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Anyone have these in stock yet? I signed up for notification from lee and titan.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Paid .60 a lb this morning. Mixed lead theres usually some solder mixed in the bin I always grab. There were 3 bags of #9 shot i was tempted to grab but passed.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I haven't had much luck with the metallic or sparkling powders by themselves either. They do work well when mixed with a little bit of another powder.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
My new lee 312 185 it barely casts at .3105 with cow + 2% tin. As an experiment I added a 1 inch piece of linotype to my little lee pot and got them up to .311 which works for me after 2 coats of...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Went back and used my micrometer and came up with an average of .4734. Recrimped several already loaded rounds and got most of them to go all the way in. Seems like the federal and CBC brass are...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
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Sized cases measure .472 and chamber fine.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I can give dave a call or stop by, it's only a 20 minute drive for me, I might as well get some head space gauges as well.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I am having an using with a new "match barrel"
Chambers FMJ however my cast loads at .473 only go about half way into the chamber. My factory colt barrel and Springfield plunksnot problem I am...
Forum: Cast Boolits
My results with 2:1 COWW and stick ons +tin are about the same with the noe 135 hp. I get better expansion and less broken noses with the shallow pin. Bullets were shot into snow muzzle velocity was...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Less than my wheel weight + tin boolit. Melted down in my ladle with a propane torch. Melted in down in muffins and will cast a few and check them later.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Melted a piece and after cooling came out to just over 20 bhn
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Hello all,
While digging through lead at the scrap yard I came across a large candle holder. It is marked
Coronet plate EP lead. It has slightly more ting than wheel weights. I broke a piece off...
Forum: Cast Boolits
This is pretty much what I do too. Although I do cast a few hundred extra ahead of time its more convenient to powder coat that way. That few hours a week is my me time.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I saw a 1050 mark 7 set up in action last weekend at a commercial loaders shop,it is a sight to behold.Andriod Tablet program runs the whole system, laser sensors, press stops automatically when...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Walnut/corncob tumble
Size and deprime ,look for splits etc.
Handprime with lee primer
Auto Indexing turret press with lee powder through dies and dispenser ,weigh the first 5 charges and every...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have a colt with a heinie front dovetail would like to have novak cuts becuase of the wider variety of options. Would a simple recut be possible or would it have to be welded and then cut.
$87 shipped for 4 lbs of in stock pistol powder had me looking at etr7. Says to use titegroup data, 4.5-5.5 grains. Any one worked up or ran some through a chrongraph? I've also heard it's csb 1 in a...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Tried out a variation of Ben's LL, 50% Alox 30% JPW and 20 % liquid wax. Dried harder than 50/50. 230 noe hollow point from a 1911 and a 625 average was 863 fps, no leading at all I usually get a...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Very glad to hear that,not that 45 acp is a pressure monster. Might need to break down and buy a chrony.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Single shot 45 acp. Only know that the gentleman I got froms grandfather was a gunsmith. Looks like a blank was turned down and fitted into the shotgun barrel stub. I believe it was a 410 originally...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I size before and after,my lee 452 TC mold drops them at .455 if I size only after PC'ing the coating gets awfully thin.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I took the plunge and decided to give powder coating a try. It was much much easier than I thought it would be. I am very pleased with the results and hope to give them a try this weekend. I would...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I tried fast powders as well and had no luck. I settled on 19 grains of IMR 4895, I suspect something along the lines of varget would work as well.
I've done the same with the lee slug mold lots of cheap fun with my 870.
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 |