Had my first stroke 23 years ago. It affected my left side. With a lot of therapy and hard work, I was back to shooting IPSC with in six months. My first exercise prop at home was a loaded Para P-13...
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Had my first stroke 23 years ago. It affected my left side. With a lot of therapy and hard work, I was back to shooting IPSC with in six months. My first exercise prop at home was a loaded Para P-13...
I drilled and tapped several of my four cavity Lyman molds to be able to adjust the tension on the rear of the sprue plate. Same size as the front right set screw. 6-32 ? Sorry, it's been awhile.
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Mother load? Three thousand pounds of machine weights in sixty pound ingots. Free!
A thousand pounds of monotype at $.25/pound and a $20.00 surcharge for delivering to my shop door. :lol::bigsmyl2:
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Looking forward to taking my sixteen year old grandson to the range to try out his Christmas/birthday (both in December) present. An FN made Mk. 2 Browning Hi-Power. Of course, he can't take...
Accurate # 5 works well in the 9mm. I tried some last fall as I was running short of BlueDot. Tested loads in several 9mm pistols. XDs 9mm 5.25, S&W M&P, Tanfoglio TZ75 Series 88, and a PF9. Boolit...
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BlueDot has been my "go to" powder for 9mm and 38 Super since the early 80's.
The boolit I use is the H&G # 275, 09-125-SWCBB sized .357 over a mid load of BD. Works well in S&W M&P, BHP, XDm 09...
Lee tools got me into casting. I fed my IPSC needs for two years with a pair of Lee two cavity moulds and the ten pound lead pot. Lee allows a cash strapped youngster with two young daughters and a...
:eek: Do not! I repeat "DO NOT" let a dremmel and a wire brush within three feet of your moulds!
I ruined a four cavity Saeco 230 grain RN 45 mould I had modified to drop 200 grain boolits. I was...
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I have used cast iron muffin pans for over twenty five years for smelting. I had two to start with, but broke one trying to dump the ingots. I then used a Dremmel to grind the cavities smooth. I...
Not only do I prefer four cavity moulds, I like to buy them in pairs at the same time to get a matched set. My last eight pairs of Lyman four cavity moulds were within +/- one grain for all eight...
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Yup! I do 9mm for less than $5.00 per hundred using my H&G #275 09-125-SWCBB. 40 S&W runs the same using a couple recut Lyman four cavity 9mm moulds that produce a 40-145-TCPB.
I still have a ton...
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I use a lead "muffin" ingot for my impact bullet puller. And I have used a shell holder to pull a batch of 45 Colt that were loaded with a range of boolits.
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I've passed most of my two cavity molds on to a young man I have been mentoring. Also a couple four cavity NEI molds I haven't used in a couple decades. Also a 10 pound Lee pot and a Star sizer with...
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Yup! Time to cast. Scored a Saeco four cavity #377 09-122-TCBB for a good price. I suspect it will drop closer to 125 grains as my two Saeco 09-122-RNBB both drop 125 grains with the alloy I use for...
My normal 9mm load is the H&G #275 over a medium load of Blue dot. Since I'm low on BlueDot right now I decided to try Accurate #7 and ended up with a compressed load that actually deformed the nose...
BlueDot is my favorite powder for 380, 9mm and 38 Super. Looking for at least five pounds right now!
I'm looking for BlueDot, my favorite 9mm and 38 super powder. I tried using Accurate #7. A mid load is 8.0 grains and requires so much compression that the H&G #275 125-SWCBB nose is turned into a...
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I Just had a canine fall out! $600.00 root canal, $780.00 crown. Came out while chewing a bite of Tuna sandwich!
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Hang in there and do what you can for enjoyment. I had a stroke, then bypass surgery, then Veinal thrombosis in both legs, then a second stroke. I'm still casting, loading and shooting. Not as much...
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I use the large plastic Coffee cans for brass and loaded round storage. I transfer loaded rounds to 100 round ammo boxes as needed. I keep my cast and lube sized boolits in cardboard white mailers...
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I like to load in two thousand round batches for my pistol rounds. 9mm, 38 Super, 40 S&W and 45 ACP. When I get down to five hundred rounds, I start a new batch of two thousand. These are mainly...
I have faced a boat load of Lyman four cavity molds. Mostly to match the molds boolit weight. I had a hand casting business for over twenty years and cast with multiple molds for production. I...
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I spent a couple days looking for the compression spring assemblies of a couple Star Lubesizers. Finally looked down inside and there they were!
I hadn't used them for about twenty years as I have...
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I read somewhere that all cast boolits have a void. I have never recovered boolits with voids that large tho.
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Could be, they sure look the same as my Saeco mold handles
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 |