doc, your die has been ready for a month now. Just waiting on word from you where to send. Is your PM mailbox full?
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Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
doc, your die has been ready for a month now. Just waiting on word from you where to send. Is your PM mailbox full?
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
17 Ackley Bee AI 40 deg shoulder from 218 Bee. I had to make dies. A lot of colapsed shoulders. 25-35 from 30-30 is no walk in the park either.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I have a model 94 XTR ae with 24" bbl. Great deer rifle. Easy case to fireform.
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I found a tap and a die on amazon. Came right to the door. Tons of machine tools there.
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Doc, your star .350" dia punch and locknut w/set screw are ready. Please pm me with your address so I can send.
Lately it has been all about getting the garden planted.Nevada CastBoolit Shoot in Winnemucca this weekend.
Thanks Rick. My plate is pretty full right now, so the valve is a no go at present. First I have to come up with a design/process for a die remover. Right after I catch up on die orders.
Hello Ammohead here,
I have been hanging with this crowd since it was called Shooters back in 1999. BruceB, Buckshot, Curmudgeon, Duke and I founded the Nevada Cast Boolit Shoot in 2000. In 2 weeks...
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I was requested by a commercial caster to make punches that would have the bullet clear the short die with every stroke. Easy task if the die is back bored a bit. The backboring protects the exit...
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Would any of you have a Star die catalog showing the largest size die Star offered to it's customers? Magma too for that matter. I am getting requests that leave dang little meat in the lube area.
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I can make them but you will have to pay postage. Pm me.
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I can make any diameter punch you need under .500" pm me.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
January 1985 I saw a winchester ad for the model 94 xtr ae and had to have one. So I had a lgs order one up, and I still have it. With the 24" bbl it performs just like Mr Waters said it would. And...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Call me crazy but about 4 years ago I chambered a barrel in 6.5 grendel for a takedown 99 Savage. It doesn't feed flawlessly but it will feed reliably. It has a 24" 1 in 8" twist barrel. With the...
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See s&s. https://castboolits.gunloads.com/search.php?searchid=10543760
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https://castboolits.gunloads.com/search.php?searchid=10543760
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https://castboolits.gunloads.com/search.php?searchid=10543760
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https://castboolits.gunloads.com/search.php?searchid=10543760. Relevant S&S post.
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Thanks for the kind words Floyd. I am getting the hardening thing down, and I am ready to offer them now for the super high volume guys. Long/lube style and short dies for coated boolits.
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I don't post very much anymore, but I have been hanging with the charter members of this tribe since 1999 when it was "Shooters". I am a retired maintenance machinist with a small shop in a icecold...
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I am making "Star style" dies. As of yet they are unhardened, but I have a small forge being delivered Wed. In the meantime I have been experimenting. One experiment is with a .310" die that has a...
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I can make this die for you with custom hole spacing/placing. I make them one at a time. Ain't nothing I won't give effort to.
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 |