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Just a quickie - I was thinking that mixing a little bit of zinc (from those dastardly zinc wheel weights) into the lead (in small enough quantities as not to inhibit the dripping of the lead) would...

I know exactly what you are talking about. Those have the headstamp "ammoload". What is weird is that the powder dosent actually seem to sit any higher in the case. Other than the bizzar shelf and...

I do have .38 spl dies to so I can use that method as well. However I don't have a factory crimp die to correct it. One thig I have noticed is If the case is flared too much it does not go smoothly...

Tazman... Great advice. I didn't really think about that but it is true that the die is probably putig a slight crimp on the brass, thus shaving my bullet. Ill back it out some.

Interesting to hear. I have noticed that the seating die (lee) forces the flaired case back to its original dimentions once the bullet is about 1/2 way seated and the sharp edge of the brass scrapes...

I'm sure other people do this and I think I've seen threads on it before, but was wondering if anyone has the same problems as me and sorts the brass they pick up @ the range. Recently, because of...

I did the same thing with unique and WSF. Ouch. It's really annoying though because I dumped such a small amount of unique in my 1lb jar of wsf and because the two are so similar in burn rate. I...

I shot my first batch yesterday as well. All I have to say is wow!!! I was using a really crappy alloy that was almost pure Pb and was really worried about bad accuracy and a barrel streaked with...

Lee 300-452-rf GC and lee 158-358-swc GC. These are my favorite because they are the only boolits I can use undersized with any mystery lead/ hardness I can find (i.e. old dive weights) and get zero...

I go to nautical flee markets ( I live in florida) and buy as many five weights as I can. I only purchase them if I can get em for .50 cents/lb or less. I usually end up with 100 lbs +. Only problem...

I was once switching Unique out of my lee powder measure and unintentionally poured it into a 1lb. Jar of WSF. Still have that jar, and cringe when I look at the powder and see little flakes among...

I bought my first rifle when I was 13, a surplus swiss k31. I also go some of the accessories for it, including the brass barrel cap. We were at the range and I was about to fire my new gun, trying...

I have a cimarron 1892. 12.5 grains blue dot and seated in top groove (deeper) is a great relatively moderate accurate shooting load. Feeds like a champ. For a more powerful load I'd go with 2400 or...

I would seat the boolit just deep enough to clear the rifling on your pistol. I bought that mold for my cz75 and ended up not being able to use it because I had to seat the boolit too deap (less than...

My rule of thumb when developing a new load for cast boolits is to use powders on the slower-slowest burn rate that gives acceptable results with the particular load. The main reason for this is that...

Just a slightly different opinion; I find that Blue Dot can do pretty much anything that Unique can for my applications but is cleaner burning and offers slightly higher performance (being just...

Sorry about the confusion. I loaded the lee 358-125-rf to .980, not the .356 tl. Thanks for the info

Thanks for your input. The lee TL boolits I have are .357 diameter, so hopefully they will work well. I just hope they don't cause the same lead scraping effect.

Just received my new CZ75 B Stainless. Woo hoo! What a beautiful gun.

So, I want to shoot cast out of this baby just like with my other pistols. Now to develop a load. This is interesting......

I second the notion of getting an older rossi 92 in 45 colt. The 1892 action is very strong and you can load up some pretty hot rounds if you want to. Also, with some use, the action will smooth out...

You can get 99.95 sulfur powder in 10 lb. bags from fertilizer stores online. It is also not very expensive, I forget exactly how much it costs though. I use it as an ingredient in home made black...

What powder and charge are you guys using. I have found that WSF is a great 9mm powder, burning just slightly faster than unique, but not as snappy and dirty as 231. Perfect for those 125s, however,...

I think that I finally found the right boolit for my CZ 75 b. Other bullets that I have tried, including the lee 124 TL leaded badly, likely do to their being too small. The lee 125 casts at .358...

Thanks for the posts. The AA load suggested by FullTang sounds like a keeper. I'll try it and hopefully post results soon.

How about 21 grains of Red Dot with standard CCI209