I have an old CH Armory barrel and bushing I have not loaded for in a very long time. Even with .358 bullets that little case neck had difficulty keeping them in place. I had a lot of bullets...
Type: Posts; User: pogo123
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have an old CH Armory barrel and bushing I have not loaded for in a very long time. Even with .358 bullets that little case neck had difficulty keeping them in place. I had a lot of bullets...
Forum: Swaging
You may be shooting your bullets far too fast. My best accuracies were under 2850 fps, and groups opened up wide above that speed at a frightening rate. It was twist rate related, and I usually...
Forum: Group Buy Archives
Put me down for an RG4. This is my first group buy.
Forum: Swaging
Cool! Those look like my RCBS 223 and 257 dies. I wondered how the rest of the system was supposed to work.
Forum: Swaging
That is what I do with 280 Ross bullets. The price of lead and 7mm jackets was more than 154 (?) grain Remington Core-loct bullets from Midway, when Midway was known for low prices.
I swage those...
Forum: Swaging
Please say more! 9mm brass is free for the pickup anywhere.
Annealing, trimming, tooling. Lay it out there!
Forum: Swaging
yes, the Lee sizing die will work. I've used them to get 9mm brass to ~309-0.310 with the 0.308" die, but the steep entrance angle could use some tapering and definitely some polishing. But for...
Forum: Swaging
Mine is push through. I set up my Rockchucker to push through on a single stroke, and put a small plastic bucket between the die and the die lock ring.
High leverage on the press handle, but it...
Forum: Swaging
Pavogrande, there is no lead into the bottom of the die body to speak of, just a very slightly rounded entrance.
Thanks for the excellent info, Bent. The ring is very minimal if at all, and I did...
Forum: Swaging
Rockchucker conversion and a Mity Mite. Both are good in their own ways.
Forum: Swaging
That is funny - I won a .223 and a .257 RCBS die set on ebay a month ago myself.
The dies were good, and I had a bit of luck with the .223 dies (yes, .223,not .224).
I posted most of this on...
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 |