Clays is popular with .45 Auto in USPSA because it barely reaches major power factor, the recoil is low, and it tends to be fairly accurate. I used it with 230LRN. The down side is, you're running...
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Clays is popular with .45 Auto in USPSA because it barely reaches major power factor, the recoil is low, and it tends to be fairly accurate. I used it with 230LRN. The down side is, you're running...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I tried the big pot idea today. All I really accomplished was fire-testing the ammo-can I keep my primers in. My Coleman stove didn't seem to be burning right and certainly wasn't up to the task of...
Forum: Our Town
I can't imagine why anyone but a widow would sell a 625.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I went after it with an axe and sledge for a half hour and got a two pound chunk off. I took a try at the sawsall and it was going slower than that. I can see why people use a chainsaw.
I like...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I varies in thickness up to about 6 inches.
Forum: Cast Boolits
If you were blessed with the challenge of getting a 200+ chunk of lead in the smelting pot how would you do it?
The lead is some sort of weight, so it has a few steel bolts through some parts of...
Forum: Leverguns
As promised, my 300 grain bullets are .458. They are are fp though, not rn. Also tested them at BNH of 15. Note that I have not driven them hard.
Forum: Leverguns
I bought my 1985XLR on the second as well. It must have been a good day for them. :Fire:
I got some 300g Laredo LRN bullets at the same time. No leading over 15g of Trail Boss the other day...
I take it back. Mine is the 48th. and they seem to have dropped both of those sections.
Ha! I own that book! I never think to look in print anymore! :roll:
Thanks
I'm just getting in to casting and mentioned it to the right person yesterday. I bought all his molds and a couple hundred pounds of lead today. :-D
I plan to start with the .358 caliber, of...
USPSA major is 1044fps for a 158g boolit. I was hoping to get away without using a gas check. Please let me know if you still feel like I'll need one for sure or be better served by one.
All...
I'm just getting started casting and everything seems fairly straight-forward except mold selection. I'm looking for an accurate load for USPSA (major) and small game.
I've had leading problems...
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 |