Thanks for the heads up! We use organic PB, but I'll pass the word along to my friends.
Type: Posts; User: LeadThrower
Forum: Our Town
Thanks for the heads up! We use organic PB, but I'll pass the word along to my friends.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Thanks for the details and the suggestion, Dave!!
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Dave,
I've been considering the LM for 308, as well. However, I was going to buy the bare press and accessorize from there. I seat primers by hand in all calibers, and, like you, I have enough...
Forum: Factory Rifles
So, I made some pinker loads and got to the range. Replicate at your own peril, etc., so here's my data:
110 grain Hornady varmint (#3010)
Salut powder (nearly identical to Unique in every load...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Good to hear, swamp, thanks!
starmac, yep, I pull the bolt and look down the barrel after each round that my chronograph fails to register.
Forum: Factory Rifles
Anyone use the following with an appropriate load of Unique or other pistol powder in a .308 win bolt gun for cheap shooting or low power small game loads? Mine is a Ruger Gunsite Scout. If you've...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Stole a water heater? That's insane!
I made a drop of scrap iron and my last bucket of bullet jackets (from the lead smelting) at a local recycler and told them about my lead. The manager...
Forum: Cast Boolits
A few weeks ago I saw a couple clowns getting talked to by the police as they were stealing from a pile of iron (rebar, etc.) on a construction site in broad daylight, in the median of the highway. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks for the kind words! Aside from the theft, I'm not in a position any longer where I can do the smelting, even if I had the lead. I've moved a bit more "into the city", so the neighbors would...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Readers,
I've returned after a long break from Cast Boolits to offer up my lead smelter (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=158108) free to a good home, as a result of a recent lead...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I think we do ourselves and our visitors a good thing when we revisit such important details in new threads.
I've caught double charges before, and changed my methods to avoid it. I, too, use 2...
Forum: Our Town
If a cartridge is a bullet and a bullet is a bullet tip, what do these folks call the primer pocket? It strains reason to think what a punctured primer is called in their world...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Not to defend or attack anyone, but simply to put some honest science into this thread:
Analysis of metal alloys was most likely performed on an ICP-MS. That's an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass...
Forum: Leverguns
I have a Mountain Molds custom mould. It's a truncated cone 215 grain whomper of a boolit for the 357. I designed it based upon a chamber cast of my Marlin. It feeds flawlessly and leaves the...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Some background: Thermite reactions are a general class of reactions where an active metal is used to reduce a less active metal. The typical thermite reaction is conducted with powdered aluminum...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Mercaptans get their odor from the thiol functional group. They're similar to the alcohol functional group, but replace the oxygen in the -OH (alcohol) with sulfur to make -SH (thiol). Mercaptans...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
If the black powdery residue is truly a mixture of metal oxides and little else, the metal(s) could be recovered nicely in a thermite reaction. This is another "what if" experiment and not something...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Folks have been talking about the noxious fumes of burning sulfur, but I didn't see anyone identify the product. It's sulfur dioxide, and truly nasty stuff. Take the words of caution seriously --...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Looks like a winner! Heed 45nut's warning. Also, kiss those handles goodbye if you're using a propane burner. They won't survive the heat, but you're not likely to want to move it when it's hot. ...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Cigar boxes are the best boolit containers. Getting the original product out of them is a real pleasure, and once they're empty they are free, they stack nicely, and they sure look a lot better than...
Forum: Casting Equipment
All that stainless sure is pretty! Mine is just steel plate so I painted it flat black with high-temp paint. Nice work, thanks for the pics! This is one more example for the big lead pot sticky.
Forum: Casting Equipment
If you're actually going with a turkey-fryer setup, they're frequently in the 50,000 btu range and that's enough heat to melt 60+ lbs of lead in a large cast iron dutch oven. Look for "King Kooker"...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Well, I finally got around to making some necessary changes to the solenoid-actuated lead pot. Now it's fully functional and doesn't overheat. A single momentary push button fires the hold-in and...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I see no problem with that!!:twisted: [smilie=w:
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 |