I have an RCBS lube machine, but I only use it for short pistol bullets. I find that it bends longer bullets and destroys accuracy. I tried lubing in a pan and pushing the bullets out or cutting...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
I have an RCBS lube machine, but I only use it for short pistol bullets. I find that it bends longer bullets and destroys accuracy. I tried lubing in a pan and pushing the bullets out or cutting...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Yep, the wasted case space is the reason for the dacron filler. I am old and beat up enough that recoil doesn't have the appeal that it used to.
Sorry, no pictures. You wouldn't have wanted to...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I found an accurate load with my whelen using 4895, dacron filler, and the Lee 200g boolit. Quick load predicts 1664 fps at 12760 psi. I was really worried that was a little too slow and was...
Forum: Cast Boolits
three44s -I set my full length die to the shellholder and then backed the die off a little. this was my first attempt at a build without the correct gauges. My thinking was to allow a little space...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Sorry it took so long to get back. Things have been crazy here.
No doubt that I caused of the problem. There is only .012" difference in the shoulder length of the 2 cartridges so I took a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I hope this will help someone else who is having failure-to-fire problems.
I decided that I REALLY NEEDED a rifle in 7 T/CU. I don't believe there are any factory bolt rifles in that caliber...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
That's what I was afraid of but was hoping for a different answer.
Thanks everyone
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I just received a new barrel for a Savage rifle in 7 TCU. I didn't think about the gauges till the barrel arrived. Can I use 223 gauges? If not, is there a work-around. It looks like gauges will...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Country Gent - I like the syringe idea
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
waksupi -Would Acraglas from Brownells be a better choice? The $30 price for a pound of Devcon looked pretty attractive.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I do plan on fully bedding the action, probably with devcon 10110. Thanks for all the cautionary advise, I really would not want to disassemble it with a hatchet.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Country Gent , now I'm undecided again. I have a drill press, but no press vise so I am a little leery of getting the pillar holes straight with the action, other than that it seems pretty straight...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
This is for a hunting rifle at ranges under 200 yd so it sounds like I can just bed the action and forget the pillars.
Thanks
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I'm a newbie on restocking a rifle and am considering a Richard's laminate stock for a Savage 111. Is there any appreciable benefit to pillar bedding laminate? My understanding is that it doesn't...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I was finally able to get back to the range between rain, wind, chores and the other things life throws at us. I did find a couple more rounds that loaded with difficulty. I brought them home and...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Bullets are not seated past the neck, and the neck reaming should have taken care of a donut but I will definitely take a look at that point.
Forum: Cast Boolits
wv109323 - I had a #1 several years ago that I got rid of also. I think a 3" group at 100 yd was the very best it ever did with any bullet, jacketed or cast. This one shoots the Lee soup can at...
Forum: Cast Boolits
sized cases chamber without a problem. case shoulder length should be ok, and they are trimmed to length.
fired neck diameter is larger than loaded neck diameter so it should not be binding at the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I'm bumfuzzled by this one. Ruger #1 in 275 Rigby, 130g Lee Soup can boolit sized to .287". Some of the cartridges don't want to fully enter the chamber. The last eighth or sixteenth of an inch...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I was shooting the Lee soup can 130g over 4831SC. It was cast from range scrap from a pistol berm, water dropped with a bhn of about 14 lubed with Simple Lube. Quick load said it was over 2100 fps. ...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
My son (now there's a good child) presented me with a Ruger #1 in 275 Rigby (7x57 Mauser). A beautiful grey laminate with stainless receiver and barrel in 12 twist for cast shooting. (Such a good...
Forum: Cast Boolits
thanks for the info. It was what I was looking for
Forum: Cast Boolits
I just checked the net for 22 LR sub-sonic. I found 2 sources, Aguila at 30 cents a round and CCI at 50 cents per round!! I must have lost my mind, fallen down a rabbit hole, and transported to an...
Forum: Cast Boolits
i was having shoulder setback problems on a 35 Whelen with hunting loads producing 28K pressure. It would leave the primer partially backed out after firing. I was told by folks who knew a lot...
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