I got this sorted out and found a load that's working really well.
I got the Lee 200gr mold and with powder coat and a gas check and a 37.6gr charge of IMR 7383, which is a full case in NATO...
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Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I got this sorted out and found a load that's working really well.
I got the Lee 200gr mold and with powder coat and a gas check and a 37.6gr charge of IMR 7383, which is a full case in NATO...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
If you have non stick foil don't be afraid to use it though, because it never really seems to wear out. Ive been using the same sheet of it for dry tumble bullets for over a year now. Probably two...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
This one has been built using a PTR91 barrel which uses conventional 6 groove RH twist rifling.
The roller delayed actions like this one actually use the rollers as a mechanical disadvantage...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Dealing with a CETME, roller locked semi auto in 7.62x51. Rifle shoots just fine with commercial jacketed ammo.
This rifle needs a very brisk load to function properly. I worked up a load using...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Thanks. It was a demil parts kit from Apex. I also bought one of the original armorers kits with a ton of brand new spares, although I didn't need many. I did replace a few worn parts since I had...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I'd start at 12gr and work up till you get reliable cycling and quit there. Don't take huge steps, 0.25gr increase at a time. Pressures go up quick in a heavy bullet load in the blackout. What...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
My first full power cartridge battle rifle I recently completed...
7.62x51 CETME...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
The tools at HF vary drastically in quality from one item to the next. After our local Snap On driver quit a few years back and we were left with a lot of broken Snap On tools that had to be mailed...
After playing around with what a 7.62x39 can do in a bolt action I'm pretty well sold on it's versatility. I chose it over any of the rimmed cases because it will happily work in autoloaders like the...
The fast powders like Unique and Red Dot and such won't cycle a gas gun.
Stuff in the RE7, 4227, H110, 296, LilGun, 5744, 1680 range of burn rates will cycle an AR-15.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
What product number of the Lundmark wax are you guys buying? Our local store has three types. All appear to be water based not solvent based since they say they are non-flammable. Lundmark lists a...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Just watch to be sure it's their abrasive free formula. Only a few of their waxes are.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I had the same issue (well, my dad did) years ago with norma brass in my Arisaka, and it was set aside for years considered unsafe to fire by him. Only to find out later that it was fine with Hornady...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
The hang up with pushing plain base or a gas check bullet without a gas check with full loads and accuracy is that you have to reject any bullets with base defects, and that can make your reject pile...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I was having those same marks but changing magazine type fixed it for me. The rounds weren't stacking right in the mag and were feeding funny.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
With the Lee 155gr I load them to where the case to the top groove on the bullet and they feed just fine in my AR. I size them to .309 though, not .310.
You also have to watch what brass you're...
Forum: Cast Boolits
That was a concern I had too. The only reason I was going to try it was because it had apparently been done with success in the past.
Forum: Cast Boolits
After some tests I did last night I found pretty much what Hangfire said to be true. Doesn't hold it in place very tight. I think feeding through the magazine and recoil would dislodge most of the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
One of the pages I read did mention that they found it was important to use a fine mist sprayer to mist only a small amount to effect the top layer of powder so that the solvent wouldn't reach the...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Found a bottle of Boyd's Customs liquid yellow wax at Ollies Outlets for $2. It looks pretty promising. No abrasives, just wax and solvent, and it's pretty thin.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Anyone here use a HEPA filter unit when they cast? I picked up one and run it so that it draws the smoke off the top of the pot and filters it. Seems to work good for the smoke anyway.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Has anyone here experimented with or heard of anyone else experimenting with using solvent to bind small charges to the base of the cavity in the casing instead of using a filler material?
I was...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Is there any reasonably priced source for 7.62x39 sized berdan primers right now? I searched and searched and came up with two places, one wants $50/K (and that's about double what I paid two years...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I did find that with my rifle I had to use a lighter than standard buffer weight to get it to cycle with subsonics. I'm running a buffer with two steel weights and one delrin weight. I run an...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
About the only thing I don't like about my 8.5" blackout SBR is that I never shoot it without a brass catcher because the brass is expensive, and beyond 125m the bullet drop is extreme for the...
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 |