Ok. Here's the pulled bullet:
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Type: Posts; User: Black Jaque Janaviac
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Ok. Here's the pulled bullet:
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
That could be that they're at the top of the pressure. The same loads work well in a Micro9 excepting that I size them to .356" for the Kimber.
The near-perfect nose condition is because they...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Yes I have a separate thermometer I put in the o en. The oven is surprisingly "on" at the 400 dgreesetting.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
It'll have to wait until tomorrow. But I think I can do that.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
In posts #7 & #8 I included a photo of an unfired, sized bullet, plus a smashed one. I see the unfired 95 grainer is obscured by the smashed one. But you can see the 125 grainer pretty good.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Included in the first photos are one unfired bullet and one smash-tested bullet. Bullets from both molds passed the smash test. I put em in a toaster oven at 400 degrees for 25 minutes.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Any chance seating the bullet nearer the rifling would help?
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Oh yeah. Measurements. The 95 grain RF was sized .357 before and after the widest parts of the bullet are ~0.3554"
On the roundball which was unsized (.360) and the widest parts were around 0.3556"
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Maybe this picture shows them better. The paint worn off. That is bare lead, not gray fouling you see.
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Ok. Slugged the bore:
The yellow one is the 356-95-rf.
The red is a.360 roundball.
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You mean to pound a cast bullet through it?
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313066 Sorry, I can't figure out why the picture shows up sideways. It looks noraml on my computer until I upload it.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
The Ruger is an SR1911 Officer style 9mm.
I am using Smoke's Bacon grease. And I used both CFE Pistol & BE-86. I slugged the barrel & it is .3556" diameter at the grooves, bullets are Lee...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Now that the snow has melted I recovered a number of cast bullets I shot earlier. To my dismay they were all stripped to bare lead.
I am wondering if this is a common problem with Ruger barrels? ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Do the bullets mushroom or deform when they hit rubber mulch?
Forum: Cast Boolits
I find it useful to recover spent bullets and read the rifling marks and such, and digging them out of the snow works, but can be difficult to find them. Does anyone have any clever ways to catch...
Ok. That's a satisfactory answer. Since its an IWB "cool factor" isn't worth much
Just got a new leather holster. It seems to fit well and holds the gun even when turned upside down. However it isn't really shaped to the gun. Is that even necessary? Could I soak it and form it...
Yep. Kinda makes you "think" about the soldiers whoa have to advance under covering fire.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I see. I think it will make sense then, to buy a seating die for every bullet that I cast. It would be easier to just swap out a die than to re-adjust the die when I switch bullets, since it is a...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Point taken.
One of the reason's is one gun that I feed these reloads to can be picky about max OAL. So when I set the seating die to something that gun can handle then notice that the OAL of...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I would be thrilled with + - 0.003" variation!
Forum: Reloading Equipment
This may be the answer. Might be a pain to do though, what with it indexing. I suppose I just don't extend the downstroke to the point where it indexes. Then I'd have to be vigilant when a case...
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