As usual, Buckshot nailed it. HBWCs are the easy cheat. The skirts will flare to give a seal in the slightly larger diameter barrel. That'll get her shooting and give you an idea what weight you need...
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As usual, Buckshot nailed it. HBWCs are the easy cheat. The skirts will flare to give a seal in the slightly larger diameter barrel. That'll get her shooting and give you an idea what weight you need...
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We may be talking about different things. I get the light gray wash several posters have mentioned. It does not build up. It does not seem to affect accuracy. It does not reguire any special...
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Charlie, yes, use the data for regular WCs. The data for HBWCs is often a few tenths lighter. How you seat them is up to you. Flush seating works fine for me, but some pistols may prefer them...
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Get the best hearing protection money can buy and wear plugs under it.
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Yeah, lead will work at low pressures and velocities, but it's a lot easier to work with if you add a little tin. A pound of leadfree solder to 50 pounds of scrap is enough. That'll get you good...
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If you happen to have a .311 die around, skip the .313/.314 step, and go .311, then .309. Anything oily or greasy will lube them enough for that. I frequently use cooking spray.
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Unless you are shooting competitively with a match rifle, you are not going to find a difference between weighed and as-they-come. With a 180 grain .357 bullet, it's most unlikely that you are doing...
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I was young when I started if that counts?
That was 40 years ago, though. Most of us are older guys because casting takes some time. Time the younger guys don't have much of.
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Trail Boss is roughly equivalent to Red Dot so somewhere in the 5-10 grain range.
I've used .490 RBs forced through a .460 sizer 'cause that's what I had. They gave inch 25 yard groups. Another...
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Heavier bullets are easier to work with because you can get adequate blowback at reduced velocities which reduces or eliminates leading problems. When I was shooting class 3 stuff, we mostly used a...
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Nothing to it. No more problems than any other cast bullet project. I did my load workup in a scoped CZ 527 using waterquenced WW+2% GCed and sized in a .314 die which was very, very slightly larger...
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There was once a lube called Bullet Master. It was mostly moly-D in a single base epoxy resin carrier, and worked really well for high velocity rifle boolits. It was also a bear to apply and toxic...
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I solved the problem. I quit reading gun magazines and I quit shooting matches. These days I shoot in my back yard or I drive over to the range on a workday when it is near empty. Have more fun and...
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Montana, lapping out the Lee pushthroughs is a snap. Apply fine valve grinding compound to 4 or 5 cull bullets, run them through just like you were sizing. When the first one comes out the top, run...
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Folks, it ain't always the shank. GCs vary from lot to lot, too. I've had one box work perfectly and the next box be too tight.
I really like Beagle's suggestion. I'll have to try that the next...
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I use the two pot and custom dipper method. I get a lot of culls, but when I do it right, the bullets are seamless. Only the color shift shows they are made of two different alloys. Next time I do a...
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Longitudinal splits neat the base are very bad, Tell Remington about it. Maybe you'll get some replacement brass out of it.
Neck splits are very common and nothing to worry about, just toss them...
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As Rocky said, Lee does not generate their own data. They compile data supplied by cooperating powder makers. Lee does computer generate some data for oddball cartridges, and has a good deal of very...
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I'd check that scale.
I'd also check the distribution of weight. Are the weights all over the place or are just few bullets giving you that extreme spread with the majority clusterd in an...
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Yup, you're probably already casting 9mm. A few long nosed designs won't work, but a lot of 158 grain bullets will. Feeding is an individual matter. Try it and see. I'd leave the bullets at .358 if...
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Rocky, there are suitable pointed bullets for the .30-30, just not very many of them, and some have been discontinued, The Rem 125 Corelok works perfectly on deer at c. 2500 fps MV. So did the...
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Lead RN are OK in a tube mag. The Lee C312-155-2R is a bit more pointed that I would feel safe with.
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Shooter, one of the first mould group buys was for a .177 pellet mould. so we're OK with boolits for air guns or even sling shots.
Have you tried 000 buck in your 9mm air rifle? Hornady makes...
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I cast up a selection for fellow shooting a .45 cal air rifle. Got reports back for a while. Worked well enough so he took game with them. IIRC, he was getting about 650 fps with 185 to 200 grain...
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Wayne, conventional wisdom and my experience say you should be able to do that in one step with no loss of accuracy in normal rifles. A finely tuned benchrest rifle might show a difference, but few...
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 |