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I've had a woman in each of my last 2 reloading classes. One is brand new to reloading, the other's husband already reloads and she is using his equipment on her own now.

Just did a quick check on Lee's website, as I suspected there are no gas check molds listed. Gas checks crimp onto a reduced diameter base of the bullet. All the Lee tumble lube molds I am aware of...

You can speed up the melt significantly by not emptying the pot with each batch. I leave about 4 inches in the bottom of the pot, add more range scrap in trowel size bunches and stir a bit, it will...

The earlier editions of the ABC'S of Reloading that were written by Dean Grennel (RIP Dean) have some really good info on bullet casting in addition to all the great info on reloading in general....

JRW, is that a Brittany pup in your avatar? I've had several thu my life, they are incredible dogs!

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I have the Star manual on PDF if anyone want it drop me an email and I'll send it along

I agree with imashooter, spend the 25.00 for a cast iron dutch oven, it's less than 1% of what the medical bills will be if that bowl tips over on your leg!

Nice looking clean ingots, now your...

I smelt recovered range lead from our indoor range all the time. The biggest hassle I have is the rubber media from the backstop (groung tires) mixing and and smoking like an SOB. We allow any...

Sorry copdills, this is a family site ;>)

Housedad, get your self one of these: http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpage.exe/showproduct?saleitemid=847836
I sort about 3 or 4 55 gal barrels a year from our club, this product is a godsend! Run...

I bought a very basic (ie cheap, like me) turkey fryer from Dicks and after an hour of waiting for it to melt the first layer of wheel weights I gave up. I bought another at Kmart on sale, got it...

I use new boxes from Uline ( http://www.uline.com/ ) I order them by the 100 (the 4X4X4 boxes I lke are only .16 ea), they hold 4-500 depending on the size. I fill em up just like the cast boolits...

Melt birshot outdoors only, most has a fair amount of arsenic in it!

I've been using the carnuba lube from White Label, works great and at $1.60 a stick in a re-saleable tube or $1.35 in a plastic bag, you can't beat the price.
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Hey mtgrs737, I see you use a rubber band to hold the handle up, I use a bungee. Should we tell the new users of Stars why we do this or let them find out for themselves (Ouch, another forehead ding!)

I use both the heater (needed for the hard lubes I like to use) and the air cylinder (increases your cyclic rate and makes adding lube much quicker). I also have the shovel handle (GREAT addition)...

Put them on a wire rack over a tray and put them in a WARM, not hot, oven and melt the lube out into the lower pan.

Ya just never know where the next score will come from. I was sitting at the lunch counter with a friend and we were talking about meltin some range lead and a lady sitting there says she couldn't...

From time to time I have trouble accessing sites that I know are working. Sometimes I can get on at work and not at home and vice versa. Sooner or later they all work again. Seems to be a problem...

We're still experimenting. Tried various size screens, mixed results. It seperated out all the bigger rubber pieces. A cyclonic seperator work great but the cost is huge! Plain water gave the same...

I use a lot of range lead, I "smelted" almost 1000 lbs last weekend. Our backstop uses ground tires as a media and is a PITA to seperate out but is worth it compared to the price of lead these days....

My Lee pot set on between 5 and 6 gives a pretty consistent 650-700 degrees. If I set it between 7 and 8 which I sometimes do to get a melt started and then forget to turn it back down, gets the mix...

Isn't running without a regulator dangerous? I thought the regulator also contained some sort of anti-reversion valve (I could be wrong). I found this adjustable regulator. Seems like most turkey...

Nice group! This hobby is the most fun you can have with your pants on!

One question. What did you use for an aiming point?

I'm in for one, thanks for your efforts!