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One thing an inertial puller needs is a firm, that is unmovable surface, upon which to be thrashed.

I had a similar problem using my bench: when I started beating the puller on the concrete floor,...

I agree and I'll go one further: it is a dereliction of one's duty to not become and remain informed on all issues that affect us. As a citizen, WE are the owners of the country and our legislators...

This reminds me of the newsgroups when I was at Delphi (Delco Electronics). There were posts on the for sale groups on the order of:

o Free firewood - it's currently in the form of dead tree in...

The point is that S/H should represent the cost of shipping or shipping + a box and a label.

One can make the same point about a brick and mortar storefront: who pays for the guy to receive the...

Hopefully, we can do better than that.

In a perfect world, you would have slugged the barrels of the rigs that you'll be using to launch said projectiles: many suggest that you should use boolits...

I have used candle wax, marvelux(hydroscopic), pine resin, sawdust, wood stirring stix, high carbon content deceased rodents, and various and sundry magic concoctions.

By far, stearic acid is the...

Just about every Lee mold I have ever owned needed some work to produce consistently good bullets. I think most Lee molds suffer from poor venting. Many times, I get good bullets from 4 or 5...

I don't know if it's true, but I have been told bevel base bullets were invented to make machine sizing or bullet seating easier.

One possibility that I didn't see in the above posts was to use a...

I think if you throttle back on the velocity, they wont explode and many are recoverable

Lead market is under 40cents right now and surpluses are increasing. Lead was under 50cents for the last 20 years or so and spiked up recently to over $1.50/lb.

I think 25 cents is pretty good....

It works for me. I have reclaimed jacketed bullets downrange and the jackets had a lead coating on them. So, it does work, but I don't know how effective it is. I usually shoot a few jacketed...

Take the load you have now and work up in 0.2 grain increments. Check for reliable cycling of your action, the case ejection pattern, and accuracy. Work up slowly. I'd suggest loading up 10 or 12...

I'm such a worrier that I always make a trip to the casting area a few hours after I'm done to check the pot and verify that everything is unplugged and has cooled off.

That is a very sweet...

My experience has been similar to jonk. I have had leading when I used my standard hard (15-17 BHN) alloy in 45acp. I have seen two kinds of leading in my rigs:

1) ribbons of lead that try to...

I made a screen out of two layers of 1/4" hardware cloth. I offset them so that the holes were about 1/8". It's not perfect and I don't get .22 bullets, but I do get a lot of rocks. I put legs on...

I think someone posted here a few months ago about using stearic acid. I got some of e[vil]-bay and a little dab will do ya. I have used marvelux, pine resin, sawdust, and paraffin. Paraffin is...

If you get leading just past the chamber in the barrel, your alloy is too hard for the velocity and/pressure you are getting with this load. I noticed this on some powder puff loads I made for...

I like this.


I alloy up 125-150# and place a cardboard ID with the allow/hardness info in the bucket. I have a hard alloy for 38 super, 357, a much softer alloy at BHN~10 for 45 ACP and W/Cs...

I assume docone is referring to rosin (pine sap based I believe) flux, as opposed to acid flux. I think some plumbers use acid flux. I have always used rosin flux for electronic and copper pipe...

Solder flux works very well. On some alloys, after I clean all of the chaff out of the alloy, I add scrap solder. The rosin flux works very well. The stearic acid fluxing gave me similar results.

I had read about using stearic acid for fluxing bullet metal. Well, I tried it this weekend, and I was amazed. I was schmelting a magical alloy of range lead, WW, sheet lead, linotype, and a little...

I think you are close to perfectly lubed bullets. The first thing I would look at is:

1) if you are feeding bullets nose down, the bullet needs to be a little further DOWN in the die, when the...

I have the Lyman 311041. It casts well I am getting very good groups with it. Another highly recommended design is 311041. They are both GC designs.

The two designs are old and established as...

I just made some 50/50. The beeswax I am using is very hard. The stearic acid flakes that I use are also pretty hard. The alox 350 is quite goopy tho.

I really like Clays in 45 ACP. I think another powder to consider is Titegroup. It's gives me good performance in 38/357 WCs and 45 ACP. I get tight groups [smilie=1: and it's clean burning. It's...