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Infractions expire, but are a permanent record.

Sort of like traffic tickets that you settled or paid.

sent to completed deals

Ed.

All other things being OK:
If the case gauge is at the smaller end of the tolerances for them, and the die is at the larger end-
That cause cause the issue, but the case would still fit the...

Minimum wage sort of keeps up with inflation.

In 1970, min. wage was $1.15. At 16, I was washing dishes for $1.25 a hour.
Gas was right at the mid 30 cents a gallon.
Of what I got to keep of...

In the old days, I'd buy a 1lb. roll of 95/5 for 7-8 bucks for a big plumbing project,
then toss what was left in the buckets with all the other 'castables'.

Then didn't need any for several...

Good one!

What are those things? I've never seen anything like them.

Like all the professional & commercial cooks--- I really prefer a gas stove.

Our house now is all electric, with a flat top stove on a island.
When I dropped a bacon press and shattered it--- I...

It's a 'make your best deal' sort of thing and prices float up & down like gasoline or any other commodity.
The scrap yards I used to deal with would sell Lead, or anything else for 1 & 1/2 times...

Most young people don't realize that staying with one company for a long, long time is not the path to the big bucks.
It can happen, but usually not.

For most people to get noticeably more money-...

A few years ago, while I was still working we all went in and got our evaluations and raises.

I did real well, and others not so much.
The owner of the company predicted some of the others...

That's a great project.
However:
I do have concerns about the clean and open surfaces on your bench.
I'm not sure if it's a violation of Man Law, but I do know Nature hates a vacuum and tries to...

I wouldn't carve on the original recoil spring, however-
If you can find them, you might could get a new spring or two and start shortening them a little at a time
so the bolt will come back all...

I wouldn't bother.
It's like putting a glass of dirty water into a gallon of fresh water....
Now you have a little more than a gallon of dirty water.

Anything will work.
I use a big screw driver with a plastic handle.
It doubles as a pot stirring stick too. Going back & forth with it,,,, you'll only forget to wear gloves once.

I've wondered about that too.
My guess is the bullet is traveling so fast, and is too hard or too pointed so it can't/doesn't expand fast enough.
It goes in & out before it can expand unless it hit...

I do. I'm not sure why, but both times I had to buy new brass, I sized it.
Back in my .50BMG days, I bought a lot of GI pull down.
I sized it too.

Anything at the auto parts store that says 'polish', 'rubbing compound', or even 'cleaner wax'
on the label will do fine. They all will have some amount of super fine abrasive/rubbing compound.
...

That is a valid concern. Since nobody wants you to shoot your eye out---
When in doubt: Ya probably should send your problem children to one of us older guys for proper disposal.

Once upon a...

I'm a big fan of IMR 3031 and 4198 for cast in a few medium size cases, like .30-30 and .308, .30-06, even .45-70.
I run on the heavy side of boolits, and at about the middle of published data in...

The factory's annealing process probably wasn't adjusted right on that run.

In modern manufacturing, if something isn't right, you don't make a thousand mistakes---
you make one mistake a...

In the old days, I had a few.
That ignore list kept me out of trouble more than once.:bigsmyl2:

It'll be in tiny print, but sometimes there is a copyright date typed on packaging labels.
They use one label for several years, but if there is a date, it'll tell you the era it was printed.

I used walnut media in the old days and noticed it was a hard particle and had rather sharp edges.
It left my brass with that dull finish. I figure the sharp edges of the media particles made tiny,...

They're fine.
The more aggressive and coarser media does that.
A finer one like ground corncob works slower but it leaves the more shiny finish.

After working with and around heavy machinery, airplanes, and various other things that could hurt me:
I've found that to be very good advice myself.