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Larry, I plan on starting with my 'diluted' Lyman #2, the 95/2.5/2.5 alloy which in my first melt this afternoon tested BHN 10.5. I then casted about 50 each of the Lee 150s and Lyman 200. Here is...

Thank you all very much for your help on my quest for smaller groups at 50 to 100 yds.
For the last two years I have been using pistol range scrap that varies in hardness from 8 to 10 that I have...

Thank, that helps simplify things for me. (A retirement goal of mine). I have some Lyman #2 from Rotometals, is that a good place to start?

I have a Lyman 358530 mold that casts a 190 gr RN at .360 which is just a tad larger then the cylinder throats. I will give that a try.

I have been reading: Cast Bullet Alloys and Obturation By: Glen E. Fryxell and Heat Treating Lead/Antimony/Arsenic Alloys
By: Rick Kelter. I would like to create an alloy better suited to the...

We had walnut tree on the playground of my grade school in Omaha. You can imagine the mischief we go into with all that ammo.

I recently went thru the same wrinkle problem with a Lee six cavity 358-150 RN. Two days earlier it dropped good boolits, then next time nothing but wrinkles. Reading tips here I tried solvent...

I got muriatic acid from Ace Hardware, this is a potent acid. A couple drops on the ingots and very little happened. A few small bubbles appeared but no foaming as described in earlier posts so...

thanks, I will have to look up how to do that.

Yesterday on my way to Shooters Supply I stopped at the scrap dealer where they were very helpful. We pawed thru a bin of lead pipe and other soft scrap and came up with some ingots marked Lavin and...

I have managed to mine and clean 800 lbs from my local pistol range. Soft stuff, <8 BHN according to Lee.
Our backstop is a slanted, heavy steel plate, but on the front face is hung rubber...

Lots of good info here, thanks...I feels like I am back in school again. Thats good, I am a fan of lifetime learning.
Yesterday I cleaned up the brass I shot on Monday so will be heading out to...

Last week I had a blood lead concentration performed at the clinic. The results back are 5.2 mcg/dL.
I am 67 years old, grew up in a suburb, have not worked in a high exposure environment, have...

Great day at the range today, high of 52F. The Mauser gave me a 6" spread at 100 yards with the Williams sights. I either need more of a recoil pad or limit the loads. No misfires, no cracked...

EDG,
I am very thankful to you and all the other experienced reloaders and casters here on the Castboolits forum. This issue of die design styles is something I never thought of as I got involved...

Thanks, EDG for the post.
I have reformed 30-06 for my 8 x57 Mauser with only one smooth stroke of the Rockchucker not knowing there was any other way. My first bench rest tests of the one stroke...

OK, so it is not just my inexperience. Thanks.

Yesterday I set up to reform once fired 30-06 into 8 x 57 mm for my Mauser.
I had done about 30 rounds previously with an RCBS die set, but have not had an opportunity yet to fire them from a...

Here is the photo of the slug. 8x57 Mauser.
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k599/kd0etc/Mod%2098%20Mauser/F0F6B6E4-4B41-4AF6-BDF1-C376DA88268B_zpsoetztsbf.jpg

I do have a small sledge and...

Tim, I pounded three separate slugs today cast from fishing weights for a look at the throat and chamber. I will post pictures of them later after I do some editing on them. I used a steel rod and...

Goodsteel,
9.45 twist, that is close to 9.5 I measured. So that will limit the velocity.....Is that only for cast bullets? Can the jacketed ones be pushed faster? I see some comments that 2700...

Goodsteel, I have read the post you mention more than once. Thanks for putting that on the forum. Some of what you wrote I understand, and some I will need to study and practice more, like on doing...

Thanks, Ken. I know about tinkering, I have been a ham radio operator for a few years.
I will update the forum when I have had an opportunity to shoot these loads.

Retirement has given me the opportunityto progress from shooting factory loads in my Model 98 Mauser(Federal 170 grain) to casting and reloading my own bullets. My moldis a Lee C323471-175-1R that...

This Walther PPK 32 was one of a collection of guns my father brought back from France after WW2. ...