Hi All
Somebody just gave me a couple hundred pounds of mixed lead, some wheel weights, some fishing sinkers, a few ingots, and a pretty good bundle of three sided stuff looks like solder.
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Hi All
Somebody just gave me a couple hundred pounds of mixed lead, some wheel weights, some fishing sinkers, a few ingots, and a pretty good bundle of three sided stuff looks like solder.
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Forum: Gas Checks
Thanx you guys
These push on kinda easy and sit straight, but seem to be expanded a bit.
They for sure aren't seated properly.
I will be slugging the bore on this old rifle and getting the right...
Forum: Gas Checks
Thanks guys!
Yes the book is a must. If they work it won't be long before I use up this half tuna can of bullets and need to make more.
Need to slug the bore, I have not done that, and I think Gary...
Forum: Gas Checks
Thanx! That's what I figured. I have no sizing dies, and these will for sure seat the base just below the neck.
Pressed on as pushed on with your finger, I can do that, then swaged with the die?
I...
Forum: Gas Checks
Hi all
I am new to the cast boolit thing. Have only dabbled in it, but want to get deeper.
First project is to load for my 1898 Springfield, 30-40.
I have on hand, left to me by a passed friend...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Hi all
Just got a Lee 220 volt pot 'cause that's what you can get now.How did you guys wire your's up.
The wires are typical Euro, brown, blue and Gr/yellow.
I see the brown and blue going to the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hi all
I have read in these pages that a suitable gas check may be made from a... soda can.
I don't know, but I've been told.
Imagine the smile when, while going through some old cast bullets...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Bill, Tim and MT Gianni
Thanx for the replies. They are in fact Flat nose and there is evidence in this box that 30-30 was one of the things he was in to. They consistantly are just under 190 with...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hi All
Was given a box of goodies the other day, "you do guns, maybe you can do something with this old stuff".
Among other things, there is a bunch of these 180 grain rifle bullets, some checked,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
72786 As most of us that are known by family and friends to have the gun habit, I got a "maybe you can do something...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Hi all
New to the forum, a C&R collector, and am putting the stuff together to start casting for my .45,.357 and the .38 super for now. Maybe the rifles later, I have an 1898 Springfield (Krag) and...
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 |