Which brand of .303 brass are you using? European made brass will be within spec for .303 Brit. Whereas Rem and especially Win brass is always smaller/thinner....
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Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Which brand of .303 brass are you using? European made brass will be within spec for .303 Brit. Whereas Rem and especially Win brass is always smaller/thinner....
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
What gloob says^^^^^. This is what you need to take note of. Make a chamber cast and measure your leade. Use a bullet sized to fill the leade. (The 577/450 martini has almost 8” of tapered leade to ...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Awww you’ve spoilt it now by bringing reality to this comedy thread.
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Forum: Classics & Stickies
tow Is just tow. It’s like a course jute piece of string. Very fibrous. Kept in gun cases and used with a pull through for cleaning bores. Very olde worlde and smells bad too.
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Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
If they haven’t split all the way to the shoulder they can be converted to .41 Swiss.
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Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Pure comedy when compared to your pictures.
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Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Utter bollocks, sport, next you’ll be telling us you need consistent length for crimping. Published specs for 577-450? do show me it would be most interesting. I can almost guarantee once he has...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
You obviously have no idea what a MH chamber looks like. It is cavernous with a 6”+ tapered leade. If you think you need to trim for safety you’ve never been anywhere near one of these. ‘Jeeez’
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Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Why do you want to trim? If you are forming from 24ga brass then after forming you shouldn’t need to trim. When I first did this about 15 years ago, I trimmed before forming and the cases ended up...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
The majority of creased necks begin at the case mouth so most definitely yes, clean up your mouths with some 180 or 240 grit paper.
You need to make a few passes, so go say 1/2”, back out and...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
You need to clean the coal mine before slugging the bore. All you’re getting now are false readings.
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Forum: Casting Equipment
No you don’t need a gas check tool. The mere act of sizing and lubing a bullet will seat and crimp the gas check at the same time.
And welcome to the board.
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Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Make your mind up. You say it can’t be adjusted and now you say it is possible to wrongly adjust it. Yes it can be wrongly adjusted, that was my point.
And like 1hole says. Springback can make all...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
You obviously don’t understand how the lee die works. The mandrel determines the neck i.d. But only if the collet squeeezes the neck onto the mandrel. If the die is adjusted too far out then the...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
The further the die is screwed down the more the collet will squeeze the neck onto the mandrel. If you go too far you can pop the top of the die out and trash the threads. Not screwed down enough and...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Sounds like the die needs adjusting as the collet isn’t squeezing the case neck onto the mandrel.
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
Don’t worry about hardened surfaces. I’ve turned down brass rod on the lathe to use as the ‘I’ part on some of my homemade dies.
They’ve held up for more than 15 years with no problems.
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
That is a great price but as the OP says, he is in Europe where the price is more than double what midway USA is.
Here you go, Brownells took over from Midway in Europe. How about almost $200 for...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Same here, one at a time is fine for me.
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Yes, yes, yes. An affordable induction annealer ‘how to’ guide would be great.
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
There are a few black powder revolvers that don’t have loading levers. The Uberti Cattleman and Colt Patterson come to mind. So you have to load the cylinders off the gun. I used to have a cattleman...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Nice work, but it's far easier to use a 150 watt cartridge heater costing about $5. No machining and only one hole to drill. Warm up time around 5 minutes. Here's an old thread. The last post has a...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Search eBay for k-type digital thermometers and k-type probes. Cheaper than the old dial thermometers and more accurate. You should be able to pick up the thermometer and probe for around $20. I have...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I've had two lyman thermometers and it was only after buying a digital thermometer that I discovered just how bad they are.
One was consistently out by 60 degrees through its entire useable range. ...
Forum: Casting Equipment
That'll do it. Also after water drop hardening, the longer you wait before sizing, the more effort required.
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