Powder Valley and Graf's both have AA5 and AA9 in stock. FWIW, AA5 was my 'go-to' for IPSC 'Major' with a 185 SWC for quite a few years.
Bill
Type: Posts; User: Kraschenbirn
Forum: Cast Boolits
Powder Valley and Graf's both have AA5 and AA9 in stock. FWIW, AA5 was my 'go-to' for IPSC 'Major' with a 185 SWC for quite a few years.
Bill
Forum: Reloading Equipment
+1 for KISS (Keep It Simple and Stupid). Bought one of these 12-15 years ago. so far, it's outlasted one Franklin Arsenal tumbler and is working on a second.
Bill
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
At typical handgun range (25 yards or less), shooting unsupported, I doubt if you'll be able to tell the difference. I've got a Series 70 Gold Cup that I've shot with the same H&G #68 boolit for...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Hmmmm...the commercial indoor range right up the road doesn't allow handloads or lead boolits and about 3/4 of their ammo for sale is MagTech. (Less than a mile from where I'm sitting and, due to...
Forum: Our Town
We have a small flock that's been residing on our club range for the past few years. Great habitat for them...no hunting allowed, creek running down east property line, corn/soybean fields on both...
Shortly after receiving my first DCM Garand, I bought a quart can of original Lubriplate...still have about half left. For everything else, 5W-20W Mobile One.
Bill
Forum: Cast Boolits
'Nother happy NOE customer...never had a bad experience...Tom even called me one evening, after business hours, to answer a question about the correct profile punch for a nose sizing die. So far a...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Serviceable 7.5 Swiss can be easily reformed from .284 Win by simply running the .284 cases through a 7.5 Swiss full-length die. Necks will be a smidge short...like forming 30-40 Krag from .303...
Forum: Cast Boolits
While I pan-lube for all my BPCR calibers, I've been powder coating everything else for several years without encountering any disadvantage. In my experience, accuracy is about a 50-50 toss-up (I...
Forum: Our Town
I'm 79 and was diagnosed for 'wet' AMD in my left eye a little over 20 years ago. Underwent lazer surgery to cauterize the affected portion of the retina which, at that time, was the 'standard'...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
When I was at the old Federal #3 two years ago (see my post #8), I was told by one of the (ex-miner?) tour guides that when the mine was shut down, after the salvageable equipment was removed, the...
IIRC, the Striker was based on the Savage 110 action so it likely that a any 110 barrel could be shortened and turned down to a Striker profile. Or, you could send the gun to JES and have the 22-250...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
+1 on 1970 or earlier for the 'diamond-pattern' boxes. I got out of the Army in mid '69 and was reloading again by the end of the year. IIRC, CCI SPs were $.89/100 @ Lorrie's Sports in downtown...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Was at the Missouri State Historical Site at Park Hills (old Federal Mine #3) and went through the museum there. Really interesting and the museum staff...mostly former mine employees...are willing...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Kinda reminds me of the time, back in the mid-1980s, when I called Dillon with a question about setting up my then-new Square Deal and Mike Dillon answered the phone. He said everyone else was out...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Had my Labradar out yesterday morning. Two 10-shot strings of gas-checked.308 WCF with PC @ 1800-1850 fps. without a hiccup. Did miss one or two intermediate velocities...was set to record velocity...
Forum: Our Town
Area around Marquette is nice; a very clean mix of Midwest college town and considerable maritime history. Some great 'photo ops' for those with the interest.
Bill
Forum: Cast Boolits
[Only empty pot if I'm changing alloy and that is easy with my dipper pot for the ladle, just use welding gloves pick it up carefully (very carefully) and dump out the lead after using a ladle to get...
Forum: Our Town
I watch the consignment sales on a couple of downstate auction houses and, from what I've seen, 'unusual/rare' ammo doesn't seem to bring any real premium money there. A week ago, I snagged 100...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I saw some H4895 earlier this week...@ $42.50 (plus tax) a pound!!
I've been using one of the DeWalt "2 in 1 stackable" tool carts for several years. Can fit in everything I need for a range session except my big Meade spotting scope...and its case has a shoulder...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I do it all the time...flawed/damaged/pulled boolits, boolits designs that just didn't work out for one reason or another, boolits that I no longer have guns for, etc. Right now, have active bids on...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Pick it up, run it in the tumbler for a while, inspect and sort by headstamp, reload, and shoot. Not much more to it. Last week, I picked 102 lightly-tarnished, once-fired Hornaday .308s out of the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Back when I was shooting a lot of NRA Action Pistol competition, CCI primers were notorious for being 'hard'. I had a couple revolvers, 'tuned' by the S&W Custom Shop, that were totally unreliable...
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 |