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For black powder, I tried and used several methods. Which is best is just upon your ammo. Even in the same gun, different ammo (lube) may need different aproach, as we all know (or find quite soon)....

When using BP and reduced loads/preventing bullet slip into case, throw some cream of wheat or semolina atop of powder. Just enought to give you about 3 mm compression in the compressing die to get...

I´ve seen a short writing from about 1920´s from Ideal about these molds being easy to mfg with just a drillpress-if it is rigid enought. But I must say that lathe shortens the time and makes a lot...

I´ve found the hard way (stuck nosepunch, ruined body) that abovementioned tolerances are too close. You can make them such close on about 1/16" width of the thin-walled lip of the nosepunch cavity,...

I´m playing with this rifle also. The chamber is still and all the time the same, for 60 mm cartridge lenght. As was many times written, the brass was shortened in the neck only-probably to obtain...

Yes, but those were the testers I wrote about. To make the "activated carbon" from coal at density lesser than about 600 kg/m3 is awfully complicated and demanding process, the sometimes encounterd...

As far as I know, this was tested just from scientists curiosity-to no useable result. Simply because of structural differences of the coal and charcoal.

The charcoal is highly porous-due to...

Well, not so much without a machine shop, but surely with less machine shop than in the sticky. You need just small lathe with 3-jaw, set of collet holders will make you very hapy and 4-jaw will help...

Nice, perfect and-not have enought fitting words. Hat down to Your father, he had blood very close to mine-a gun is for shooting. And what he got together seems to be the nicest what I can think...

Two more things not mentioned yet:
-Alloy consistency. You need to stirr the melt frequently, about every time you return the laddle back to melt or every time you wait for setting of the bullet you...

Depends on what and how are you going to reload. If any one or more from list below:
-Feeding your cases with Holy black (esp. if depriming on the press by universal decapper before wash)
-Long...

I have now mainly lube issues even at 50 meters, since with last 6" of crusty mess in bore, the patch scrubs against fouling just where the bore starts to get the most of its internal,...

I used the search, I´m accustomed to cold using my 45 ML, but this needs somethink else and it´s out of my experience. Since no hint was mined out of it all, I ask. There are threads specificaly...

This was tried, mastered-and found ineffective due to labort intensity and extensity over all borders. Check Brent Danielson´s page, where he reffers to his experiment some almost numerous years...

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I´m in a hurry seeking for a hint about lube recipe for cookie lube under PP bullet loaded with holy black. Not for target work, but for keeping the fouling in non-crusting state while...

I would sugest to buy only what you can see up close and personal. Some of the dress pattern papers are very uneven as to density of the fiber over given area, some have small holes through and some...

Case: 8x60R Kropatschek, which has .324 inner dia of neck after firing, while have a bit more than twice that at the base, fired with holy black.
3x5 milimeter (about 1/12"x1/5") ceramic media does...

Easily it can be, I simply came across too much of chinese knock-offs off-topics lately.


Back to primers-I just found out that primers that were pushed out of my german mfg Hoerneber 8x60R...

Straight (or +/- straight, like 45-70 etc) case has some crossection area at the base , creating some conditions to ignite the powder. The exit side has almost the same crossection area, through...

Man, with that 1886 I feel now pretty much lika an A**hole. How I could forget... Pretty good Freudian show about what realy occupy one´s mind. Please forgive.

The Trailboss was designed for...

Sorry sir, but that´s bulls*/t. They are made in Czech Republic, from domestic materials period. The "problem", correctly named difference, is a bit thicker and somehow harder brass used for the...

Rule of thumb for unpublished case is to find case which has the most similar base diameter, neck diameter, inner volume and bullet weight and start there-since these parameters are the most crucial...

You don´t list the yardage you was shooting to, so I just assume.
Also, I still have no experience with Gew 88, but since the sights and setting are almost the same for rifles from Mauser 71 to...

If you have flat based bullet (no cup- or dished base), almost certainly yes. Search for RMulhern´s video/photosequence. There´s perfectly showed the "rule of 1/3"-1/3 of the base left exposed, outer...

The black powder is extremely fast burning, but rather a kind of a low-pressure burning propelant. Also, with increased density and pressure, it burns faster and faster to some degree; somehow...