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Excellent! My searching didn't turn up that manual.

Thanks mate, all very re-assuring. :drinks:

I have (had)150 rounds of .44-40 loaded with Trail Boss, so I pulled them all and reloaded with the 700x. The way things are going the TB could be worth more than gold soon!:lol:
Besides which the...

Oh, I forgot to mention that not many shotgunners reload these days, it's no longer economical and just as cheap (!) to buy factory loads. Reloaders are mainly black powder shooters.

15meter, here in Australia pistol powder has been virtually unobtainable for a long time, some pistol shooters were buying shotgun shells and removing the powder so they could keep shooting! That's...

Tried the powder today, very happy, it worked well. 2.6gns in the .38sp (I might increase it to 2.8gns), and 5.8gns in the .44-40. I have 150 rounds of .44-40 loaded with trail boss, I might pull...

243, nope, error 1008, blocked ip address. Doesn't matter.

Loudenboomer, yeah, I was expecting that from reading posts about it. I fitted a vibrator unit to the powder hopper and that fixed it (I...

243win, that Stevespages link doesn't work, says my ip is blocked.:roll:

Larry, that's what I needed to know, I'm using the same Lee boolit, Hi-Tek coated.
I've spent a lot of time searching the...

Thanks guys, I gather this is considered a fairly fast burning powder? From what I've read fast burning powders can be a problem in long rifle barrels? Or is this only really a problem with more...

I'm hoping the knowledgeable folks on here can help me. I recently bought a 5lb can of Dupont Hi-Skor 700x, I know this is old powder and I've found some reloading info but I need more. I know it's...

Cast and coated over 750 .38 boolits, some Zombie Green and some Candy Red. They drop at around .367 and need to be resized to .362. The first few were hard going and needed a bit of effort to...

Thanks Trev, that's pretty much what I did the first time around, I just got a bit confused when someone mentioned polishing after coating.

I haven't been here for quite a while as I haven't needed to cast and coat anything due to having built up a rather large supply.:-D I've decided that with Winter coming (so they say, you wouldn't...

Looks promising. I had a couple of 1000's (sold one and keep one for de-priming, fitted with the case feeder) and then a Loadmaster. The LM required a fair bit of tweaking, the boolit feeder arms...

Given the hugely disparate temperatures for melting lead and copper I'm at a loss to see how copper could combine (fuse?) with lead at lead melting temperatures. It seems to me that any free copper,...

Beat me to it, definitely worth a try (it works!).

I've been saving the brass bases from shotgun shells and tried melting some in my furnace, they didn't melt very well and I ended up with a powdery mass (much as bent ramrod found). If I melted...

Yep, BP is great for fouling pistols! Even with Hi-Tek coated boolits you still need lube to try and keep the fouling soft. If you do try again put a waxed felt wad under the boolit.

Your experience at pushing the coating to rifle speeds is impressive, and you're to be congratulated at persevering with the testing. It's also natural for people, when starting out, to want a solid...

Like Avenger, I haven't been on here for quite a while. Several reasons, not the least being that I've got the coating thing pretty well down pat, plus I've got so many boolits coated that, given my...

I can't speak for PC but I don't see any way that Hi-Tek coating is going to come off if shot into an animal. If hitting it with a hammer won't remove the coating then hunting certainly won't.

Those simple thermostats are notorious for being inaccurate. As StuBach said a PID is the only way to guarantee accuracy and consistency. If you've got a suitable thermometer to measure the lead...

Never occurred to me to try that, but yeah, that could give some interesting results given that the coats are usually thin so therefore slightly translucent. I'll have to try that next time I do some...

:lol: It's easy to get carried away, isn't it? I've got several thousand .38's coated and sized plus a few thousand for my .44-40 but every now and then I cast and coat a few more.:roll:

:lol: It seems some of us are determined to try and find another use besides boolits for the coating.