Martinibelgian: I appreciate your concern over my sizing my GG bullets before I lube them (that the lube grooves might collapse unevenly, which might be detrimental to accuracy), and I will...
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Martinibelgian: I appreciate your concern over my sizing my GG bullets before I lube them (that the lube grooves might collapse unevenly, which might be detrimental to accuracy), and I will...
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Martinibelgian
Ah... I DO seat my boolits out such that they touch the rifling, but only just. If that aligns them automatically, it would explain the good results. Mystery solved.
Larry
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Don
My next shooting session will be February sixth, so there is time to cast a few of those fat guys. If this thread can be kept open that long, I will report on the results.
Chuck
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Don
I had been full length resizing and then expanding, until I accidentally forgot that step. Several days had gone by, after I had cleaned the cases, and I simply thought (wrongly) that I had...
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Don
Thanks for your input, as always. I infer from everyone's avoidance of the words "neck size" that it isn't the way to go. Rather than reducing the diameter of the case inner wall to fit the...
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Hiram
As it pertains to my original question: After you neck size, I presume you then expand the neck so the inner wall of the case is the diameter you want, and you do that with an expander ball....
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Don
Patches are clean and white after two weeks in the safe (I shoot every other Monday). Cleaning patches at the range come out only with black gooey fouling. I wipe after every shot: One pass...
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Don
No leading problems I can see, but you never know. Accuracy, well, you tell me. My normal routine is one fouler, four sighters, then ten for record, from a bench over crossed sticks, into a...
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Rifle is a model 74 Sharps. Load is 68 grains of sifted FFFg Schuetzen (Prefer Goex, but ....). Shoots very well with fire formed cases (no sizing whatsoever) and slip fit boolits that are so sloppy...
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Freakonaleash and Lead Pot:
Thanks for the info about pushing on the nose, not the base. I pushed on the base out of a habit formed when I experimented with the Matthews boolit some time back (a...
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My method is very similar to yours. The difference (which might be responsible for my gaps) is I press on the bases of the boolits to remove them from the solidified lube cake. When you say you push...
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Thanks to everyone who has responded. I have not heated the boolits and I will give that a try.
Froogal: I too have a lubrisizer. However, I may be doing things out of order, because I cast, then...
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Hello again from the dunce in the class.
I have pan lubed my cast boolits since I began reloading for BPCR several years ago. Use a silicone meat loaf pan to set the boolits in. I pour the melted...
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Thanks to all for the helpful replies. My responses to them will be in the order they have arrived so far.
M-Tecs:Thank you for the two links. Unfortunately, both of them refer to a sliding...
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My 45-70 blackpowder handloads for a 74 Sharps suffer from excessive runout. So I upgraded to a Redding micrometer adjustable competition bullet seating die for 45-70 U.S Gov't, part number 55209)....
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I too am envious. But I am more thankful than I am envious for the wealth of information supplied by the people here, who do not know me from Adam, but who give freely of their hard earned expertise...
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Thanks for the insights, as always. I did not know that Buffalo Arms was the source for the Ideal Postell with the slightly chamfered base, nor that it was a good choice for my 45-70. The website...
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To 22-10-45: Fascinating. The Matthews book also mentions he (Matthews) had Steve Brooks custom make him a mould of the original Ideal Postell. The Brooks Moulds website advertises a base pour mould...
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Thanks to everyone for the prompt replies. I had HOPED "plain base" meant "no gas checks", but it is always nice to get confirmation. As to the mould blocks, all is well. It had been some time since...
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Have a quick question about the NRA rules in Black Powder Cartridge Rifle events, especially Silhouette. It concerns the definition of a "plain base" cast bullet. Had some problems with an older...
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That's what I had hoped to hear. The Starline cases have "star line" printed as well as "45-90", but no "Sharps", just different enough to give pause. Starline 45-70 Government cases don't have the...
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Purchased some new brass for my 74 Sharps, which is chambered for 45-70 Government. My rifle has a longish chamber, so I usually buy 45 90 and trim it to length. In these crazy times, Starline, which...
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John Boy: You are quite right. And, you are probably right in what you imply: No doubt I cracked that lever spring by forgetting to go to half cock before opening the action. Probably many times. But...
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Replied to Bent Ramrod a few minutes ago but I do not believe it went through. Thanks, Bent, that lever spring was the problem. It was cracked ahead of the screw hole. I have contacted VTI Gun Parts...
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My Pedersoli model 74 Sharps 45-70 was built in 1997. My dad bought it new at a gun show, and I inherited it from him when he passed. I have put about 2000 rounds through it while enjoying the...
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 |