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I don't want to beat this into the ground, but I think most people underestimate the energy in a primer. I've never purposely or accidently fired a "primer only" squib in any firearm including a 55gr...

I do believe the talk about 24gr of H335 behind 110 grains of projectiles is a red herring. I don't care if the stuck in the bore item is 10gr or 55gr, once you fire the new bullet into anything that...

You're definitely asking for trouble, speaking from experience. If you press a bullet into the new die that is the same size or possibly even slightly bigger than the inside diameter of the new point...

With this lube, I can shoot cast boolits without a gas check 3000 fps at 1/2 MOA accuracy; with ZERO leading. The ZERO leading is my favorite fiction peddled around here.

I bought alot of that Turk ammo back in the day. I pulled the projos on all of it and reloaded it back with 40 grains to tame it. They shot great at that level. I remember paying J & G in Prescott AZ...

FYI, when you consider commonly known engineering principles, catastrophic failure is almost always a result of more than one factor.

Further proof that swaging dies should be tempered to make them less brittle. The dies I'm making are tempered back to Rc30's and Rc40's, and are PLENTY hard to use with brass, copper, and lead...

5.7 brass is very difficult to find around my area. People that say that it's easily available are peddling fiction IMHO. I've been on the lookout for it (reasonable for swaging) for 5+ years and no...

Let's do some math: 60 feet for $180. 60 x 12=720 inches. If the jackets are roughly 1 inch long for an average weight 30 cal bullet, that's 720 jackets per roll of tubing. $180 dollars divided by...

Seppos, if your jackets are .7645 long and longer, you are stretching the cases by having a punch that is too fat in diameter. A normal length for derimmed .22lr brass is .680 to .690 depending on...

Wrong. "Full length sizing" is not the critical issue in keeping the bullet in place on a bottle neck cartridge. It is neck tension. As long as the sizer being used, whether it's a full length sizer...

Yes, the Federals are two different weights and can cause some issues. I found that the Federals from the Wally World 550 packs that I stocked up on are the heavier, thicker ones. They generally...

That's one of the neat things about this. I have many dies that started out to be one size and ended up a bigger caliber.

Once you start .223 swaging the real addiction starts. Every time you go to a range you'll be looking at all the free jackets lying around and thinking-----must pick them all up, they're freeeeee!

Looks dang good to me. I seem to recall you made 30 cal dies also, that you were swaging some really nice bullets from too. I personally think the .223 bullets are the best and easiest to make with...

And you completely missed his original posts where he was asking very basic questions on metal working. It was quite evident that he just got started and within a week he's already talking about...

Hey bucko, don't be jumpin on my case for explaining the realities of this swaging stuff. I've been around this for a long time and I've been one of the ones that encourages people to make their own...

For anyone under the illusion that listening to "self proclaimed experts" on a forum like this is a good idea because they're on the site all day, every day; read this thread and decide for yourself....

When the guy says it about 500 times like a broken record including saying that Unique is horrible powder about as many times, it kinda makes ya wonder; doesn't it?

Thanks, dragon. As I recall Maxam is big in the shotgun shell arena. I never needed to go looking for new pistol powders as I stocked up on Bullseye and Unique before the madness and didn't need to...

Well, I'm sorry to say that it's official as everyone has heard by now. There's no way I could ever listen to her entire speech the other night, but I found this on youtube:

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Relabled from what powder and manufacturer?

One other thing on the heavier bullets: Not only have I found that they shoot better as far as consistent groups go, I get better impact on the target. I shoot a lot of steel and you can tell the...

Besides the poor customer service, who is actually making the powder? Is it being made with the type of care and expertise that the large trusted companies that have been producing powder for decades...

You might want to try going heavier on the bullet weight, if you aren't already. I've been making bullets from .22 brass for about 15 years. Most of that time I was making lighter bullets in the 57...