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dead is dead, right? If you'd killed him with a 357, he'd somehow still be alive?

Unless you are talking about 2000+ fps, the shock wave does no damage to the organs. At lower speeds, the only damage done is by direct crushing-tearing of the tissues that are contacted by the...

CAn I ask why the trouble? If not full power/range, why not just use the .22lr conversion unit?

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I've always used a cement mixer, ground corn cobs, and jeweler's rouge. 1/2 an hour normally suffices to make 5000 rds of .45 look clean enough for me. :-)

depends upon the guns, quite a bit. Some are poor, some are superlative, most are in the middle. no matter WHAT you do, you aiint making a poor one into a superlative one. I'ts got too many...

yep, tap magic is what you want. Drilling is easier than tapping. Just because you can drill a hardened pc of metal does not mean that you can tap it.

no issues with a 6 cavity Lee mold, cutting the sprues, if done while still pretty hot, using a full sized rubber mallet. go to a plumbing supply place. they sell "non lead" solder in wire coils, 95%...

or so, and the pattern of your shotgun is but 1" wide per yard of forward travel from the muzzle (unchoked barrel and 00 buckshot). Most attacks are not made with a gun, check out the Dept of Justice...

The only one you are likey to actually HAVE when you need it is the ccw pistol that you carry always, around the house. The smaller sizes of birdshot do NOT penetrate heavy clothing and the...

I quench the mold, (with it full of lead, sprue in place) in a buck of very hot water, go like hell. Casting is agony after the first few hundred bullets, so I do my best to get it over with! :-)...

I don't see the body of the bullet standing up to more than about 1500 fps, even with a gas check and the best lube, without fouling the bore pretty badly. Why not just cast it soft and paper patch...

this is why I went with a big cast iron pot I got at Wallys, a propane fired plumber's furnace, and a Lyman dipper. I tried the open topped dipper, but it caused lots of bevel bases on bullets that...

I"ve cast out of tin ("lead free solder), which is actually 5% antimony and 95% tin. The bullets will be very lw, relative to lead, obviously, quite hard, altho they do take the rifling at 2000 fps...

almost all of your biz will be during the fall/hunting season, unless you can get an internet, American-rifleman sort fo niche/specialty going for you. Blueing and stock refinishing are where most of...

I know a guy who ruined 2 308 rifle barrels with the firelapping, and he is nobody's fool.

I once milled a Smith kit gun adjustable sight into the slide of a Star Pony 380, and also installed a cut down version of the 1911's firing pin and firing pin stop. I hated the Star's tendency to...

the one and 2 cavity Lee's lack the guide pins to keep the mould halves "in line", resulting in "angle wings' on the sides of the bullet. I'd never buy one again. The 6 cavities, tho, are excellent...

Interesting. I intend to create a cap and ball revolving rifle, with 30-30 type velocities/performance, using Triple 7 Hodgdon Black powder substitute. 3" diameter cyclinder, 16 shots, using paper...

man, I upended a 35 gal drum of wheelwts into a molten 100 lb pot, but ony about 20 lbs of lead in the pot, to empty the last of the wheelwts into it. The drum had stood outdoors for who knows how...

I always have used big melts, for consistency, and my #68 .45 ACP SWC'S have always grouped into 3" at 50 yds, from a match 1911, held in a Lee machine rest. However, unless you are a top BE...

I can size and lube the bullets cast from the 100 lb pot (ladle dip) with a Star almost as fast as the plumber's furnace can melt another batch of lead, using multiple 6 cavity Lee molds. I"ve turned...

Star, man, unless doing rifle bullets. At that, I have no expeience, and don't want any, either. pistol bullets are $80 a thousand from your local caster. YOu really want to cast 150 an hour, with a...

I used to just hold the bullet in one hand, and a stick of hard graphite Lyman lube in the other hand, and go around the bullet, mashing the lip of the lube into the lube groove in the bullet, then...

man, just get a Lee sizer die for use in your reloading press, and roll the bullets around in a shallow pan of Lee liquid (alox?) lube, prior to using the press to force them up and thru the sizing...