imr powder is very expensive up here in nova scotia canada. new inventory is running 100$ a lb and primers are rather expensive also.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
imr powder is very expensive up here in nova scotia canada. new inventory is running 100$ a lb and primers are rather expensive also.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
in my area the fishing boats take the zincs on the boats every year and i can get 100lbs with no problem. the only problem is that the local dealer will only give you 40 cents a lb, what a ripoff. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I use lyman steel all the time and have no problems, once the mold gets up to temp you are good to go. as soon as it cools off I use engine oil on it and put them back into the snap box I have...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I sort a lyman 314299 to collect match bullets and load them up for hunting and can get 1 inch groups at 80 yards. they are moving about 1800+-. I shoot all my deer in the head and never miss. the...
Forum: Gas Checks
they are good quality and fast shipping, the cost of 30 cal checks have gotten a bit expensive for me so I make my own gas checks and have lots to use. I see no difference between the al or copper,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
59 started casting at 30 to keep costs down and now I cast for all my guns. mg's can take a lot of ammo to keep going at the range, my mg34 can gobble up lots of ammo when I hold the trigger on a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
our commie government in Canada are trying to take all our guns from us and pay us nothing for them. I am a 12-3 collector and have several mg in my collection and my days of keeping them are...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I have used lyman molds for many years with no problems. get the mold up to temp and cast, the first 10 or so are bad but once the mold heats up good the bullets come out very uniform. they do get...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
we are lucky as we have no dangerous snakes in nova scotia. I have lots of snakes around my home, green, black and brown garder snakes. they eat up all the bugs in my yard and garden and make life...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
one thing I can say is that you do not have to worry about anyone walking in your yard and stealing your lead, if anyone picks up the rounds of lead you are not going to stop them. :)
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I checked out the lead on ebay and found that the stuff is very pricey. I buy all I want in my area for 50 cents a lb, soft and ww.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
ww are starting to get hard to find in Canada also. there are a few used ones that can be found but ordering new ones are getting hard to buy. it will only be a matter of time before they all get...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
in my area ww are not a problem to get or buy cheap with very little junk. soft lead is the problem as I have to work a bit harder to get the stuff for making ml bullets. the ml season starts in 2...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I purchased a piece of melted civil war lead from ebay and I am going to melt I down and make some hollow base minnies for deer hunting. I have plenty of soft lead but I want some real civil war...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
using pure ww the bullets will not expand so you have to aim at vital areas and drop them on the spot. the first deer I shot with my 303 cast the bullet went in and hit the heart and went out the...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
the worst thing about ww bullets is that they do not expand very well on deer unless you hit a bone. I shot a small 80 lb deer through the heart and it ran but it dropped 30yds away. the bullet...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
when I pick up my free ww from my auto repair shops I tell them to put the valve stems in the bucket as I burn the bubber off and sell the brass for extra profit.
up here in Canada S&B is very poor brass to reload. I put this stuff in the brass scrap bucket any shell that resizes hard is junked also. I reload 7.62x54r for a friend and I find the primer...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I use the cast iron lyman and rcbs molds. you do not have to bang on the mold to get the bars out and they have not failed me yet and I have poured two thousand pounds with mine.
Forum: Our Town
with the millions of 22 guns out there in the world someone will always be making the rounds as there are to be $ made selling them.
Forum: Swappin & Sellin
I have some brass to sell and would like to sell it to the usa. is this possible without getting in trouble with the jokers at homeland security?
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
some years back I tried to deal with cabelas in the usa and everything I needed they said that they could not send to Canada. the items were allowed into Canada but they would not sell them to me. ...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
the ww lead supply in the usa will only get worse as time goes on but up here in Canada we still have a good supply on hand and getting it from scrap yards or free is not a problem in nova scotia.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
and I thought I was doing good with 1000lbs of ww in bars, I am not even in the race on this site.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I am going to cast a few of these bullets for our muzzle hunting season and I am having a hard time finding any good data for it. does anyone out there have a nice loads for this bullet. I will be...
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 |