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I see you do not have to be a resident of Wisconsin to voice your opinion. You just cannot be anonymous, you have to supply name and address.

So if you hunt or fish in Wisconsin or may in the...

I hope it doesn't pass. But if it did - we would have to hope that it didn't include some language requiring ammo to be from an approved manufacturer i.e. you can't just cast your own.

It would affect me greatly. All my deer hunting is with a traditional flintlock with a slow rifle twist. I don't think there would be any way to get a copper bullet to stabilize. .

I don't know if there just isn't a live link yet or what. On-line input doesn't begin until the 10th. I will return and post a link to the on-line input when I find out more.

In the mean time,...

Just FYI. There is a question on the Conservation Congress asking whether lead ammo should be banned for hunting in Wisconsin. You can vote tonight, or online later this week.

Ok. Here's the pulled bullet:
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That could be that they're at the top of the pressure. The same loads work well in a Micro9 excepting that I size them to .356" for the Kimber.

The near-perfect nose condition is because they...

Yes I have a separate thermometer I put in the o en. The oven is surprisingly "on" at the 400 dgreesetting.

It'll have to wait until tomorrow. But I think I can do that.

In posts #7 & #8 I included a photo of an unfired, sized bullet, plus a smashed one. I see the unfired 95 grainer is obscured by the smashed one. But you can see the 125 grainer pretty good.

Included in the first photos are one unfired bullet and one smash-tested bullet. Bullets from both molds passed the smash test. I put em in a toaster oven at 400 degrees for 25 minutes.

Any chance seating the bullet nearer the rifling would help?

Mostly COWW. Some range scrap.

Oh yeah. Measurements. The 95 grain RF was sized .357 before and after the widest parts of the bullet are ~0.3554"
On the roundball which was unsized (.360) and the widest parts were around 0.3556"

Maybe this picture shows them better. The paint worn off. That is bare lead, not gray fouling you see.
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Ok. Slugged the bore:
The yellow one is the 356-95-rf.
The red is a.360 roundball.
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You mean to pound a cast bullet through it?

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313066 Sorry, I can't figure out why the picture shows up sideways. It looks noraml on my computer until I upload it.

The Ruger is an SR1911 Officer style 9mm.
I am using Smoke's Bacon grease. And I used both CFE Pistol & BE-86. I slugged the barrel & it is .3556" diameter at the grooves, bullets are Lee...

Now that the snow has melted I recovered a number of cast bullets I shot earlier. To my dismay they were all stripped to bare lead.

I am wondering if this is a common problem with Ruger barrels? ...

Do the bullets mushroom or deform when they hit rubber mulch?

I find it useful to recover spent bullets and read the rifling marks and such, and digging them out of the snow works, but can be difficult to find them. Does anyone have any clever ways to catch...

Ok. That's a satisfactory answer. Since its an IWB "cool factor" isn't worth much

Just got a new leather holster. It seems to fit well and holds the gun even when turned upside down. However it isn't really shaped to the gun. Is that even necessary? Could I soak it and form it...