I haven't tried the new Lee mold, but I have loaded bunches of the MP 147 RN. My older Canik-made CZ/Tanfo clone (Tristar T-120) is a tack driver with it and a stout load of Blue Dot. Sames with a...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
I haven't tried the new Lee mold, but I have loaded bunches of the MP 147 RN. My older Canik-made CZ/Tanfo clone (Tristar T-120) is a tack driver with it and a stout load of Blue Dot. Sames with a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I really like the MP 359-135 SWC Round nose. It feeds in everything I have tried it in, including my older Canik-made CZ clone (T120) that has a super tight chamber.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I think I do more "top-down" than "bottom up" inspection. I have run into some with a stepped case that get tossed into the "if I really have to" bucket. Most of my boolits are 140gr and up, and...
I load mine to 1.025 and iron out any bulges with the Lee FCD. I am no doubt also swaging the bottom of the bullet, but I am also running the no-lube-groove version, so there is plenty of unswaged...
I have the NLG version of that mold from MP. Mine drop around 140. To get them to feed in my guns, I do have to load them short - like you guessed. Mine sit at a 1.025 OAL. I haven't run them...
I think that mold is a brand new offering from Lee, so we may be looking to you for range reports. As a rule, I have found that light charges of fast powder - around 3 grains of Titegroup, 700X, or...
Forum: Cast Boolits
For a couple of different MP NLG molds that drop 135/140 for me, I have had best results with AA#5 and Power Pistol.
MP Molds has a mold in the weight range that you are looking for under the name 257 Jack Rabbit, and he has a 25% off sale going on right now. I just ordered this mold to try out in my 256 Win....
Forum: Cast Boolits
I had some trouble with the Lee 120 TC in my TP-9SF unless I seated it deep. If I had any part of the bullet below the ogive above the case mouth there was a chance it would hang up. Super tight...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I've run many thousands of range pickup 9mm cases through the APP for both decapping prior to wet clean, and sizing. Decapping with the universal decapper die is low drag - as mentioned previously,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I haven't used Red Dot, or 231 with this particular bullet, but I have had decent results with 231 with other heavies.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have run that bullet in 9mm. It has a fat nose, so to get it ti chamber reliably I had to seat down to 1.07. I got good results with Power Pistol and Blue Dot. Titegroup didn't work for me. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have had good luck with both the Lee 95RNF and the MP 359-93. Both are very short bullets so the OAL won't line up with any book load you have, and I still haven't dialed in an OAL that will feed...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Looking forward to a range report ACC. I guess the days of getting a brick of S&B on sale for $20 at Cabella's are long gone.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Have you considered instead of going faster, going heavier? A 147 only has to be going 850 to make minor. I have had a few CZ clones - and other 9's with 1:10 twist. They all do better with heavier...
I have really good results in my Canik with a couple of MP SWC designs. The HG275 clone is seated really deep, but gives excellent accuracy. The RN SWC...
I never got that bullet to perform well with fast powders - Titegroup being one the first I tried. Just not enough velocity at the safe pressure levels to stabilize. Power Pistol worked much better...
I like mine a lot, and like everyone else has said, it will run on anything I feed it. I've even run it at a Steel Challenge match or two. Got a lot of "does your daughter know you're using her...
I have the MP NLG SWC that drops right at 170 with my alloy. So far I have only tested with 4.2 of Ramshot Competition and that runs like a champ in my PPQ45. I think that is probably under the min...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have MPs in 135 and 147, both NLG. and they are outstanding. The 135 is a brass hollowpoint mold so the actual range depending on pins with my alloy is 135-140. The 147RN is an aluminum mold and...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
You convinced me. Just put in my order. Been on the fence about an annealing machine for a while. Your observation about rimmed / vs rimless cases tipped the scale to AGS for me. Hadn't even...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I picked up a 256Win barrel a little under a year ago. At the time MidSouth and Midway both had dies. Fairly certain I got mine from MidSouth. I think the Redding dies are now "special order" from...
This afternoon I was looking up some load data on Hodgdon's website and saw something new - "Buy Now" They pretty clearly call out that their first priorities are their normal retail channels,...
I'm right in the middle of the you guys at 1.09. 4.6gr of Accurate #5 runs well, but is a little too soft to make power factor for USPSA. 4.1 of Power Pistol just makes the grade. I have a jug of...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |