It sounds like your still dealing with some unknowns (exact chamber dimensions, etc)... treat this like a science experiment and identify as many specifics as you can.
Shooting a box of J’d boolets...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
It sounds like your still dealing with some unknowns (exact chamber dimensions, etc)... treat this like a science experiment and identify as many specifics as you can.
Shooting a box of J’d boolets...
Forum: Cast Boolits
While reloading some standard wadcutters for my S&W, I saw the Speer reloading manuals have a page dedicated to short barreled .38 SPL revolvers. According to Speer, the 110 Gold Dot jhp is the...
Forum: Our Town
I hear you... my authorized, usable amateur radio frequencies have been slowly eroded over the last few decades in order to accommodate the growth in wireless technologies (never mind with digital...
Forum: Our Town
Those phones were still desirable until the cell systems went fully digital... they had a full 5W output compared to the more compact, digital phones that put out about 0.6W.
The old analog bricks...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I got that real quick... but I had also just broke down a bunch of pure lead into the same smaller ingots. It seems that it held noticeably more lead than alloy.
It’s got me thinking that it would...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I am new to mixing lead alloy. In the past I poured fishing jigs, sinkers and the odd pure lead balls for BP shooting.
Today I dove into the deep end and decided to fire up the Lee Pro 4-20 to mix...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I already have my old Lee press (in the photos I attached). She’s not opposed to having them around... just that we can use the table for multi-tasking and it doesn’t look like a Sanford and Son...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I will be adding shelving under the bench to hold the amazingly large collection of various pieces of mat-board she has. I figured I would brace that into the legs, adding to the stability/strength...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
First, any advice or recommendations are welcome in this project
I am just getting back into reloading and rescued a 36” tall kitchen table from the curb. My better half approved as she also wants...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I printed mine on my 3D printer. I need to get the adhesive LEDs to mount to it and decide if I want to wire it for AC or DC use.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
If you have any soft lead you can powder coat them and shoot them pretty darn fast, pretty much "j-word" velocities. Another option is to buy a bulk of alloy the hardness you are looking for from a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Without going overboard... an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Right now I rent and can’t permanently install stuff. I have a garage that will be a temporary lead station, as in a...
I have two new, multiple-cavity molds, a Lee and MP mold. The Lee is aluminum and the MP is brass.
I’ve ready many like to clean the molds with white gas (Coleman fuel) or mineral spirits... or...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Rotometals also sells a 5 lbs bar of 30%-Antimony, 70%-Lead for $27... so “salvaging” an accidental purchase is very easy?
I also have pure leas, because I cast for BP also. But I need to allot some...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Ryan recommended adding plumbers solder to the pure lead... which is a viable option if the correct alloy is available.
At least one company makes a ti-antimony alloy for plumbing use...
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
Cheaper than the ammo or reloading company's expensive Chinese junk, produced in the next town over, sold with their logo glued to the tumbler.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
The big box stores’ hardwood is low grade... just like their pine.
If you look at either type of wood at a BBS and then compare it to the same species at a wood specialty store you will see the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Pine 2x2 is too soft and you may have difficulty finding good quality hardwood at a big box store. They generally only carry low grade wood. But getting a cheap piece of hardwood there to practice...
Forum: Helping Hands
Thank you everyone for reaching out. If you sent a PM I’ve responded. If you didn’t hear back then then digital gremlins ate them. If you will resend it I will respond.
I want everyone to know I’m...
Pan lubrication will let you use a harder wax if the Alox is too tacky after.
I would worry that during the second sizing step the “undersized” portion of the WC would allow the bullet to go out of alignment in the sizer and make the WC asymmetrical along it's axis.
Not...
Forum: Leverguns
I'm partial to 231... Which covers the first the three you list and I also shoot. The last two I don't shoot.
But a quick glance through the four reloading manuals I have makes me think it would...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
Get yourself a nice .36 caliber flintlock rifle/pistol set, a good round-ball mold and stock up on FF FFF and FFFF powders before those also disappear.
You will only have to worry about soft lead...
Forum: Our Town
Congratulations! Best advice I can give you is take your time and enjoy the change. It takes a while to adjust... But then you will know what you want to do with your new-found freedom.
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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 |