Maybe leaving the burnt powder residue in the case neck or dipping in powdered graphite might cut down on the bonding.
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Maybe leaving the burnt powder residue in the case neck or dipping in powdered graphite might cut down on the bonding.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
on pipe up to about 2 1/2" od I've used hand operated tree pruners before. Slices the soft thin walled lead with ease
Forum: Cast Boolits
My JES rebored Marlin runs a little under .376 groove dia. I size to .377 and run mostly 13 and 1400 fps loads. I've been up to 1700 with no leading. Bullet is the NOE 38-250B, I had the mold built...
That was my main mold for my 110+ year old M94 for a lot of years. This on has a liner with a faster than normal twist rate, 1-10. I used 13 gr 4198 for just over 2000 fps in the 24" barrel. My old...
Forum: Factory Rifles
My son has a Kimber Classic select 30-06 with exceptional wood that shoots very well with 150 and 165 Interlocks. Not quite up to the Classic Select 257 Roberts he bought several years ago, but well...
Forum: Leverguns
Part of your problem may be the winchester brass is thick necked. I use Starline 2.082 brass with .377 sized bullets in my JES rebored Marlin and they chamber and shoot great.
Forum: Cast Boolits
My son has one of the Win Low Walls in 22 Hornet from a few years ago, looks like the twist is 1-16". Any chance these would work in the Low Wall?
Forum: Cast Boolits
Looks a lot like my NOE 260283 which is my favorite bullet in my old Marlin 94. Mine has a faster than standard twist liner which may help with this longer bullet style. I use the bullets sized .260...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Good to see you're still at it Shrap. Sorry to say that the only rifle I've got in that age range is my old Marlin '94 25-20. It gets a strict diet of cast at moderate speeds, but the bunny...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
A few years ago I was sitting in a tree stand wearing a faded orange "sock" hat. As light started fading in the evening I happened to look to the south and spotted an owl gliding my direction. About...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
My ol 25-20 has taken a few tree rats, but it's a 94 Marlin with a Williams 5-d receiver sight. Years ago I used a Lyman 257420gc bullet over 13 gr 4198 for better than 2000 fps. Head shots only,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I cast both the 200 swc and 230TC for my 1911. The swc get used in light loads for paper punching and the 230 for more serious work. My barrel has been throated so I can seat them out a bit. Both...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
When I get a new bag of sawdust/wood shavings I pour some used oil in and soak it up. Works real well for smelting range scrap. In my old NRA cast bullet handbook they used this method, and it works.
Don't have the Marlin 27, but in my Marlin 94 I run 9.2gr 4198 under a cast 260283 plain base bullet. Runs just under 1300 fps and is squirrel headshot accurate. Bear in mind that my '94 has a faster...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I use the Lee 255rf over 8 gr Universal. I've pretty much quit buying the double cavity Lees, 6 cavity Lee molds have so far worked much better.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Hadd a guy weld up some 1 1/2" angle iron molds. 3 pieces 7" long along side each other with the same material welded across each end. Weighs just over 2 lbs depending on how well I have leveled them...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Tested 3 powders in my old M51-L JC Higgins 308 with the Noe #315 clone last fall. Alloy was roughly 1.5 Sn, 3 Sb, water quenched out of the PC oven. Went up to 2450 or so with H4350 and Varget, 2250...
6-6.5 with a 255 rnfp in 45 Colt works great in my Ruger
Forum: Hunting with CB's
20 years or so ago I hunted for several years with a Win M94 shooting cast bullets from an old 31141 mold. Alloy was basically ww+tin. I water dropped from a hot mold and tumble lubed with Lee Alox...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I've only found half a dozen 45 colt cases at the small country range I dig lead on, and of course it was Winchester instead of Starline. I did pick up about the same number of Hornady 454 cases on...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Haven't looked at the site, but if they have the 230 TC I'd give it a try. Works great in my Sig 1911 with my home cast from a Lee mold.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Older stuff gets a regular workout here.
Oldest is my family heirloom Marlin M94 25-20, made in 1906. Been re-lined and carries a Williams 5-d receiver sight. Very accurate with cast loads and is...
Forum: Leverguns
Years ago when I worked on the floor in a machine shop I built my own "M" die, used it for a long time with RCBS standard set. Nowadays I use a NOE expander in the Lee Universal expander die instead.
Just started with a Stainless Flattop 45 convertible. Had Doug hone the throats, recut the forcing cone and bent the trigger return spring to lighten the pull somewhat. Still need to take some off...
Still using on a gallon of Ed's Red I made up years ago. Even on my heaviest copper foulers, they get Ed's Red first to get out most of the carbon before I attack the copper. I always hit them with...
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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 |
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