I’ve got several buckets of wheel weights built up and most still need sorting. Has anybody found cheap buckets that don’t crumble like potato chips after a while? I was thinking maybe tractor...
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I’ve got several buckets of wheel weights built up and most still need sorting. Has anybody found cheap buckets that don’t crumble like potato chips after a while? I was thinking maybe tractor...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
That is so AWESOME! I bet it took a while to get up to temperature? Would you mind sharing the brand of silicone mat used? I would order some from Amazon if I knew the best ones to get.
Also, is...
https://wn.nr/A5TnCw
^ link. I never win these. Probably low odds, but maybe y’all will have better luck. I sure would like to test out the new XD 10mm! Hopefully it has good case support and...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I’ve been eyeballing the $142 conversions for the Glock 17 on eBay. If I could cast my own boolits and make my own brass it would be worth it.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Does the old 2002 manual have any N310 data for 9mm? Thanks!
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
http://i.imgur.com/ymnaRCy.jpg
Took a 4 dollar gamble at Goodwill, no Hallmark found. Potmetal or Pewter?
Scroll down to post 1786 for a friendly reminder to proceed with caution. FWIW, there may be nobody living who has shot or loaded more 45 Super/ Rowland than the poster:
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I use both N320 and Sport Pistol with my coated bullets, love em! Even if you’re shooting titrgroup the same afternoon as loading, it burns so hot that coated bullets get Smokey and lead my...
Can anyone confirm if Mohers Magwheel or Flitz are appropriate at all? That’s what I’ve currently got to work with. I’ve been fortunate in having a 120 TC that seems to have broken in in its own and...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Edit: weighs 2 pounds 6 oz. my first estimate probably had a little ‘irrational exuberance’.
Almost questioning whether it’s real now.
http://i.imgur.com/Vf8slt1.jpg
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Brinelle Hardness on freshly cast from my Lee 120 TC mold is a hair over 9 air cooled and 10 when water dropped. It casts like a dream with good fillout. I wonder if I will air cooled and powder...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I kept these ingots separate, I like to keep my options open for alloying. I’m about to load a few up into my RCBS bottom pour and see how they behave. I will test an air cooled bullet now and...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Scored these two big chunks of lead a few months ago for 50 cents a pound. I believe the guy said they were used as some kinda wheel chocks, maybe for shipping. VERY labor intense to split them in...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Sharp research!! Not too bad for $1.50. Since it’s broken, it will make a nice addition to some low tin alloy :)
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I paid $1.58 for this, feels about like half a pound. No Hallmarks. Very bendable, sure feels like Pewter. Does it look real?
http://i.imgur.com/iufA0ZN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/tT0Ci7H.jpg
I wish my boolits would hold together when I shoot Steel so I could recover them. They pretty much vaporize.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Anybody have this mold? Is it pretty easy to cast with? How’s the accuracy in 9mm? Thinking of getting a 5 cavity PB.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I’d powdercoat them a different color and use them to blast steel at 15 yards.
Unless I caught it while casting (unlikely because I don’t like to pause and hurt my cadence), in which case I’d...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Do you Smoke? You can buy a lot of lead for the price of a month’s cigarettes.
Forum: Cast Boolits
OP, this is one of those times I wish we had a ‘like’ button on the forum!
Forum: Casting Equipment
Preordered from Brownells with their 11% discount code. Rebate for 25 bucks has to be received by Jan 31; I will cancel order if pot doesn’t ship before then. I could use this to ‘smelt’ a few...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Got a free shower pan myself the other day. Seems like pure lead for sure. Makes me wonder what outher sources of lead could be scrounged from remodeling projects.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Scored a 60 to 80 pound shower basin for free today. Was super excited, but the more I read up on it, the more I think I'll have to spend to make useful 9mm boolits with it. Looks like coming up...
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 |