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6 cavity molds cast so fast, and powder coating (or tumble lubing) is so easy, I see no reason to ever stop. I can make them fast enough that the cost savings is significant.

For muzzle loaders,...

I got a real shock the other day - average lifespan of an American male is now 92. Last I looked it was 78.

Where did the 80's go? I miss the 80's

I started casting last year at 67.

You can get just the shoulder pad part of a shooting jacket off Amazon. Straps on like a shoulder holster. I have a CVA Scout in 45-70 and it does not weigh much. Firing it with full power black...

I got some 473AA From Shady Grady. Its $15 a pound and comparable to WSF. It probably off a bit so drop the load a grain and work back up - but its available and cheap.

Its possible in my case it was not dry enough to begin with. Sealed containers keep the moisture IN as well....

I left the most recent batch of starch powder in the dehydrator a whole extra day...

I found a place that makes re-usable silica gel packs. News to me that this even existed, apparently you pop them in a microwave on defrost for about 10 minutes and it steams all the collected...

I clearly did something wrong, there is no other explanation for the results being this different.

In another unexplained observation, the manganese powder, and my starch powder, are remaining...

I got 10 Lb of WC680 from Shady Grady for $150 (plus shipping) WC680 = Alliant 1680

At 32 grains per round, I can load 2,200 round of 45-70 with it. Maybe more, I'm going to start out with...

CVA says 40K max pressure, same as Marlin. This works for me as I scored a bunch of Accurate 1680 powder - for which there is no 45-70 load data I can find. I CAN find load data for 450 Bushmaster,...

I had a box of Starch with no other use for it, so now I have a couple of pounds of starch powder. I put the "dough" into a cupcake pan, using actual paper cupcake liners (cost 1 cent each). I put...

My dehydrator came off Amazon for $26 It has layers of plastic pans with slots in them and the heated air blows up through it all. OK for pucks but no way to put loose powder in it. So I leave the...

"Shady Grady" more than fits. I received 30 Lb of powder in six plastic disposable milk jugs in a smashed deteriorating cardboard box with no hazmat markings on it at all. Someone else got powder...

For the St. Valentines day Massacre they rubbed all of the bullets for the Thompsons with garlic. Supposedly it guaranteed blood poisoning if you didn't die from being shot a dozen times.

I have cooked a variety of these formulas in the past couple of months. Only question I have here is how you are putting it back in the dehydrator after it is ground up.

All it would really take is a different puck die. It would even eliminate leftovers - just take all of your fines at the end of a BP session and make pellets just like you would make pucks - and...

Maybe its just me or I made a bad batch, but the manganese powder isn't working for me.

In my .45 inline it failed to ignite multiple times - then finally did, moving the ball about 4" down the...

I just checked out about a dozen online bullet sellers. Did not expect to find so many.

Had not heard of Everglades - but they not only have hollow based wadcutters, but plated ones. My 1858...

Winchester WC-680 = This one was easy, the same thing is currently marketed as Accurate 1680

Winchester WC-452 = Red Dot? SASS shooters are loading 148gr wadcutters with 3 grains of this. With...

I went to the bottom of the Sannadex rabbit hole, at least the best anyone can researching 10-15 year old information from South Africa. Lets just say we should forget about it.

So starch and Sugar are essentially interchangeable in these compositions?

I've seen Sannadex formulas using Nitrate, and ones using Chlorate. These are every different chemicals, someone is...

Potassium Chlorate and Sulfur not only explode but are very friction sensitive. Its why H48 even works.

But you can't make Gunpowder that way. They learned that as far back as 1794.

I still...

H48 is Antimony Sulfate, Sulfur and Potassium Chlorate. It also explodes, not burns. There is very little of it in a primer or cap.

It was by TABLESPOON. Site I got it from was in Zimbabwe. I assumed it was Potassium Nitrate but it turned out to actually be Potassium Chlorate.

I just got a whole lot of Potassium Perchlorate,...

I found there actually is a commercial formula for Starch powder that was used extensively in South Africa. "Sannadex" is a 9/8/2 mix of Chlorate, Sugar and Oxide (Iron). Not experimental, it was...

Follow "Times Gone Tech" on YouTube. He is working on a way to mix all of the components together so you can put it wet into the cap. No mess and maybe 4 times faster. At the moment he is trying...