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Celebrating today I found it in the .45 acp box. I guess I did not look closely enough. A little bit of grime and surface rust cleaning and I am good to go. Now to get a good recipe and to the range.

Strange things are afoot. I decide today to start loading for my m1, which I haven’t done in 20 years or so. I was going through my stuff and I have several lbs of IMR4895 and some 4064, a lot of...

Thanks , I may try this but I don't have neatsfoot oil or lanolin right now so I may try the tallow and beeswax mixture for now since I have them.

I just got my sizer in the mail yesterday and I just finished sizing a bunch of them. The sizer/plunger that I got from Lodgewood seems to be working fine. It screws into the loading press that I...

I ordered a .575 Precision Sizing Die with Plunger from Lodgewood Mfg so now I need a recipe to the lube that used beeswax as I have a lot of it and I am going to load at least 50% of them in paper...

They do not fit into the barrel without a lot of force.

I have finally received my pin gauges to measure the bore on my 1861 Pedersoli Springfield Musket and the .577 is the largest one to fit in the bore. I have cast some Minie' balls with my Lyman...

I just cast my first Minies today with and I tried the fit to my gun and they are slightly too large to drop in. They should be able to drop in right?
If so I will need to size them down some I...

I just got a Lyman 1-Cavity Minie Ball Bullet Mold #575213-OS 58 Caliber (575 Diameter) 460 Grain Old Style Mold and will cast some to try out but I haven't measured my bore yet.
I have done a lot...

Well I found out what caused this. I was looking at my dial calipers and noticed that when completely closed the dial was showing 0.04 which meant that I measured my new brass a being too long and...

I have been loading 38-40 for 22 years using a Redding FL die set. I was shooting an original Winchester 1873 with a 24" barrel in that caliber up until a 1 1/2 years ago when I bought a Uberti 73...

I am still dealing with getting a lot of lead buildup in the chamber area of my 38-40 73 Winchesters that I described in thread ...

Thanks for the info.
Mike

I just got a new Pedersoli 1861 Springfield and while I do reenacting also ,my primary hobby for the past 23 years is Cowboy Action Shooting which is using live ammo. I do reloading and have cast...

The loads that I am using are somewhere in the middle of the manufacturer's recommendations. According to there specs they should be around 840 fps. The bullet is 0.401 " and with my CabineTree Lead...

I thought of this but it is happening on both guns and one is old and the other is new.
I have not slugged the bore(s) or chamber(s) and I will have to measure the bullet. I get my bullets from a...

I have been shooting my original 73 Winchester at CAS matches for 20 years and in the past 7 years I noticed that I was getting a lot of lead buildup in the chamber all along the length of the brass....

I just got a RCBS die for the 6.65 Arg and it seems to do the trick. Now my chamber easily.

Excuse my ignorance but what is CIP?

One case worked in the Lyman Die but the case was not going al of the way into it. The next case got stuck in the die and when I tried to lower the ram the case rim sheared off. I had to dig the case...

A friend gave me some loads for my 91 Arg for a Cowboy Action Shoot that shot right to the point of aim (metal plate @ 80 yrds) so I ordered some of the same 180 grn .312 lead gas check bullets from...

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I recieved the Lyman die set that I ordered in 7.65 Argentine and tried a case with it after using the RCBS case forming/trim die and trimming the case. I loaded the brass with a bullet...

I am looking at getting a outside case turning tool. I haven't found a reamer for this size. I am assuming that I can achieve the same results by turning the outside.

The bullets are now seating straight as I have used the decapper-expander and have adjusted the seating die to crimp enough in the crimp groove but the rounds are just a little tight when...

I tried taking out the expander-decapper from the die and then put a 0.014" feeler gauge into the bottom of the shell holder and ran the case up again in the die after annealing it and the empty...