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I recently did a load of 5.56 and some .308 and some of the cases had areas where it was tarnished dark brown to purple-ish color, but only on a few cases, and some were just a spot or two.

Well, just like Stainless Steel (2,550° to 2,790°) dissolving in melted Zinc (787.2°), (see the video Elvis Ammo did on casting Zinc bullets in a Lee Stainless Steel melting pot) if you get a piece...

Not nearly as fun but if you plug the hole they come in and go out of with diatomaceous earth, they have to dig through it and will carry it inside and every one that enters will contaminate the nest...

My wife scored a bunch of Emergen-C powdered Vitamin C and I used the less tasty flavor in the tumbler.
It foams up the dish soap and really does seem to help get the wet tumbled brass shiny.

I always thought the 270 was just based off a 30-06 simply necked down to 27 caliber.

Liquid Zinc will dissolve steel and stainless steel so a lead melting pot will quickly develop holes and will fail spilling molten Zinc out the bottom.
A properly tempered graphite crucible would be...

My favorite bucket is a cat litter bucket.
They are square so stack neatly next to each other, stack on on top of the other perfectly, for storage when empty you can stack a hundred in a small space...

45 Raptor out of 30-06, you just have to trim the case neck thickness down a bit.
I'm going to try 308 brass next.
38 S&W is my favorite, only because I can just trim 38 Special down to the 38 S&W...

Aluminum Oxide is not aluminum, it's an oxide of Aluminum and in no way the same thing.

Could you imagin the BOOM if you shot it AND it were full of loaded primers?

Ok, Since the first ammo rush when nothing but the odd 270, 450 Bushmaster, and 350 Legend ammo was available, I decided to invest in everything needed to reload every caliber I own, (except for 22lr...

Powder although scarce is findable if you keep checking Powder Valley and the L.G.S. shelves.
P.V. recently got me a 5 pound tub of Accurate #2 as well as an 8 pound tub of Shooters World Blackout...

The basic question?

1: What is the maximum velocity a lead boolit of reasonable hardness can take before it starts stripping the rifling off the boolit or begins leading the barrel?
I have read...

When I melt Copper and there is either Tin or Nickle contamination, it makes a sort of Golden Bronze.

The thing is at one time people thought reloading spent brass was too much trouble and just recycled the brass, but if the day ever comes that everything is no longer available, an old tub of...

Just as things started looking bad I started to collect Reloading dies, Bullet molds, and then just as I started collecting powder and primers, they went scarce.

The 06 Gibbs looks impressive but the procedure to make the brass is a muti step process.

Ok then, looking up the 30-06 Gibbs
I am guessing it needs special Reloading dies.

I do think there may be something with a shorter but wider cartridge case where the powder resides, and long, skinny, heavy bullets with a higher BC do seem to carry out a lot further, but who knows...

The 30-06 I have and am thinking of converting is an older sears branded Winchester Model 70 that was a hand me down that looks like it was purchased new yesterday, and I have no intentions of ever...

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For me I like the idea of the brass lasting longer while still being able to shoot the (relatively still affordable) factory brass the first time around.
I'm also not about squeezing every last FPS...

I have a questions about it.
1: Has anyone converted a 30-06 over to Ackley improved?
I'm curious because while researching the Ackley improved, at first it looked fairly simple, but when I looked...

Also, if the receiver hole is sloppy or loose and all the magazines are sagging just a little, it can cause the bolt to ride over the bullet as well.
my bet is it's probably under gassed.
I...

The thing to keep in mind is, recently we were, and I still am, unable to buy (most types of) powder and primers, and if the trend continued, or got worse, you would be regretting letting them go as...