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Thanks, David. I had a visitor from the Detroit area who brought some ground walnut shells. I'll ask the feed store about fine grinding corn cobs.

I think you might have that backwards. Zinc has a higher melting point than lead. So after slow cooling down below 780degf, you would have solid zinc floating on top of molten lead. But you would...

I live where there isn't a Grainger, Harbor Freight, PetCo or PetSmart within 120 miles. Some of us like it out here in the sticks. There's a WalMart and a Tractor Supply Center within an hour drive....

Nice mallets. I'll bet that ironwood holds up pretty well.

So for the .30-06, there would be no real concern about the wrong primer type, just the primer performance. I suppose somebody could have loaded old corrosive primers but that seems pretty unlikely.

Mine are Speers, but I bought the other guy's WCs for my 38/357 and I'm considering buying his LRNs for my my .380 ACP. That's why I read the blurb on his website. I have Lee dies for all three...

Would it be easy to tell if pistol primers were inserted where rifle primers were supposed to be? That's the only "miss-primer" problem I could think of. I think you could tell after firing one or...

You guys are great. I'm feeling better about casting my own when I collect up enough lead.

Okay, but are there expanders that only flare? Or expanders that don't expand deep enough for cast boolits? When I look at the expander plug in my die, it looks like it would expand the neck of a...

Thanks, very informative. I may even leave the WCs protrude a little more now, because I have the cylinder length to do so. I will watch for maximum OAL. This is for a .32 H&R Mag and if slipping due...

So I should seat them flush instead of slightly protruded? I was thinking that leaving them a little closer to the forcing cone might be a good thing.

I'm a noob to reloading. At present, I plan to load only for handguns, mostly hollow-based wadcutters to start, but also 85 gr. round noses for my 32 S&W (mainly because I can't find wadcutters that...

I would dry them, load some with light loads and use them strictly for target practice. I would keep track of what % didn't fire and I would be very careful about hangfires. If a significant...

As far as bullets for handguns, I suggest wadcutters in the revolver calibers and FMJ in the semi-autos. Those are practice rounds and buying in bulk makes sense. Any other bullets are specialty...

A little wire, a little solder, a little .22LR case, a little grinding and I've got a little dipper. Precisely (well +- .1 gr) 1.3 grains of Win 231 powder for my 32 S&W reloads.

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I do nothing special. I just store them separate indoors and shield them from falling water. I just happened to be reading this a few minutes ago

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Modern sporting ammunition primers will not...

I've been reading this thread with great interest. I don't have any WW, but I might pick some up from a local tire place. I can get a lot of sawdust, but that's mostly chainsaw shavings which I think...

Keys, Gerber 500 lockback, small change, cell phone, wallet in one back pocket, TP in a ziplock bag in the other back pocket. I spend a lot of time in the woods far from a civilized place to pinch a...

Hello from the Huron National Forest. I haven't cast a boolit yet, but I'm planning to. A guy on another forum sent me here to get edumacated. Apparently there's a great bunch of guys here who...