Pull a bullet and check your size again to make sure you aren't sizing the bullet back down with the case. I ran into this and had to change out the expander plug on my Lee 9mm die to a .38 s&w. ...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Pull a bullet and check your size again to make sure you aren't sizing the bullet back down with the case. I ran into this and had to change out the expander plug on my Lee 9mm die to a .38 s&w. ...
I'm looking at the 35-147Y mold from Accurate with the intention of Hi-Tek coating a pretty large run of bullets to feed my 3 gun and USPSA habit. Does anyone have any experience with that design? ...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
It's a standard lube groove mold.
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Barrel slugs at .3555 and the factory crimp die is knocking it back to .3560-.3565 from the
.3575 it started at.
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I an having problems with bullets tumbling from a Springfield xd 9mm. The bullets are Lee 120 TC ES powder coated harbor freight red and sized .357 with a Lee push through sizer. I am pretty sure I...
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My best friend's dad had one of those back in the day. He turned it into a rock crawler. They are an impressive machine. He could drive that thing places that you wouldn't think were possible. I...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I just realized that I had never updated this thread. I still don't know if it was the barrel or the powder coat that caused it, but Springfield made it right. They said send it in and they would...
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I was one of the guys that posted on here about having problems with the Harbor Freight matte black. After several thousand rounds through a Springfield XD 9mm the first .75" of the rifling was gone...
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Yep, bronze brush wrapped in copper scouring pad.
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It's going to be a fun test all right. When was the last time you had to burn up ammo just to get rid of it? I checked this afternoon and while it won't be winning any bench rest matches the wife...
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These rounds were all loaded with 3.9 grains of Winchester 231. Like I said above the bullets don't seem abrasive, but that doesn't change the fact that the barrel is ruined. I went after it again...
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I rubbed some of the loaded rounds against my finger and they sure don't seem abrasive. Not taking any hide off anyway.
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I've only bought two bottles of the black powder. The first one was when I bought my setup a little over a year and a half ago. No telling how long it set on the shelf before I bought it. The last...
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I've put several hundred strokes on this barrel with the brush wrapped so tight you could hardly start it and have seen no change in the appearance of the bore. I'm going to work on it some more...
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That and several thousand pounds of pressure.
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As far as I can tell the sizer is fine.
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I was using the electrostatic method with the harbor freight gun, and sizing to .357 with a Lee push through sizer.
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No, I have two of the same pistol. Mine is in semi-retirement since I started shooting the STI. I pulled it out to compare and it is an obvious difference. I would try to put up a picture but...
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I have been casting for awhile and powder coating for about a year and a half. I started out with the hf red with okay results and when that ran out went to the hf matte black. That is turning out...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I have to side with the old welder. I just wear a long sleeve denim shirt, jeans and good boots. I also wear good fitting leather gloves for both welding and casting/smelting. They give good...
Forum: Our Town
My uncle passed away several years ago. He was medically retired from the Navy after 23 years as a Lt. JG. We knew that he had been in Vietnam as an elisted man and had later gone to OCS. A few...
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Speaking from painful experience, stay a way from the electronic locks. I had to pay to have one drilled and a new lock installed after stupidly changing the battery with the door closed. My father...
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I picked up a couple of pounds of 231 a couple of weeks ago. I sat up so fast in the chair when I saw it on their facebook page my wife thought I was hurt. It was at my local gun shop that was nice...
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I really enjoyed your last book. I bet this one will be just as good. I will be ordering the Kindle edition as soon as I get out where I have service on my phone. Thanks!
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"The advantgage is you can put down pressure on the auger with the loader frame."
That is the biggest disadvantage to using an auger on the back of a tractor. If you are going to have to buy...
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