As already mentioned once, sounds to me like your crimp (roll or taper crimping?) is not removing all the flare.....
Measure at the case mouth of loaded round, I like .423" and/or resize a case,...
Type: Posts; User: kevmc
Forum: Cast Boolits
As already mentioned once, sounds to me like your crimp (roll or taper crimping?) is not removing all the flare.....
Measure at the case mouth of loaded round, I like .423" and/or resize a case,...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
If the base of your boolits are not being sized (cast slightly undersize), they can act like a bevel base and allow lube under boolit.
If it happens with some, but not all, check sized dia. of those...
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Good looking Tin!!
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Provided tracking # right away!!
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Forum: Muzzleloading.
For round balls.....1.5 times caliber...so 1.5 X 45 = 67.5
70 gr fffg is what I use for my .45 TC Hawken (built from kit in 1974)
For Maxiballs, add 5 grs. powder for every 25 grs weight more...
Forum: Cast Boolits
:popcorn:
Starting to load cast for my .45 also/////
"*Focal distance: 3CM-6cm "
3cm = ~1.1" .........would it focus with mirror inside bore??
Anyone tried 1 of these?
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Awesome, thank you so much!!
See there's a mold listed as new/old stock on ebay..........
Very nice groups now......1" @ 50 yds with iron sights,,,,
using 60 gr/fff and getting about 1400 fps.
With a .320 Meplat, 302 grs. @ 1400 fps......should be very good deer medicine!!
beagled the mold, now dropping .446 X .450.....(302 grs.)
Heat cycled the mold some more after adjusting the pins, seems to be holding the alignment pins steady now, (after about 60 boolits and Very...
I've never Paper Patched before........
Might be time to try it>>>>>
Well Lee got some of my money again.....shouldn't have bothered.
450-294 imp Minne......
drops at .445-.446, fall right thru the bbl of my TC .45 Hawken, and back out when I turn it over!!!
Cav....
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Yep, I hunt with a XP100 in 7BR! Friends with .243 win......
Interesting!!
Thanks for the reply....
Anyone know if the Lee MOLD 450-294-M is .450 at all bands?
What the.,,,,.Brownells has 'em for $22.49, I'll get one to try!!
For Hunting deer......
Thinking of a better maxiball, the nose of these don't thrill me!!
Kind of like using a RN in a handgun, there are better designs.
I would like more of a WFN/LFN design...
Forum: Group Buy Archives
I'd like to get one of these molds.....
Swede Nelson (NOE) doesn't currently have them in stock......
I posted on his forum in the " molds you'd like to see run" section....
Think we need 5 to...
Try Trail Boss powder....
Just fill the case to where the bullet base will be, take 70% of that and you have a start load from little handgun up through big **** rifle loads.
NO compressed...
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25:1
load backward in .44 spl..........
?????
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Just finished stuffing myself with this!!!!
AWESOME!!!
Maybe the best chicken I've had in awhile!
Added some cornstarch to the pan drippings for sauce, it's a must do!
Also made the Fried...
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