[Only empty pot if I'm changing alloy and that is easy with my dipper pot for the ladle, just use welding gloves pick it up carefully (very carefully) and dump out the lead after using a ladle to get...
Type: Posts; User: Kraschenbirn
Forum: Cast Boolits
[Only empty pot if I'm changing alloy and that is easy with my dipper pot for the ladle, just use welding gloves pick it up carefully (very carefully) and dump out the lead after using a ladle to get...
Forum: Our Town
I watch the consignment sales on a couple of downstate auction houses and, from what I've seen, 'unusual/rare' ammo doesn't seem to bring any real premium money there. A week ago, I snagged 100...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I saw some H4895 earlier this week...@ $42.50 (plus tax) a pound!!
I've been using one of the DeWalt "2 in 1 stackable" tool carts for several years. Can fit in everything I need for a range session except my big Meade spotting scope...and its case has a shoulder...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I do it all the time...flawed/damaged/pulled boolits, boolits designs that just didn't work out for one reason or another, boolits that I no longer have guns for, etc. Right now, have active bids on...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Pick it up, run it in the tumbler for a while, inspect and sort by headstamp, reload, and shoot. Not much more to it. Last week, I picked 102 lightly-tarnished, once-fired Hornaday .308s out of the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Back when I was shooting a lot of NRA Action Pistol competition, CCI primers were notorious for being 'hard'. I had a couple revolvers, 'tuned' by the S&W Custom Shop, that were totally unreliable...
Forum: Our Town
A book or two a week from the public library with a personal library that's fairly eclectic; full sets of L'amour and Heinlein in paperback, O'Conner, Keith, Nonte, and Brownell (all four volumes of...
Forum: Factory Rifles
As already posted, value is what someone might actually be willing to pay. Around this part of the world, with a decent bore, maybe $250-$300. FWIW, though, 5 or 6 years ago, I paid (IIRC) around...
In the past, burned a lot of AA2015 with jacketed in 7BRs and 7TCUs. Because I had some left over from my IHMSA days, tried it for BP-level loads in 45-70s...no significant improvement over IMR4198...
Forum: Factory Rifles
IMHO, go with the levergun. I have both a .357 Rossi 92 and JM Marlin .44 Mag and wouldn't even consider trading off either one. As for the Ruger PCC, can't buy one in this state due to our stupid...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
+1 post #10 (Chill Wills). Started out pan-lubing using SPG shortly after obtaining my first BPCR...about 15 years ago. Put together a batch of 'modified Emmert's' when I ran out of the SPG and...
Currently, VV350 'cause I scored an unopened 4 lb. jug from an estate auction last year for $90. (5.0 gr. under a PC'd 125 gr. RNFP produces 1030 fps from my SIG 365 with an SD of 19.3)
Bill
Forum: Cast Boolits
It's a matter of boolit distortion from centifrugal force. Stability ceiling for lead alloy projectiles is somewhere around 225,000 RPM and, with a 1-10 twist that translates to approximately 2100...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Assuming that your M700 has its original barrel, that's a 1-10 twist so, at 2200 fps, you're pushing the top end of the velocity range for most .30 cal. cast boolits. I shoot that same 200 gr. Lee...
Forum: Military Rifles
I've got an '09 'Engineer' carbine that's one of my favorite milsurp 'shooters'. Lee 312-185 PC'd and sized .313 over 24-25 gr. 4198 will pretty much match ball ammo accuracy @ 100 yds.
Bill
Forum: Casting Equipment
Been there, done that...once! Propane torch to melt led away from bottom-drip nozzle then removed base-plate (with attached 8-pound lead drip) from my Lyman 25 and placed it my smelting pot. Fired...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Got some of these when they first appeared on US market. First brick worked just fine. Second brick a month or so later, not so good: okay in the Rossi '92, but occasional FTFs in the SIG and I...
Forum: Our Town
+1 on Post #6. When I was "in the business" I built three firing line shelters for private ranges and found that triangular styrofoam baffles worked pretty good to absorb/deflect muzzle blast. On...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Kitty litter...fresh, not 'recycled'...works pretty good, too.
Bill
Forum: Our Town
Yeah, but minimum order is a case lot of 5,000 for $549.99. I just got 2000 Ginex from Diamond K for $106/k (after discount coupon) plus $48 shipping/hazmat.
Bill
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I've used moderate charges of AA2700 for heavy boolit loads in .30-06 and can state from experience that it definitely prefers magnum primers. Accuracy with R-P LRs was marginal, at best, and I'd...
Forum: Our Town
No snow here in the flatlands but lots of breeze to keep things cooled off...94 consecutive hours of sub-zero wind chill between Sunday night and around noon yesterday!!
Bill
During my IHMSA days, I owned (and handled) a number of DWs and don't recall any without the cylinder stop. Regardless of that, those 'Monson guns' are considered the best of the DWs so I'd say...
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
What model...Classic, Tropy, Elite? Reticle...Ballistic X or Dual-X?
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 |