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Another option would be to change your alloy to have a larger bullet and then lube and shoot as cast.

I use this approach for the 40 and use the Johnson wax/alox mix over a bit of unique. Loading...

This one got the gold star. I disassembled the die and the internal plunger showed a very fine wire on the outside edge of the top. I polished this off. Next, I took an under sized drill bit from...

air cooled

Yes it is a new die and bullet mold. Working cast bullets for 375 H&H and 38/55.
The few bullets I have sized appear smooth as glass. I will do a visual check.
I may also run an ID...

got some on the loading bench and will give it a try. Many thanks.

I had tried (just because it was near me on the bench) a fingertips lubing with synthetic 5-20 motor oil. It did not do anything.

Thanks. I tried lubing before, plain bullet w/o gas check, different lubes...no avail.
I even went back and re-read the set-up directions just to see if something was not as it should be...

I am using a RCBS 375-250 mold casting bullets that drop at .376 to .3765 from an alloy of WW and a bit of tin to make a bullet showing a hardness of BH 12. I am sizing to .375 with a Lyman H&I .375...

Peter72 this sight is for a S740, the model I am working with is a S738

The tang is NOT drilled for tang style rear sights.

I think some of my sighting is just a bit of age and need to develop...

BigBore52...I think your bullet weight is interesting as I am hovering around 413 gr with the rcbs gc and about 422 with the lyman 457643. I do not see me using this as anything fast and loud, but...

Yes it really is a nice piece of eye candy. Mine has a stock that looks like tiger eye stripes. I was most impressed with the checkering. It is perfect, and I am fussy about that. I thought I came...

rather than me repeat the info, check here http://www.davide-pedersoli.com/tipologia-prodotti.asp/l_en/idt_91/rifles-model-1886-lever-action.html

I have not compared them.

I took delivery of this rifle after a six month building period I ordered it in June). I believe it is one of ten now in the US. It is a beautiful piece. I am trying some 405 rcbs gc some Lyman...

I found my own answer as shown in this pic. It is down this page a bit and was of use to me. Hopefully it will be the same for others.
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Well one mystery is solved. I cast some 457122 using 10 pounds ww to 1/2 pound rotometals super hard with one pound of lino. The resulting bullet weighed 336.6 grains (or at least the four I randomly...

Truth be known I have shot only at 100 yards thus far with this rifle. I set-up a IPSC target on a large box, backed by sand filled tires and placed a fifty yard small bore bullseye on the top of the...

PER THE MARLIN WEB SITE...
Model 1895 Cowboy
With their tapered octagon barrels, these rifles offer true cowboy-rifle heft and aesthetics for everyone from the die-hard Cowboy Action Shooter to the...

Here is where I am at...I am loading new starline brass, fresh from the box, non-annealed, using a lyman 457122, 457193, 457643 cast boolit. First casting were showing BHN of 15. WW lLRr Rem 91/2...

I received a Lyman 457193 mould yesterday and started casting some bullets for my .45-70 Gemmer. I always hate the fussiness of getting the shipping oil off a mould and getting it broke in for some...

Just make sure when laying out a dovetail , especially for a rear sight, that you take and make your initial cut lines square to the bore and not to the barrel side if your barrel is swamped...

Thanks for that post...I have been trying to decide if I want to start loading for the little cartridge or not. I tend to want to handload for everything, but this thing looks like a buch of work. Oh...

I do not know the answer, but rest assured that you are not alone.
I do believe the sprayer breaking is subjected to costs of contents, immediacy/urgency of need and time to replace said can. As all...

I seem to remember reading where prior to water hardening bullets were to be sized as they would be too hard after heating and dunking.

I thought there is no way a lead mix is going to be harder...

Your efforts at water hardening my not be worth the effort if you are not using the correct alloy's. Some will temporary harden and basically return to the basic material, some will keep much harder....

Thanks 44 man!

44 man...Sorry if I have created confusion...I was not addressing the accuracy issue with regard to the going "bang" comment. I just could not see how a compressed load of 110 would NOT go bang with...

In the past year Precision Shooting mag showed a series of primers being fired and the flash generated from each type. There were some very surprizing differences in the observable flashes produced....