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My old Colt I-frame .357 Magnum ("pre-Trooper" to some) in its ".41" frame gets nervous every time it catches me eyeing it up with .41 Special thoughts.

Starline does have .41 Special brass on the shelf, ready to ship.

Well, my mold just appeared in the mailbox.
If it throws bullets as pretty as it looks, we're going to have a good time together.

Huh. The next thing you know, you'll be able to walk into a store and buy a few boxes of primers.

WST is a nearly-direct substitute for Bullseye. It's a fast-burning target powder.
As such, it's perfect for .45ACP, which was designed around the military version of Bullseye.
It's good for .38...

218Bee-
As another fellow puts it, in the depths of Mordor, where the dark shadows lie...
Some folks call it Daleystan, too, so if you include the whole county and not just the city, that'll do.

Don't know if this one's been around yet, but idle moments sometimes produce useful things.
Messing around with aloxing the bullets is pretty annoying to me, so this tray evolved in an effort to not...

I got a six-hole Lee 158gr round-nose .358 mold last year and have been working it to death trying to keep my .38 and .357 cases filled.
It's not easy- I'm in a ".38 Special" phase these days and...

Not sure about the Fry Pan Theory, but now I'm hungry.

My theory, and I'm waiting to be disabused of it, is that the nose lube is getting vaporized by the burning cloud of gas as it exits the bore and the much higher-speed cloud surrounds it.
That's all...

The day before this thread started, I was playing around with the 158gr round-nose Lee tumble-lubes I have on hand for 9mm.
I tried several in spent-primer cases with WSF (my favorite 9mm powder)...

When I restarted casting a couple of years ago after a long hiatus, I couldn't find my old RCBS Lubrisizer in the garage attic with all my old Lee molds and pot. Based on reports here, I took up...

At our club, there's lots of steel shooting: USPSA, IDPA, and Steel Challenge.
The club minimum distance is 30 feet. USPSA of course allows less, down to 21 feet in certain circumstances.
We use a...

A couple of my IDPA-shooting buddies are casters, and may well have the so-called "addiction" referred to here. Of course, I have no idea what in the world you all mean by that.
One is a chemical...

The .45ACP cartridge was designed around a military powder than came later to be known as Bullseye.
The fastest powders work the best in this old warhorse, and of course, nothing beats Bullseye for...

Dang! All these years I've been using my crummy old Lee 10-pounder and I never noticed the leaking until you guys brought it up!

I just awoke to this one after posting on the "hopin'" thread. Guess I don't exactly know how these things work.
I'm in for one, if it's still available.
Apparently, I need explicit instructions....

When Cabela's had a sale on Laser Cast a while back, I bought 2000 .45s and 1000 .38s. The .38s were a nickel apiece, about as good as it gets these days.
I promptly loaded up a couple hundred of...

While there's a number of threads with information about using 158gr .38 bullets in 9mm, I don't see much in the way of actual load data for them.
Perhaps, also, some new experimenting has been...

4.2gr of Winchester Super Target (WST) should make "major" for USPSA.
4.5gr of the same is book max and should come close to being a hardball equivalent.
Works fine for me, but I'll admit I keep...

Jacketed bullets to end a session are the easy way, but Berry's or other plateds seem just a bit more gentle. And they do work!
Failing that, the Chore Boy stuff wrapped around an old bore brush is...

Yeah, the bases look fine.
Remember, I took to sizing them since I was thinking they weren't being accurate. In the Tuesday night league, I clipped a fair number of no-shoots with them and my...

It's a six-banger.

I had used my .452 Lee sizer with the 228Rs with good results but never tried the .358 one on the 158 round-nose tumble lubes I was getting from my recently acquired six-banger.
Since the .38s...

Sorry, 45 2.1, I haven't been looking at the group buy page. Thanks!