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It's not my computer. To verify, I browsed to this forum today on a different computer that I hardly ever use, a linux laptop running a brand new install of Opera. I also am on a completely...

Lately, I've been getting warnings from my browser and/or firewall about malware being distributed by the CastBoolits.Gunloads.Com site. Especially when I click on a Google search link that ends up...

Sorry to resurrect and old thread, but you can also buy odd sized resizing dies at Buffalo Arms.

Well, tried the linotype versions today both water quenched and air cooled. They shot even worse than the water quenched hardball.

Also tried to seat some to the max allowable length but they...

I slugged my Ruger Guide Gun rifle recently. Groove came out .308 or .3085, IIRC.

Tested it a few weeks ago with some hand-loaded Hornady #3090 220 grain round nose bullets. They are 1.26 inches...

Yeah maybe those twist calculators are a bad idea for cast boolit work. I'm not sure I can safely get more velocity out of the .30-06 with that 260 grainer per QuickLoad, so I guess I'll save these...

Thanks folks for taking time to reply.

Have access to a huge bar of pure lead -- will try adding some of that to the hardcast alloy to soften it up.

I also wondered if I was pushing the bullet...

A few more things I'm going to try to get this boolit to work:

1. Seat farther forward so nose lightly engages the rifling. Add to wishlist: Hornady bullet seating depth gauge.
2. Load for 1500...

This is my first foray into casting my own boolits. Cast up a bunch of the Accurate Molds #31-260B (.300 bore ride instead of default .305) with 92-6-2 hardcast alloy, water quenched. Don't have a...