lee Precision Reloading Dies Using Spline Nuts
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It's just 3D printed, but seems to be good quality for a 3D print. It fits...

Are you guys crimping bottlenecks for magazine fed bolt action? (taper or Lee FCD)
The "universal wisdom" - which is far less universal than it used to be - was that crimps are for semiautos, not...

They have a chamfer at the mouth to help get the projectile started. In my experience, I've never had one with taper like this - the referenced .007 was below the chamfer (not including it - chamfer...

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I got impatient... :guntootsmiley:

I ended up just going to .321 and straightening it out. Even though I took less than .001 at the mouth, you can see how much got taken off at the...

My Uberti 1849 pocket has never shot well. I ended up getting a .22 conversion for it and forgot about it, but recently I decided to see if I could get it to shoot better with balls and powder.

I...

Thanks for the help with shipping ammo.

I'll do $180 shipped for just the cylinder.
Or
Cylinder + 4 boxes (200 rounds total) of Magtech LRN:...

I'll look into it tomorrow and update if it's not too crazy to ship... I've never shipped ammo before.

For sale:
Howell Old West Conversions Conversion Cylinder 31 Caliber Uberti 1849 Pocket Steel Frame Black Powder Revolver 32 S&W 5-Round Blue

Cylinder has been used twice, still like new.
$185...

I finally got around to shooting some more of the 45-70 I loaded last fall. The leading was terrible at 1500 fps.

I don't know what the temperature is like where you are using it... In cold weather it chipped and flaked for me. Baking or not didn't matter.
The can I got from the Amazon link earlier in the...

Will a 550gr boolit feed in a Marlin?

If the block isn't faced in the same operation as the cavity is cut, it could be out of square.

Actually, part of the problem is that retailers are not selling at market prices.
If the Wal-Marts put the price at $80/500 for awhile this would go away.
Price would come back down.

It's pretty much Econ 101.
If the author is wrong, so is virtually every economics professor in the world.

The article explains equilibrium in a free market, and states that government...

I wish there was a like button here.
I'm amazed at how many people with no gluten allergy think gluten free is somehow healthier.

Thanks!

It looks like Midway doesn't have front & rear as a kit.
If a guy only needed the rear, that's a lot less expensive.

It's like using "I feel" instead of "I think"... It takes responsibility off of the speaker.

I'm thinking about isopropyl alcohol now...

I just picked up an old Redding scale. It says on the box that it is hydraulic dampened.

There is an aluminum fin on the bottom of the beam, hanging into a cavity on the base. I assume some kind...

That gets you a medal for being a hardcore reloader.

Instead of a medal, you'd get a trophy and hall of fame status if you pulled the lead out of your foot and resmelted it. :p

Feels like we need the last verse of the perfect country song:

Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison, and I went to pick her up in the rain,
But before I could get to the station in...

There are companies that will make a ring out of a case head. I would do that with that piece of brass.

Most of the methods mentioned assume there is no taper in the boolit.
If you have taper and don't have access to a CMM or comparitor, it would be tricky to determine how square the base is to the...

It's just so commonly used that a lot of people don't give any thought to an exact meaning when they use it.
It's just part of every day language.

Originally when the term came into common use...