All ACE Hardware stores have it. I use it all the time on restoring old funiture.
Type: Posts; User: Duce
Forum: Classics & Stickies
All ACE Hardware stores have it. I use it all the time on restoring old funiture.
Forum: Military Rifles
Whitworth the 1941 Johnsons make me drool, I can only envy you. But somewhere around this house I have the oldest of all and I do not know if it can be beat. Its a hand size granite rock that good...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Only 3 problems can cause it:
1. Pistol has a weak return spring. ( if it fires with factory rounds and locks after each shot skip this problem.)
2. diameter of round. ( possible out of round...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Glad to see you join! Now since no one else has explained to you the rules of casting it looks like it will be me the next to the new guy here.
Rules:
1. You must put up all your stuff up for...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I have dealt with removing taps from alum. all my years as being a machinist but looks like it has been covered in all the areas through argument and I will set back and watch (or read) how it all...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I just ordered from them. Thy saved me almost 7 bucks from what Midway USA had for the same thing.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I am thinking or ordering some dies from them. Heck its pay day.
http://www.fmreloading.com
Forum: Cast Boolits
OK, I sluged the bores and I have .311 for the first cz-52 and .309 for the second cz-52 now which mold should I get ?
Forum: Cast Boolits
OK, I tried to buy my way into some 7.62x25 bullets no luck so I need to buy one and get my butt to work. So I need to get a mold and its probable going to be a Lee mold for the cost ( yep I am cheap...
Forum: Cast Boolits
WOW! I have 3 or 4 babbit hammers I use. Never thought about melting them but being in the machining industry I use them to much to melt down.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I would not use anything to reload by Remington. Set aside I have never used there primers. The reason I will not is in the past I have purchased Remington Ammo, 8MM Mauser ect. and have had them...
Forum: Cast Boolits
KYCaster I am in norther Kentucky Pendleton county if you know the area.
Forum: Cast Boolits
For years I made progressive dies for punch presses and I was think of making a universal progressive die that could change out the punches and hole sets for any caliber. I have not got a lead on any...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Does anyone make there own gas checks? I could make the dies to make my own gas checks and am wondering!
Forum: Gas Checks
Thanks lead melter thats was what I was needing...................
Forum: Gas Checks
Thanks Duckdog, Would you have a number for the mold? and one for the 9x18?
Forum: Cast Boolits
If I find reload that are dirt cheap I will buy all I can get (or afford). Take them home and break them down for the components. Cheap bullets and cheap brass.
Forum: Gas Checks
I am wanting to mold my own rounds for 7.62x25 and I have a few questions. First do they require gas checks and if so which ones. And also what mold is the best for them. I am not worried about quick...
Forum: Our Town
Hey copdills glad to see ya! at least now I am not alone? hahahaha
Forum: Our Town
Thanks RCLouis I have already found there web sites thanks to you and going to start my research.
Forum: Our Town
9.3x62AL, lets see I have over 500 empty once fired cases in 7.62x25 that are talking to me every night in my dreams to get them fixed up! everything is ready for the bullets and when I find them on...
Forum: Our Town
AZ-Stew thanks for the information and I will order the books, I have some practice with a fellow who showed me as a kid how to cast but its been years and I know that plenty of rust has settled in....
Forum: Our Town
As the headline reads this is my first posting. I am just now for a old man getting into casting my own bullets, I figured I would hang around here and read and find out what I am getting into first....
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 |