Well, if the weather holds out, I will go at it again. I have to get more ingot molds!! I only have 3 lee ingot molds and about 50 lbs of lead. Its painful to wait for the ingots to cool. I am...
Type: Posts; User: Unlucky1
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Well, if the weather holds out, I will go at it again. I have to get more ingot molds!! I only have 3 lee ingot molds and about 50 lbs of lead. Its painful to wait for the ingots to cool. I am...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
It ozidizes out makes the most sense to me because it would be impossible to stir it back in and expect it not to come right back to the top. P.s. i love blunt and to the point myself. So, i nees a...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Every once in a while i hear the people are pulling the tin out of the lead. What castes that? What temp does the tin melt at? I would think it would not seperate unless you get it hot enough to...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I am aware that lead metling point is aroudn 620 and zink i believe is 780. Thats why I set my pid controller at 650. I have a regular ladel that I use to actually pour the lead into the ingots...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
OK, this is driving me crazy as if I am not already there. I have a cast iron pot with a fish fryer burner running off of propain that I fabricated a fid controller into my setup to keep my temp at...
thanks all for the feedback. i have changed back to the taper crimp and made fine adjustments over and over, lots of boolit pulling and measuring and throwing boolits back in the pot. I think I...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hi all. I am currently casting 230 gn lrn tl boolists from a lee 6 cavity mold and seem to be doing well. I am considering trying a lee SWC 6 cavity mold but dont want to put out any cash until I...
BTROJ, I am still working on my accuracy so not so sure at this point. I have done a little testing with the gun in a stable position and it holds a pretty good pattern for the most part. I would...
As far a lube goes, yes after much research, it was the easiest least expensive to start with tubmle lube. You know how it goes, I bought reloading equipment and was very careful to buy at leat mid...
Yes, I meant .451. Lots of numbers off the top of my head right now. I tried a little different technique today and only used the seating/taper die for seating and use the factory crimp die to just...
Here is what I have
Pistol: Hi-Point 45 ACP
Mold: Lee 6 cavity 230 grain RN TL (micro groove) .042 diamater
Lee .042 sizing die
Lee 4 die set
Barrel Slug: .041
Powder- Hogdon TiteGroup 4.2...
I have several reloading books. Lots of info and lots of variables. I am very logically minded and trying to put it all together right now. I am sure some of this if not this exact thing has been...
I appreciate the info from all of you. I will probably be shooting 99% lead very soon as well. I have cast about 150 boolits and just need to do some cooking of LLA and Johnsons Paste wax and size...
I did size all casings with the lee case trimmer and seated and measured and adjusted the antire length and adjusted to meet spec. I will try upping my charge. I am at the minimum right now. I...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I am new to all this but are you using the right primers? I know there are at least 2 sizes and could be more.
I am new to reloading and casting so bear with me. Before I reload my cast boolits I thought I would try 230 grain FMJ RN bulets to make sure I was using my lee equipment properly before adding my...
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 |