What is brand/name/purchase location of best lead removing bore cleaner?
How does Hoppe's #9 compare, as it is all I know?
Type: Posts; User: Tweaker
Forum: Cast Boolits
What is brand/name/purchase location of best lead removing bore cleaner?
How does Hoppe's #9 compare, as it is all I know?
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thankee kindly.
I am shooting from handguns between 2.5 and 5 inches in length (semi autos)
I have 180 ingots from range lead, no WW. I expect to have to add tin for filling out and antimony...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Is there any translation of the dent, scratch, mark method into a rough Brinnell hardness number? (I do not have a hardness tester)
What hardness do you suppose I would require for 9mm 125 RN at...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I have made 180 lead ingots in large cupcake moulds from range lead. I expect they are very soft. I have not invested in a hardness tester. I would prefer to not buy one.
I will only be...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I am melting over a turkey cooker. I doubt that I can melt antimoney at 1150 degrees F. How do you add this from ingots then?
Using tin is inefficient, but I can melt that and not the antimoney.
Forum: Cast Boolits
between coats.
How many coats?
I thought it was a one and dun deal.
Why would one not use a Dillon press (mine's a 550B) with cast boolits?
This would prevent me from making the jump into casting like the OP.
If one uses a turkey cooker, is that just to...
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 |