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Have you considered 17 HMR? It's a pretty amazing little cartridge. No recoil, inexpensive rimfire guns, flat shooting, and relatively affordable ammo. If she did her plinking with a 22, and...

I've thought about building a tumbler to electroplate bullets. A bucket full of solution, with an electrode running down the middle and some fins that conducted electricity. Imagine a concrete...

I'll have to try that electroless technique. I have an eletroplater for circuit boards, just didn't want to pollute the system.

As for talking sense into the range; They haven't been receptive. ...

The local indoor range will not allow the use of bullets with exposed lead. For some reason they will allow 'coated' bullets. It costs enough to go the range that I usually shoot 400-500 rounds,...

You picked the clips out one at a time with needle nose pliers... That's commitment. I use a metal kitchen spoon with holes in it. Drop it in the pot, let it heat up so the lead doesn't stick to...

I find that I have to size my tumble lube bullets to get reliable functioning, especially in autos. When I don't size my bullets, I'll get two or three rounds out of a hundred that won't chamber. I...

I shot the Lee 500 grain spitzer from my Lott, cast with wheelweights. Decent accuracy (2-3" at 100 yards) with about 65 grains of H4895. I ended up selling my Lott (ruger #1) because I ran out of...

I had a Marlin 30-30 a while back. I found that the barrel shot best with .310 bullets, which I sized after casting from Lee molds for .312 bullets. They ended up working much better than the .309...

The 175TC from Lee works great in my S&W M&P Compact.

27 years old. Been casting for two.

A 6 cavity mold will speed things up if you can keep the pot full of hot lead. I usually preheat the lead ingots on my turkey burner and ladle the lead into my bottom pour lee. Then I never have to...

The other downside to swaging is that you need to use really soft lead, which is more pure, and usually more expensive.

I usually thin the LLA with a bit of mineral spirits and apply liberally to the bullets. They then get put on a cookie sheet with a fan blowing on them. The fan will dry them in an hour or two. ...

I have the 175 grain Lee tumble lube bullet for my 40. It casts nice bullets. The only challenge is the high pressure of the 40. It makes leading more of a challenge than with lower pressure...

I've seen this tool for eliminating what I'm talking about... Don't know if it works or not...

http://www.larrywillis.com/458Lott.html

It aint so. Not the band. The case in front on the band. Since the die has a flared mouth the dies won't go far enough to get that last little bit of case above the band. I measured it with my...

My Lott dies do the same thing. It doesn't seem to be a problem... The bigger problem is the magnum ring at the bottom. After a handful of hot loadings the ring will expand and make the cases...

I have a 30-30 Contender, and a Ruger #1 in 458 Lott. Casting for the Lott makes it usable in everyday life. Glad to see the new forum for single shots.

Why not cut each mold half one at a time. No weird vices, etc. Seems straightforward to indicate a block and cut into it... Does the cherry approach reduce chatter?

I'd try Chore Boy copper scrub pads from the grocery store before steel wool. The Chore Boy's are all copper...

You could try an electrolytic bore cleaner like the Foul-Out... More expensive, but less hard on the bore.

Time to try a muzzle break perhaps? How big a rifle are we talking here? A 7mm-08 with a big muzzle break would probably be easy enough.

Glad to hear that you caught it in time, and that you...

Why are you using a gas check? Are you going for full house loads? Seems like extra money and time...

Are you sizing the bullets after casting?

Use the full length die as a neck sizer. Works great. Screw it down just enough to size most of the neck, without touching the shoulders or body of the case.