What we ended up with was alternating the heavy use shotgun presses with less often used ones. 12 gauge, 410, 20 gauge, 28 gauge then 16 gauge. It affords me some bleed over room onto the rarely...
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
What we ended up with was alternating the heavy use shotgun presses with less often used ones. 12 gauge, 410, 20 gauge, 28 gauge then 16 gauge. It affords me some bleed over room onto the rarely...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Thanks so much for the advice. It really is helping. I need to have them mounted since I'm often teaching or letting friends load here. I built 2 wall anchored benches with what appears to be...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
After a zillion years my reloading room is getting a complete remodel (floor,benches,lighting etc.) Anyway my question right now is specific to shotgun presses. Two texan progressives and 3...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I just like old stuff so I figured I'd be way up there. But others seem to have the same affliction
2 hollywood
5 lyman 55's
1 b&m
2 ideal #5s
5 lee autodisc
2 dillon
2 texan shotgun
4 MEC...
Send a PM to Miha Prevec and see if he has one in stock. He usually makes a few extra on every group buy. The penta does work well of you get the mix just right. The round HPs work just fine though...
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
My new star arrived earlier this week. It's beautiful ! Dug around in the shop and pretty sure I have all the stuff to fit air pressure lube. While I was at it, I took a look at a gear reduction...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Lots of opinion here and I'm not going to criticize anyones. Every persons circumstance, needs, skills and experience are different. I haven't been able to kill even half of my depredation permits...
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
OK Now ya'll are makin me a bit nervous. Star called friday to tell me that my sizer was being shipped (a month early at that) After some fast PM's with lathe smith my dies will be on the way soon....
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
Well some of us may be old casters but new star users. Just ordered 3 dies from chris on friday. I'm sure that they will be most excellent. The great part of doing business with him is that he...
Just a quick note to tell you that this worked beautifully. 2 pots in today with less than 10 culls. I just cut the sprue, flip and tap the hinge with a piece of mule deer antler. The mold pops open...
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
Second week of september will arrive without your intervention for sure. The star on the other hand will require that you act...
Just saying
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
Fred; Thank you very much. I appreciate that you took the time to explain the minutiae of the system. If there is ever anything I can do for you, let me know.
Those are the answers I needed....
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
It works great in a dillon. lots of smoke for me. I tend to save it for the shotguns
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
Thanks Fred: Is the slide a pretty basic square piece of aluminum with an appropriate sized hole in it? I'm just asking because I have a 3 axis manual mill and if it's not a complicated compound...
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
Ok someone explain "bullet feeder with one caliber" do I need to change out the feeder with different calibers?
Also "small or large caliber conversion" What exactly am I converting ? Is this the...
Thanks guys its very helpful, The mix (50/50 pb/coww) works great with the other molds. In fact when I get tired of messing with the 125 I grab the .357-95 mp which is very similar in that it has...
I know this problem is me and I just haven't figured it out. I have a dozen MP molds and never had the following problem.
It's a .357-125 for my 9mm's
The boolits stick in the mold at their...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I often mix something near 45% plumbers lead 45%WW and 10% lino. 19 years as a printer so I have a fair stockpile of foundry lino pigs. I have no idea why I mix like this, well nothing arguably...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
For the most part I'm a big fan of imperial, but years ago, loading large volumes of 5.56 another volume loader showed me this. Dump up to 500 tumbled cases in a brown paper bag and spray "pam"...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have a business acquaintance that inherited a 550. He asked if I was interested in it, I tried to hide my overwhelming joy. Then he told me it was in texas (no I aint sayin where) and it would be a...
I don't do a lot of bowhunting anymore but I can say that learning bow hunting taught me more about hunting than any other method. For me it is not only my capability but the animals body language....
Forum: Our Town
The sight and smell of 700x and boolit lube smoke.
Coming home every day to a wonderful wife. I smile every time I see that woman...
Forum: Our Town
I too hunted on the way to school and if we couldn't break down the shotgun to fit in our locker we just trotted it down to the principles office till the end of the day and hunted our way home. That...
Forum: Our Town
I built one on a remington pump 06. used an octagon barrel for entertainment value. Blew out the 06 to straight wall. It's a Bates 444 special. The biggest problem is the magazine. The factory one...
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 |