I good cheep way to heat your bullet size machine...,
is to simply aim your wife's hair blow dryer at it.
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When it's warm enough, you will feel the lube is soft, through the pressure...
Type: Posts; User: robert12345
Forum: Casting Equipment
I good cheep way to heat your bullet size machine...,
is to simply aim your wife's hair blow dryer at it.
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When it's warm enough, you will feel the lube is soft, through the pressure...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
The Remington is a fine revolver, with a bad grip.
The Colt is a bad revolver with an excellent grip.
Choose your poison.
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The nice thing about the Remington is, you can sight it in, by...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Nope, leave it alone.
The guy likely knew what he was doing.
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A dirty top on an aluminum mould is likely a buildup of bee wax, or other bullet lube.
That buildup, acts like a lube, to prevent...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Bullet lube has been discovered.
The best lubes, ...give the best bullets, ....reasonable accuracy, ...up to around 2200 fps, and that is pretty much the upper limit.
Re invent the wheel on...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I had a 250 savage when I was a kid, it was well balanced, accurate, wonderful.
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I re chambered it to 257 improved,
then I sold it.
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I really miss that 250, it was the one that got away.
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Nope, I do not know.
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But,,,,
I read some where, ....some place, that once a metal has been alloyed, it is alloyed forever, and they way it is made pure again, is to dilute the alloy with pure...
Forum: Gas Checks
Pan lubing is....slow.
If you do not have a sizing machine, my suggestion is use slip on gas checks, ( the gas check store ) then, hand lube them, as you sit in front of the TV set.
Do not...
Forum: Military Rifles
I've never been much of a war booster.
The majority of war's victims are not soldiers; playing the game..;
they are moms, dads, grandma, grandpa, ......and the little kids who get in the way,...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Do not waste your time trying for accuracy at low velocity's with cast bullets.
Stick with the high energy shotgun powders, they burn fast, and do so at consistent uniform pressures.
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4895, with...
The 30-30 and 32 special are really nice for cast bullets.
Long ctg., case necks, and small powder charges.
Factory velocities of around 2100 fps...
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If you are going for normal full power...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Hummm.....
Pure lead and a paper patch.
Yur bullet is going to "slump," at velocities over about 1000 fps.
By "slump," I mean the lead will be accelerated soo fast by your powder charge, that...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I know you are looking for a sizing machine, so my opinion might not be relevant,
but...,
were I shooting only rifle, I would use a slip on gas check, and hand lube the bullets,
and not size...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Get a set of bolt cutters, and a wheel barrow, then, late at night, cut your way in, fill up,,,
Then get the heck out ...
FAST !
And, hope there are no video cameras.
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Maybe wear a Bill...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Prime your 2506 brass,
add 8 to 10 grains Unique.
No need for a bullet.
No need for a wad.
Level the powder !!!...........!
Chamber the primed, charged case into the 3006 chamber.
The best, and my most favorite 9mm bullet of all time is the RCBS, 125 grain 9mm gas check bullet.
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Sadly;
it's painfully slow to cast,
and,
it's a pain to size, and apply the gas check...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
The problem with a plain body bullet is lube.
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The lube groove, exists to hold lube, and to dispense that lube; as the bullet makes it's trip down the gun barrel.
A lube coated cast bullet,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Humm...
Don't bother to waste a lot of time thinking about it.
Cast bullets should be heavy for elk, but,, a cast bullet in 30-06, no matter the weight, does a dis-service to the elk.
Yes,...
The good fellows here are correct, the 30 and 32 rem, are simply rimless versions of the 3030 ctg.
Use data from any book.
I have never reloaded for the rimless versions, but I have for the 3030,...
Sir,
I would add something:
The .455 was loaded with several different bullets over the course of it's history...
As I recall; one load used an inverted hollow base wad cutter, designed and...
Humm...
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The .455 Webley:
I street walking in Portsmouth England, about 15 years ago,
I came across a little gun shop, so I stepped through the door.
Behind a glass, was a pile of...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Some days ago on this forum, I proposed a new cartridge, for the AR platform.
This new cartridge, would be the standard .223 case, necked up to 30 caliber; and it would launch a 125 grain cast...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Baby Bell cheese wrappers for bullet lube, now I have heard everything......
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If you want good bullet lube, just buy it;
get lee lube in the hollow stick.
Or,
if you want a harder lube,...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I have no experience with the 35 Rem.....,
but, I have read a good deal about cast bullets, and hunting deer in that caliber.
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From the pictures and articles I've read, you are on the right...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
With cast bullets, it is shot placement.
Cast loads penetrate fine, but the do not dump energy well.
So you compensate, by placing the shot through the lungs, and be ready to follow up.
Forum: Vintage Powder Cans / Tins
These cans were sold factory new, in the early 1970s..
I have several full, sealed, new, and unopened cans of bullseye, unique, and 2400 put up in just these cans.
I also have 3 pounds of Hi...
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 |