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This is for the those in the Phoenix Valley area.

At AJI Sporting Goods in East Mesa/AJ - he has a boat load of lead ingots (thumbnail test looks like they are already alloyed) - already cast in...

There's a fairly big scrap yard on Southern in the middle of Mesa that sells wheel weights - the name escapes me though.

Thanks all....

Looks like we are all pretty much in the same boat. Since I only load about 6-7 calibers anyway, I'll make up a Master sheet for those and switch to an electronic scale. Thanks...

Thanks guys. I'll try the checklist to see if that helps. How I could intepret in my mind that the right side of the bar scale were decimals and not whole numbers is beyond me.

Thanks Bwana - I...

Recently, while loading a batch of .45ACP with my favorite 230gr cast boolits, I realized after loading a batch of about 85 of them that I had over-charged them - I used 8.0gr of Bullseye, rather...

Hello - anyone know of any iPhone app for reloading? Not something for tracking estimating or analyzing ballistic info - rather something like select your bullet and powder and get back reload info?

OK - need some poll results....

I've been reloading for years, got hooked onto casting. Like most people, I'm still hit by the budget crisis, so money's always an issue. And I'm a low volume...

Hello, Got a conundrum,

I got the .451 230gr 2Ogive mold from Midway - casted a bunch, looked good, loaded them up - but I think I might have the crimp in the wrong location - please see the below...

Well, thx for all the input - and the winner was....drum roll.....

The M1 Carbine!

Picked it up a bit ago - and biggest determining factor was the fact that I can cast my own boolits for it!...

PS though - if I cast .30 cal for the M!, do I then need to gas check them or not?

OK- thx for the reponses so far - what I'm seeing is:

Mini 14 - problems with finding good magazines that feed reliably, accuracy not as good as it should be, but can pick up empty brass at the...

Thanks for the responses so far...

Not looking for an AR or clone - EBRs or anything that resembles them are not on the "approved wife's" list - so those are out....

Group size is not that...

OK - got a quandry here.....

I am looking for a semi-auto carbine (for a variety of reasons) - finally narrowed my choices to:

Ruger Mini-14 Ranch rifle
M1 carbine

Can't decide between the...

Well, had a Lee .452 230gr 2 Ogive boolit mold and a set of .45ACP Lee dies on backorder - Midway's website said backorder would be about a June 1st - got them shipped yesterday after only 2 weeks of...

For cutting the lubed bullets out of the lube cake in the pie pan.

Well, after my first pan-lube attempt, I decided cutting the boolits from the lube rather than pushing was the way to go - casting .452 255FP, so - here's what I whipped up:

1-.45-70 catridge...

Thanks all. I've checked the canning sections, but no luck - I'll look harder.

Anyone know where I can buy paraffin wax in the Phoenix AZ area? I'm in the East Valley.

Here's a place that sells it:

http://www.huntersbismuth.com/home.html

Kinda pricey at $7.50/lb - compared to .15 to .30/lb I've been getting wheel weights for. But hey - if you can't ban it,...

Love em - they don't need to be smoked, and after 2-3 mins, the ingots drop right out and are a perfect size to handle.

Well, my adventures in wheel weight hunting cumulated in this - for $57, I got 3.5 5 gal buckets of wheel weights. After selling the half bucket to my friend for $10, I smelted some, cleaned out all...

Two questions....

I'm using a Lee 452-255-RF mold, which is producing boolits about a .455, which I'll then size down to .452 - I would like to pan lube them.

1. Can I pan-lube them first...

Well, after much reading, research, etc. I too decided to start casting my own. Simply put, 500 cast bullets at $68 is too much for me. And, being as I cannot buy mass quantities without taking money...