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He's a friend, right? Then the answer yes. He provides the lead, you provide the fuel and and a hot place to melt it. What's the worst that could happen? You have some beers, chat a bit, and you both...

Sorry for your luck...

Dead soft lead? ...cold chisel and a hammer.

I *think* an ordinary #2 pencil is somewhere around 12-14. You probably have one of those laying around. A pencil test with it will at least tell you if you're north or south of that bhn.

Defcon 5 and 6 do not really exist...these are just figments of a reloaders imagination.

Can't say for sure...but educated guessing suggests: 1) No, but it could make it worse. 2) Maybe...if PC can prevent or mitigate said deformation.

My observations after reading about everybody's...

^^^^ Great post.

Never done it, but...If the fan is 110v then just tap the incoming oven power to a separate switch and wire your fan directly to the switch. Mount switch wherever...Now all ya gotta do is remember to...

Pac NW...Great climate, not humid at all. (but to all of you lurkers from California it SUCKS here...you'll hate it. Rains all the time. People are ********. Don't come here anymore...seriously, just...

I do water drop after PC. I use the copper sulfate method you first talked about here. It's primarily Lino/WW with Cu...Not terribly worried about losing hardness. This is tough stuff.

I have some...

Basic 5.56 load I've been working on...I've chatted about it in the plating thread. Same super hard alloy.

This is an AR. 1/9 twist, 20" barrel. Good gun, always been accurate. I have a Ranch...

TL PC? What is that?

And yeah, these little bullets are a BUGGER. Hyper sensitive to the smallest variations...Interesting observation: My bullets cured standing have this slumping toward the base...

Quick question...when you wipe the base of your bullets, do you remove all of the PC? IOW- the bottoms of your bullets are not coated, they are bare lead?

Tiny mothers.....223. My curiosity has to do with different coat/cure methods having different performance as velocity increases.

EG: Is anyone else noticing that as velocities increase different...

Yeah, I've seen guys say they're GTG too, just a bit harder than CCI. I have 2.5k of them...Both misfires had solid firing pin contact. Hadn't used these in a couple years b/c they did this to me...

Many manufacturers also make 400 degree powders that can be run in 350 degree cure cycles. This is mostly for high density substrates. I use a couple of these powders, they do cure all the way thru...

Primer shortage is really becoming a pain, eh? I've resorted to using my Wolf SRM primers. Still got 2+k CCI No. 41, but saving them.

Took a test batch out this weekend and had two...

Have any other members spent any time conducting accuracy tests at higher velocities (2500+) using different PC methods as the input variable?

I've been tinkering w/ 3k+ loads...playing around...

...If you PC your bullets, use the toaster oven you cure your PC in. Set it to 400 w/ the door open and sit your mold block on the rack, handles protruding out the open door. When I have to stop to...

If you don't want to risk toppling bullets when you move a tray around, start w/ a cold oven. Put your tray in all the way. Place your bullets working back to front. When they're all in, close the...

Yeah, copper...was just yanking your chain with the 'jacket' bit :)

An inexpensive jacketing rig:

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I would think for this kind of thing you might have better luck using a turret press...although I imagine the swagging would put an awful lot of stress on the indexing lugs.

When I first got into PCing I had this happen more than once. My oven's temp controller is pretty accurate but it still happened sometimes....Try lower settings and maybe get an over thermometer to...

Can't comment on how necessary case expanding is to get a straight-seated bullet, but a simple chamfer to the inside of the case mouth seems to be enuf to get it done in the AR loads I cast.