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Almar;
I use 9mm FMJ bullets. Not because they're better than .45's but because I bought them on sale, and they were cheaper. They work great.
Graysmoke
Sounds like you solved the problem. Good...

2TM101;
I just looked up your 40mm 'dab press' and actually a 2" die is 50.8 mm. That's almost 11 mm larger than your die. And that drops the required total poundage from 11,000 psi, for 2"; down...

Ham;
Thanks very much. I'm going to study on this a bit. I wasn't looking back near far enough, for your post. My how time flies, right? Or, my how time's fun, when your having flies.

HamGunner;
That is a good report on the TP. And, was very similar to my results.
I hate to ask you to do this, but last week or so, when I shot my pistol, I went back to see if I could find your...

henryinpanama;
There's nothing wrong with keeping it simple. Screened Sassafras powder yielded my highest velocities per weight, since the beginning. And, it was one of the very first powders I...

dt;
That's what they were talking about, above. You have to put something to catch the pucks with under the die. I guess LAGS and indian joe are using pvc pipe couplings, that will catch the edge...

indian joe;
I may have misunderstood what you said but; you are pressing as many as six 100 gram pucks in each die load? What size is your die? Heck, you're the guy that's eligible for the first...

Graysmoke;
I'm glad it's looking better for you. Hopefully, you've got a grip on it now and can solve your problem. Carry on!

Somebody;
That sounds to me like you should be good to go. If you make sure your media is non sparking and your powder has no contaminates that can cause sparking and if you mill small quantities,...

Graysmoke;
That's a common problem, and there are a couple of things that may help you. Put a spacer or two between the piston and powder, and that can help the blow by reduce. This is where the...

StevenDJ;
.451 Speer Round Balls, 138 grain; with Old Wonder Wads, and CCI #11 caps.
My wife said they made beautiful lead Sun Flowers. ha
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I shot the new (to me) brass framed Pietta .44 today, for the first time. My flask nozzle dropped an average of 19.4 grains on ten drops of reprocessed fines; so that was how I loaded the cylinder. ...

LAGS;
I see no reason your aluminum won't work. I would think it should do very well.
Many moons ago, Linstrum posted about our plastic spacers. He said the milk jug spacers that I have been...

I tested the re-milled and reprocessed fines, that I had left over from several batches. I got mixed results, but a couple of good ones.
The most notable thing I found, was, they have great...

LAGS;
You're right. I only check puck density, to know if I'm close to the Commercial powder. If a person is satisfied with the loaded density of the powder, or can adjust for the difference, it may...

LAGS;
Absolutely. If it is different, then they used a different density of powder. And, at times they do. That is why they combine more than one block (puck) of powder in each run of powder. So...

One CC, or 1 ML of Distilled Water weighs 1 gram or 15.4324 grains. Measures are calculated on this.
1.7 Grams Per CC is what Commercial powders are compressed to. At least that is what I've read...

Thanks for the input guys.
HW; you may have said something which would keep this idea in the could have been. I never thought about all the powder trying to change direction, to get out. You may...

My first thoughts for using what we have, is something I already have and don't use. An air hose off my air compressor to attach to my 20 ton hydraulic jack, with a regulator built in. Mine didn't...

LAGS;
I hear you about this site being about home made powder. The thing is, we already have the press, the die and piston, and only lack the extruder head, to use what we already are using. ...

Guys, I'm sorry to make so many posts, but I have an idea for a couple of years, that I have to share. It could be very easily adapted to our use, which would cut process times by half, or more....

indian joe;
I hear ya on the experimenter part. haha. That's pretty much all I do. For me, seeing what I can do and can't do, and where I can gain an inch, is almost as fun as shooting. One day,...

HW;
I broke the pucks up mostly by hand, and the rest with my puck buster. I screened all the powder off, and ran all of it through my ceramic blade coffee grinder. I put it through a 10 screen...

I finished re-milling, re-pucking, and re-processing the mixed together fines.
It made 305.680 Grams of finished powder, after original screening of <20 >40, then tumbled and polished a total of...

HighUintas;
Yesterday, I pressed a few pucks from fines I had collected over the last few batches. I found something else that can cause your die to lift; cycling the press.
I put first one, and...