http://www.castpics.net/subsite2/ClassicWorks/CastBullets-s.pdf which is Harrisons first articles on cast bullets in AR caused my internet explorer to shut down. I use MS Windows with aol and VIPRE...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
http://www.castpics.net/subsite2/ClassicWorks/CastBullets-s.pdf which is Harrisons first articles on cast bullets in AR caused my internet explorer to shut down. I use MS Windows with aol and VIPRE...
Forum: Our Town
I remember mid to late 60s gun prices. Pistols were still allowed to be listed in classified ads in Seattle area. I saw a "Red 9 broomhandle"
that the owner wanted $45 for. I wanted it but just...
Forum: Cast Boolits
http://www.castpics.net/subsite2/ClassicWorks/Hatchers%20Notebook.pdf gave me problems last night and woiuldn't download but did today although I get an already in use message when I try to access....
Forum: Cast Boolits
That powder hazmat fee is atrocious!
I did score 8 pounds of 4759 from GRAF a few months ago, cost me $180 and since I hadn't seen any useful powder locally for months
I was ok with paying it. I'm...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I was looking for group purchase information and lucked onto the files of old shooting and reloading books as well as the classic cast bullet posts. Was pleased to find the CE Harris posts on...
Forum: Casting Equipment
About 30 years ago, to my intense shame and frustration, I managed to overtightened the pressure plug on my Lyman Lube and sizer which ruined the screw. No problem I thought as I dug out my tap and...
Forum: Special Projects
As a chem major (and dropout) fifty YA, my feculent 68 YO memory is that the fulminates were he first priming compounds. M recollection is that mercury fulminate is made mixing nitric acid with...
Thanks for responses and suggestions so far.
Given that manufacturers tend to stay with what they are tooled up for until they are forced to change,
I could see the improved LLA not causing changes...
Just wondering how important it have bullet lube rooves in a cast bullet if you are using the improved LLA+JPW recipes.
FTM do you needthe tumble lube "knurling" on the tumblelube bullets?
I have...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Keeping spare decapping pins is important. I broke one on my Lyman Carbide 357 die and I couldn't find anyone in the Tacoma area who had them for sale. Finally a fellow cast bullet guy on ther CB-L...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I usually get my targets done on 8.5x11 paper at a COSTCO business center, seems like last ones were just a couple cents each. I use them on target frames that have a backing so they hold up well...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Seems to me I bought a small crockpot (1 pint or 1 quart?) at Walmart on Black Friday for $4 to use for making lubes which I haven't done yet although I expect to try the 45/45/10 recipe soon. BTW I...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I need loading dats for both cartridges. I have a suitable Lyman 11mm Mannlicher mould bought from GAR when they were going out of business as well as a supply of nominal 0.457 rifle caliber cast...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Back in the '60s I used a friend,s 7.7x58 RCBS file trim die to make that round from 30-06 GI
range pickup brass. I also found that 8x57 brass, often from Canada back then, would fireform to 77.7x58...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
I too have some Alox 606-55.
I have read sticky's directions for making 45/45/10 alox/JPW/mineral spirits mix.
What proportions would I use with the 606-55 to get same 45/45/10 mix.
Any special...
Forum: Group Buy Archives
This is a good bullet and it's very useful when you can cast six at a time. I got in on one of these special buys a few years ago after a posting on the
CB-L caught my eye. I trust you all know that...
Forum: Group Buy Archives
See if any of your shooting buddies have a Curios and Relics Federal Firearms License. "Crufflers" can send Lee an original signatured copy of their C&R FFL and then get dealer prices from Lee. Lee...
Forum: Group Buy Archives
Please include me in this deal.
Lawrence J. Murray
1839 Franklin Street
Shelton, WA 98584-9135
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |