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In a pinch, you can get away with IMR 4350, but you won't get as good performance.

I will caution you about using that data. Many of the powders that you will find listed have changed their formulation over the years, so start cautiously with minimum loadings and work up slowly. I...

I fired up my Littleton today. I started at 10 and finished at 3, with an hour off for lunch! 100# of 7.5 shot made. I used straight COWW alloy and dollar store fabric softener for coolant. Tomorrow,...

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I'm going to have to dig thru my inventory. I think I have some hiding in a cabinet. I haven't loaded any of those for years. I'll check tomorrow.

I usually load with Unique, but I have WSF as well and there are quite a few 20 ga. loads using that.

My 16 is a model 12 built in 1943. I love that gun for hunting. It is my turkey gun with a full choke barrel. I actually use it occasionally for skeet too. I usually hit 19 or 20 out of 25. Not bad...

I like Win 231 in my .45 colt with the 265 gr rnfp. Shoots well out of the Uberti SAA and groups 5 shots under 1 inch at 50 yards out of my Uberti 1873 clone lever action.

I only use really heavy charges like those in my Contender pistol. It can take loads that are right up there with .44 mag loads.

My Uberti lever in .45 Colt loves a 265 gr fprn with either Win 231 or Unique. It will hold smaller than 1 inch 5 shot groups at 50 yards off sand bags. When I do my job, it drops deer in their...

Sound Guy, I'm up in the NE corner of Ohio. I also shoot cast in 8mm. I've had good luck with a range of weights. If at first, you don't succeed. try again using a tuft of dacron poly!

+1 for expanding before trimming. It is a lot easier that way.

Yeah, yeah! Sure, sure! Like none of us ever discovered dies and bullets at the back of the shelf for a handgun or rifle we sold 10 years ago! or was that 20?? Its been so long that I don't remember!

WOW! That really sounds like mag problems to me. The only other possibilty in my mind is the mag catch holding the mag too low.

I suspect it was just bad primers. A few years ago, I had 8 bad primers out of 100 in a batch of Winchester srps. I sent them back to Winchester and they sent me a couple hundred replacements. It...

Just put the brass in and tumble it with some torn up paper towel. The paper picks up any residue from the brass and any graphite that comes off the bowl. I helps clean your tumbling media at the...

For those of you who find the .223 oppressive, I suggest dropping down to a .222 Rem. in a bull barreled Rem 700 BDL using a 45 gr. bullet. I think you might find that recoil manageable. I use mine...

I have a Littleton shot maker. I love that thing. Depending on the size shot I'm making;#9, 7.5 or #6, I can crank out anywhere from 60 to 130 pounds of shot in an average day. I use straight WW lead...

I have one of the bayonet type chronos. I had a similar problem with that. I had to increase the sensitivity quite a bit before it would register cast bullets.

GI carbines are nearly impossible to get an OOB discharge with due to the way they are made. There is a bridge inside the receiver that stops the hammer from striking the firing pin. secondly there...

I've got a nice little Colt .25 auto and like the rest of you insane people, I reload for it too. I've found that I always reload with Bullseye so I made a dipper out of a .22 rf case trimming it to...

You need to have the 3 inch loading dies. I have both the 2 1/2 and 3 inch dies for my 600 jr.

Mine is a long barreled 1873 and I use 8 gr of Unique with a 265 gr FPRN cast bullet. I have a Marbles tang sight on it and it will group under 1 inch at 50 yards. I've dropped several deer with it....

In some cases the Blue Book value is way above or way below current market values. It depends on whether the item is hot or not!

Only once did I ever have a batch of bad primers; 8 out 0f 50. They were winchesters. All of the other Winchester primers fired without a problem. All other brands fired as well. I thought it was the...