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Ignore uscra112's advice about Stevens 44's at your peril.

I have a 44 chambered for .22WCF and even though a .22 Hornet round will chamber and fire I refuse to do so. I feed it soft 45 and 40...

Hornady makes a hydraulic case forming die. Not particularly cheap but it works a treat for making my K-Hornet brass. Put a Hornet case in the die and whack the piston with a lead hammer and the...

Sorry for the delay. I weeded a bunch of .228 bullets out and am sending a PM.

Since we're on the subject of small (but serious) cannons:

Small one I built a couple years ago. Bronze, 13" including cascabel, .625 bore. Ton of fun using it to snipe crab buoys in the...

Looking good! Small cannons rock. Bore diameter?

I too have utilized old Lyman/Ideal moulds which often drop oversize bullets. My .22WCF has a somewhat tight throat of a fat .225". An old Ideal PB mould, #225230 drops a 1/20 alloy bullet at .226...

I'll take it. PM inbound.

I have thousands of .228 High Power bullets. Let me look at them and consider if I can part with any, no guarantees. I've been a devotee of that cartridge for quite a while. As for brass, you're way...

Having owned around a dozen Martinis in different flavors over the years, the three I have now are the ones that "stuck to the wall": BSA 12 in absolutely mint condition, BSA International MkI (the...

I'll take the 452-200. PM inbound.

For all my .32 loading, including .32-20's, I automatically skip the expander dies that are in my die sets and go straight to the RCBS neck expander die with its simple straight section on the...

All molds accounted for. Thanks fellas.

#2 (358156) still available. I'll cover postage in order to wrap this up.

#1 spoken for. Thank you.

#3 and #4 are now spoken for.

WTS the following molds. All are in their original 50 year old boxes. None have been cast with. All came to me from a 94 year old gentleman who bought them "back in the day" with the intention of...

No point in slugging the bore. Do a chamber casting to include an inch of bore. It'll tell you all you need to know - primarily throat diameter which indicates bullet diameter, and you can mic the...

Title says it all. I have a M98 pre-war commercial Mauser bottom metal (hinged floor plate) with a snappy set of double set triggers in it. Need the sear kicker to go with it. Would be simple to make...

Cheap faux finishes have abounded on el-cheapo hardware store-grade guns since forever. No telling what H&R used at any given time in the 60's-70's. I'll never forget when, as a kid on a mission to...

Well, I guess I know what I'll be doing in my lathe tomorrow!

Made a couple miniature cannons so far:

https://i.imgur.com/Hl4e7sfl.jpg
14" barrel, .625" bore, high-tensile bronze, 1 5/8"...

1935-vintage Colt Officer's Model .22. Minty condition and came with a Colt factory letter stating the date, etc., and who the consignee was (Bekeart, in San Francisco) and the buyer (a Captain Frank...

Indeed, and it's that little bit of homework required on the part of cast bullet shooters that most newbies/neophytes/lazies disregard (present company excluded of course!), and then wail about poor...

Therein lies the best suggestion, IMO. If I could afford a couple thousand bucks to prompt them to make a run of 10K .32-20 cases I would, and sell the 9500 I don't need/want at cost to make it...

I'm amused to finally meet someone who actually owns one of these things and wants to shoot it! I've seen them languish on the discount racks in gunshops for years because nobody wanted such a short...

If your 311284 bullet has a bore riding nose section too small in diameter to resist the rifling, I submit that you need a different mold. You should get definite imprints of the rifling on the nose....