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GONRA has "turned over" a set of blocks in a 4 jaw lathe chuck,
used a boring bar(s) to cut another cavity.....
Verks Just Fine! !!

GONRA did same same thing as Sasquatch-1 for decades.
Wear one out? Just find another! !!!
Have Phun! !!

El Cheepo GONRA has been using Range Brass forever....
Just do NOT use annealed (SOOOOOOOFT) "Burn Barrel" range brass!! !
Yikes !!

GONRA sez - best to hava Harbor Freight Arbor Press For Dangerous swaging projects.
Make yer own dies on yer Harbor Freight Screw Cutting (hasa leadscrew) metal lathe....
THINK - be careful......

Based on GONRA's experience (GOOD ! !!) with olde Dave Corbin
get a Corbin CSP-2 MegaMite HAND PRESS and blast away....

If New Corbin does NOT offer the Corbin CSP-2 MegaMite HAND PRESS...

GONRA sez - brassrat's primer can is REALLY olde!
SHOULD have lottsa collector value..... !!!

targetshootr's loading area looks just like GONRA's younger Son's in our basement! !!
GONRA's is worse.....

Somewhere in GONRA's Junque Pyle
is a loose leaf folder of WW II era IMR 4831 data,
lot nrs, charge wt. etc. for is original application:
20mm Oerlikon auto cannon.

GONRA used 94 grain .358 inch diameter Lyman IDEAL U358242 cast boolits
for all sorts of locked breech .380 ACP loads/pistols.....
Then developed (with lottsa help from Corbin! !!)
swaged ~40...

GONRA only loads range pickup brass for semiautos, but, for wot it's worth, here goes:

For 9mm Luger, older RCBS dies hava small mouth entrance radius.
These do a nice "back to factory...

GONRA sez - its like screwing in a spark plug -
Use FINGERS first to get started, then yer all set to finishup!!!

GONRA sez these are Collector Items.
Pleeeeeze don't "Pop 'em off" just for the hell of it.....

GONRA as similar memories (?) to the various "Wilkes holy gas check stories" above.
Believe ready-to-go "holy gas checks" were sold.....
May have seen some ata Gun Show (remember those?) or got...

As previously, GONRA sez - keep Wife, 3 kids, 2 cats & hamster off into SLUMBER LAND whilst reloading.! !!

GONRA sez - just make SURE "range pickup brass" hasn't gone thru the burn barrel !!

GONRA reminds ya'll - a "stuck bullet" in any blowback semiauto - KABOOM! !!
WATCHOUT! !!

GONRA's justa Collector/Tinkerer.
Used WW 231 for all (normal) auto pistols, aged collector items etc.
(Developed "loads to function" - NOT beat up the pistol !!)
BUT -Used Blue Dot for .44...

GONRA sez - watch for COPPER .22 RF cases.
When they show up, are really easy to dehead, etc.

GONRA sez the bullets pictured could be made on an
olde CH Swag-O-Matic press with home made dies.

Bazoo sez: "Wow, I had no idea making smokeless powder was within the realm of the home chemist. "
GONRA sez - it really ISN'T. Watchout! !!

Practical applications involve much larger...

GONRA sez listen to dverna!
Loooong string!!

EVENTUALLY - GONRA miked 'em all, stored in small labeled envelopes in a drawer.....

GONRA sez - Reground / Rehardened Allen wrenches make small boring bars......

Right after WW II Suburban Chicago's GONRA's Dad built a Rabbit Trap.
Gave Rabbits to our Plattdeutsch German Farmer neighbors for yummy hasenpfeffer......

Large freezers for Victory Garden...

Over the decades GONRA has found one should hava variety
of "bullet pullers" to satisfy the particular project needs ......