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Regarding subsonic Unique cast loads in the .300 Whisper (Blackout), after hundreds of rounds fired over a an indoor chronograph using all of the recommended powders I acquired for developing...

Good Grief!

I think the important concern will be if you were proper in using deadly force in the first place. Won't matter if you used a club.

Sherlok

Hi jleneave,

PM sent.

Sherlok

I agree with GHUgly. Get it a little too hot, then back off some.

The others are right too. Make sure to clean the moulds with alcohol to get all oil off. Sometimes it takes several cycles (like...

You got me there.

We started using it at our range because one of our members had a machine shop, had pleanty of it, and the means to cut and weld it for us. Now that he passed on, I'm not sure...

T1 is actually hardened tool steel. Not cheap, but we use it at our club's outdoor range for sillouhoutte targets. It will not deform.

Yes, I'm sure that my 3/8" plate is over-kill for .22s. But...

Well to add my 2 cents, my very first attempt with an indoor .22 lr bullet trap 40 years ago was a hot roll plate at a 45 degree angle into sand. The bullets simply slid down the plate and out the...

Hey Jack,
I've shot 2" revolvers for many years mainly S&W Model 10s. JRR and the others are right, use the 158 grainers (or thereabouts) for which the fixed sights are designed. My favorite is...

Nice looking bullets.

I have one Lee mould that just will not cast. The other two were fine from the first.

Sherlok

Personally, I'm of the old school of fluxing often (I use a candle) to keep the metals from seperating. I think it keeps the alloy more consistant during the casting session.

Has worked for me.
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All of the above recommendations are good.

Before casting degrease the moulds with alcohol.
Use a good alloy with some tin for filling out.
Make sure the mould is up to temp.
Flux the allow...

Gary,

Be real careful of the arsenic in shot. Use plenty of ventilation if you melt it.

Sherlok

My goal in life was to work hard so some day I could spend all my time working up cast bullet loads in my rifles. At 62 1/2, I am about there now.

So, yes, we're all a little bit crazy.

Sherlok

Pour it all in the pot. All the junk will float to the top.

Sherlok

Ludlow is a type of Linotype machine. Linotype is Linotype.

Regards,
Sherlok

Good going.

I can't beleive how the price of 1917's have shot up. They used to be the stepchild of US military rifles. But, no longer.

Have fun,

Sherlok

Sorry BruceB. I posted mine before I saw your last post.

My overall length for the .308 with the Lyman 311466 is 2.55" in order to keep it off of the lands. (Unfired barrel.) So really only the...

Bruce B, you are certainly the most knowledgeable on this subject. I’ve read every word of your sticky and am convinced of the need to assure that cartridges load flawlessly in an autoloading rifle...

I'm trying to load CBs for a Garand with a new .308 barrel. Of course with the short neck I'm going to have to seat my bullet (150 Grn) well into the case so the nose will just barely touch the...

I realize the possibility of a problem, but somewhere some plumber has heated an old teflon wrapped pipe with a blow torch to loosen it. Also they used to make teflon coated bullets - the so called...

Your replys are about what I thought too.

One handy thing to have when decapping military brass is Lee's ingenious decapping die. It eliminates pin breakage by allowing the decapping rod to slide...

I have a quantity of 1960's era 7.62 NATO L.C. brass that I am preping for cast loads. I segregated a number of them that have noticably off-center flash holes.

Has anyone experienced any...

That's why I gradually got rid of all of my 03's and have only 03-A3's now.

They were darn pretty to look at though.

Sherlok

As Dale53 pointed out in an earlier reply, be careful in hopping up.38 spls as early ones are out there in abundance and are not as strong as the later guns.

Since I like fixed sighted guns, I...