Due to advanced age and a very serious car accident last December, I need to find some reduced load data for my 416 Rigby. I have access to 350 and 400 grain cast gc boolits. The most appropiate...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Due to advanced age and a very serious car accident last December, I need to find some reduced load data for my 416 Rigby. I have access to 350 and 400 grain cast gc boolits. The most appropiate...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I was at Walmart yesterday and saw the first 22 magnum ammo I have seen in probably 2 years ($13.49 per box). That is excluding dealers asking more than $20.00 per box of 50. My 22 mag guns will sit...
I don't cast for the 25 ACP (yet), but do reload for it. I set my powder measure to throw a lighter than wanted charge, and then use a trickler to bring it up to the desired weight. Maybe I'm just...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I prefer reloading, because I've never been burned while reloading.
Forum: Cast Boolits
There was a Winchester factory loading with a 230 gr. FMJ, and also one with a 260 gr. JHP. My AMT shoots the 260 gr. very well, and they expand beautifully.
I bought a RCBS 41 mag. 210 SWC mold, followed by dies, and lated acquired a 657 to put them to use with.
Does it count if you used to own a gun, but but no longer have the gun? I am in the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Made my first foray into the 41 magnum world with some mild 215 SWC loads for my 657. When I find the Hornady 210 gr. bullets bought at the last gunshow, I will make some test loads for my Mark VII...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I have a Dan Wesson pistol pac 22 LR. The 8 inch barrel gets the most usage.
Forum: Rimfire Area
Where I live, IF you see 22s on the shelf, 22 LR are 15 cents a round and 22 magnums are 40 cents a round. There may come a time in future in which I will pay those prices, but I doubt living that...
You are starting out with the most versatile and fun cartridge combo of all, IMHO. When I was young, I tried probably a dozen or more different powders. After awhile, Unique and 2400 accounted for...
When I got my AMT in 45 WM, my first thought was to buy new (RCBS) dies. When I found out the price, used dies became a priority. It didn't take long for a carbide set to turn up on eBay at an...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I bought 2 pounds of 2400 (all that was left) at the last gun show. It was the first I had seen in over a year.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I started casting in the 1970s, when I was in my 20s. Made the usual progression of buying jacketed bullets, then ran across some hard cast bullets for sale. Since I could get lead free back then, I...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I can't berate you because I did something just as bad. It was at least thirty years ago when I received my visit from the tinsel fairy. I was not wearing goggles because they were just too...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Agree. Except I do buy ammo. If there is a cartridge that I do not have much brass for, and see some ammo at at a gun show for bascally what it would cost me to assemble, I buy it. Why buy the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I don't mind reloading the cartridge. Finding the cases after firing them is a bit of a challenge.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Before I started casting, I shot 45 acp Zero swaged bullets. I had no problems with leading or accuracy. My only problem was strictly gun related. My brand new out of the box Colt 1911 would not feed...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Not real judgmental are you? (sarcasm, in case you missed it) If shooting paper yields consistent groups that are of comparable size between bullets of >.3 grs variance and those of <.3 grs variance,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
You got a great deal. The 35 Rem is a excellent round, and I really don't understand why it is so often neglected. My experience with one was with a TC with a 14" barrel. I used a RCBS 180 Sil gc...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I'm not really a Glock fanboy. My ratio of 1911s to Glocks is about 4/1. My ratio of other autos to Glocks is also about 2/1. (I have a G17, G20, and a G21.) The only real complaint I have about...
Forum: Cast Boolits
When I used to shoot a lot, I would always buy something at any gun show I attended. If I had opened my last sleeve of (whatever) primers, I would buy a back up. The same applied to my go to powders....
Forum: Cast Boolits
The only pistol powder I've shot more of than 2400 is Unique. I love the versatility of 2400. You can make some pretty stiff magnum loads with it, or throttle it back and make the loads more pleasant...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I used my SBH in Silhouette either with a stout load of 2400, or H110. Either one would turn over the rams at 200 meters. My mold was a plain based 240 gr one that cast bullets a bit heavier due to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I guess that makes two of us. If I can ever find a 10mm Win Mag, I will have all of the commercially produced AMs.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
nouseforaname1246, you're a good man. In NC I can't even find WWs for sale, and you're giving them away. I hope something good come your way soon.
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 |