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Nice looking boolit and color. What color is that? Thanks!

BTW, I have a box of the Factory Remington 86gr .25-20 I would be happy to sell for $150 with "free shipping". [smilie=1::grin:

$600 for only 200 cartridges? Holy cow, you could have reloaded for two lifetimes on that much money. I load 50 rounds for only $2.25, so with a little math, I can load 13,333 cartridges for the...

Your welcome! Glad to show the process and hopefully inspire some other people to try the .25-20 as it is a pretty neat cartridge.

I really like my Marlin 1894 .25-20. As others have said, you can form cases from Starline .32-20. I like to have a quiet "critter gitter" load for around the homestead and have been loading it with...

Thanks for the replies. I have also been eyeballing the MP 45 Ruger only PB HP. I like the look of this one as well but thinking the first one I posted maybe better for use in the lever guns. What do...

Thanks guys.

Robs- Do you have any range report or loads that worked well with this bullet. I like shooting Unique, H110, 2400 in my .45 Colt. I also have a .454 Casull levergun it might get used...

Loaded these up a few days ago. Just a 250gr plinker load for .45 Colt. I posted this on another forum thus the Tops Tracker.
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I make plenty if my own sawdust in my shop, but never thought to use it as flux. Always just used paraffin. What does the sawdust do better or different.?

I am looking at the MP 454-640 HP PB bullet mold. I have not casted for a few years, and want to try a longer nose design for both Blackhawks and M92 & M94 lever guns in .45 Colt

Seems like the...

I have Lyman showing a Ruger & TC Only load for the #454190 250gr with 11.5 gr as MAX load with a velocity of 1185 out of 10" TC.

That data is from 2000 ish. Much higher then you see today. I have...

I did not see this recipe so I am posting it. I have had good luck with this lube in pistols but have only used it in cooler temps so I do not know if it would get too sticky in the hot weather.
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Thanks for the time creating this calculator and sharing it with us.

However I can not get it to output the right numbers. They seem a bit off. Maybe I am doing something wrong.

For instance it...

I say that water getting into the pot while the lead is molten can lead to an eruption. I say this because it happened to me this summer when I was casting bullets. I was being impatient and hastily...

I have well over half a ton of 99.5% + pure lead (Radiation shielding lead sheets). Closer to a ton. I need to work on getting tin though for hardening it. I think I should be good for a few years....

Very Cool. Thanks for posting. I will have to spend a few evening watching all the videos. Great stuff and thanks for putting forth the effort to share with us.

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Thanks for the replies. The reason I was thinking of using Pyrodex P (FFFg equivalent) is that it is all I have on the powder shelf right now and I do not have the money to buy more at the moment. ...

Great. I will be set for a few lifetimes then.

I was looking to find a load for my .50cal Hawkins that I haven't shot in over ten years. I couldn't remember what I had used in the past so I pulled out my old second addition of the Black Powder...

Cool. I have a lot of pure lead that I took out of a cath lab a few years back when we did a remodel. Does the pure lead work fine in a muzzleloader?

Btw. Have you guys ever heard of a smoothbore Jaeger? Did they ever make such a thing? Ahh I do not know what to do. I guess that is OK though since I will probably have a few years more to think...

Hey thanks for the advise. Sand cast parts would not be a big deal to me. Finishing brass is easy enough. I will check into the stock drawing at Track and see if they have a Jaeger or something to...

Hehe. Yeah I know that is kind of blasphemous talk. I have a dualsport, and two old street bikes though. One of which has the engine torn down in the rebuild stage. With little kids in the...

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking of pulling out my Hawkins rifle in .50 and trying to find time to shoot it in the next week or so. I wish that it was a flinter, because it would be more...

Cool. That would be 2 grains heavier than my math, but I bet that is because I based a volumetric grain off of the old formula of one volumetric grain of BP being = to a 1 grain of water by volume. ...