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What kind of pistol/revolver are you going to use? I use and 1858 with a conversion cylinder and pure lead bullets. They work great, but it has deeper rifling because its a cap and ball gun. Its my...

Big Slug brought up about Drones also. Infantry has always been a main stay. Drones are making tank obsolete possibly, or needed redesigned to only top attack. Then they will be weak to infantry...

I think obviously we are not privy to any of the testing data, but 277 fury packs more velocity and ft lbs than 308 does. I'll assume a penetrator, steel core round would go farther with the extra ft...

I shot WW lead, water dropped from mold and powder coated and water dropped for 30-06 and 30-30 and all was fine. Now using 6.8 SPC in the AR I am getting a slight spread at 100 yards. I am hoping to...

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I tried the Eastwood Hotcoat Translucent Grape and it did not work right out of the bag. I did not open it until I was using it and it was 35% humidity when I opened it. It stuck spotty and the...

I've always used Eastwoods powders, hotcoat . Lime green and light blue. I bought a pound of Translucent Grape and it will not stick. I only dry shake and bake when humidity is under 40% and it was...

Thanks, I heat treated the lot today. I sixed them before doing anything. Save one air cooled, and one heat treated for hardness testing later on. Washed all the bullets to get the sizing lube off...

I was reading about heat treatment being more consistent than water dropping. SO I cast a bunch for 6.8 and air cooled them as I can inspect them better and back in the pot while casting for all the...

A buddy gave me some lead. He yard sale found it and gave it to me. It penciled out at 16-18 bhn and I thought it could make nice rifle bullets. I melt it in the pot and a lot of stuff came to the...

Download GRT (Gordon's reloading tool) and learn to use it. If you are going to vary powders, bullets, seating depth you need to know what you are looking for.

It tells me a 158 grain bullet with...

I ran a ladder from 24 grains to 26 grains of IMR 3031 on 140 grain cast bullets in the AR15. The groups at the end tightened up vertically but not horizontally. I seemed to be getting right drift...

Same, I call it Indian butchering. Modern butchering only leaves bones in because they use band saws to make the job easier. Hang in the garage and bone out into meat lugs to the basement fridge and...

Well, I have never used case lube sizing before. I threw a bunch of bullets in my zip lock for case sizing and sprayed with case lube. Didn't work for first ten and now they are better. I guess lubes...

SO I have powder coated 9mm, 30-30 and 30.06 bullets and all the time I just shake and baked on a wire rack in the toaster oven. I was working toward a 6.8 SPC round and cast a bunch, water quench...

I got the 50 calibler and use 45 cal slugs in sabots out of it. I tried REAL's as i used on the other one with the old style deep rifling and they just stripped out. Maybe a harder lead or powder...

So I filled the barrel up at lunch time and shot off a few round.

Previous lead bullet - .933 wide on largest spot - 252.44 grains
1/2 and 1/2 bullet - .807 widest spot - 257.72 grains
Wheel...

I just shot two last Thursday in early muzzleloader season. A buck and doe and the bullet on both entered the left side and stopped on the skin at the right side with no exit wound. I use the Lee...

Kill pigs!!!!

There is also fishing for Redfish. Best time of year for it.

I have Lee, NOE and MP molds. I like them all and the latter two, obviously the best, because they are better. I have really been sold on the MP mold because Miha makes mostly brass molds, or at...

That big flat nose probably needs to be seat shorter than an OAL for a typical spire point bullet. The skinny tips go farther up the barrel. I get a empty case seat a bullet and chamber it, keep...

Square base 167.34 grain Base .2825
rounded base 166.8 grain Base .282 but I think it might not be a lot of base to fill the corners, the more I look at it.

They got culled.

Well these will be for a 30-06 and like a saw a doe the other day on an access trail at 150 yards and didn't feel like taking that shot with the 30-30 and iron sites. Now the 06 and a Leopold scope,...

Differing opinions. These will be seated and sized, powder coated and sized again. I think they should be on tight.

Does the bullet on the left need to be culled, or will it work just fine once gas checked and powder coated? I am thinking with a gas check, I won't notice. Honestly, they are semi rounded them...