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Type: Posts; User: RobS
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
Last bump before moving this onward. Giving it another 24 hours.
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
Sightmark SM26043 Mini Shot M-Spec
-Sealed/New in Box
-I am selling as I received this in a trade of a new firearm and I simply don’t use reddots. These go for about $150 new
-Asking $120...
Forum: Completed Deals
1000 count 45 caliber gas checks
$45 shipped
https://imgur.com/a/GKE9c83
Please state your intent and then please PM me for payment and shipping information.
Good doing a trade and great communication. It was a pleasure.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Yikes! Sorry to hear of the bluing and all. I just use the old fashion copper chore boy strands wrapped on an old bore brush to take any lead out of the barrel.
Forum: Casting Equipment
Depends on what lead the sizing die was specific for when designed. Additionally soft lead will size smaller than harder alloyed lead mixes.
Forum: Cast Boolits
May need to increase lead temp about 25 to 30 degrees and/or create a large sprue puddle on top of the sprue plate to get it hot enough to keep the lead flowing into the cavity prior to solidifying.
Forum: Cast Boolits
May think about a tuft of Dacron filler on top of the 4198 powder before seating the bullet. Makes for more consistent ignition of powder which makes for better groups.
Forum: Completed Deals
I have an extra Lee .358” sizing die and I would like to trade for a .356 push through die. The die is in excellent condition (no rust or tooling marks; looks new). Would NOT include the plastic...
Forum: Cast Boolits
1.60” coal is long for this bullet. Maybe 1.160”?
Forum: Cast Boolits
Powder charge looks to be within reason from the several manuals I’ve looked at as well as checking online at Hodgdon. What was your COAL? This bullet along with short throats on barrels these days...
Forum: Completed Deals
Back to the top for one more day then I’ll close the thread. Onward and upward
Forum: Cast Boolits
Looks like there may be some good expansion at the head and then a ding likely from the ejection port making things look worse or more bulge than what there is.
Seat to the crimp groove and work up your loads looking for appropriate velocities for given powder/bullet combination.
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 |