Same here, but I also have the RN but it is a 2 cavity. It performs just as well and I really like it, too.
Type: Posts; User: Charlie Horse
Forum: Cast Boolits
Same here, but I also have the RN but it is a 2 cavity. It performs just as well and I really like it, too.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Dead-soft Lee 100 grain flat nose boolits will catch and deform with some regularity on the feed ramp of my 380.
These kind:
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Forum: Cast Boolits
I've done this for years, but added salt, also. It works instantly. Is there a reason people don't use salt?
Forum: Cast Boolits
Shot this today at 50 yards. Very happy with it. Lee 55 grain. Sized some upside down through the push die. Upside down was definitely better than right side up. No gas check. 700X powder. ~1"...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
We have a "Free to Good Home" table at my club. One day there were enough BP projectiles in odd boxes to fill 1-1/2 milk jugs (once I got them home). It was my lucky day. They couldn't have been...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Thank you I like this idea very much. Going to try it with some Lee 55 grain 22's.
Forum: Casting Equipment
Here's my small scale set-up. It works very well. Maybe you could do this on a larger scale. The hood works way better than I had hoped.
People say not to smelt in your production pot but I do it...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Too bad someone doesn't make an affordable 357 bolt action rifle. I ain't payin' $1400 for one.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I'll never forget the time I watched a crow scrounging stale burger buns out of the trash. It took the pieces over to a mud puddle and dunked them before eating, just like you would dunk a donut in...
I've never had any problems doing this:
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In fact, results have been pretty decent, considering I hate buckhorn sights. (I've pushed them harder.)
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Forum: Hunting with CB's
I wish I could find a TC barrel chambered for shorts. What length is yours? Would a 14" be quiet, do you think?
Mash foil into your spare Lee dippers with the appropriate sized nail head.
Easy-peasy and very adjustable.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Yes. Hell yes.
Tarnished but not dirty.
There's a difference. Soot is OK. Grit is not.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Thanks for posting this. Sorry about your gun. I wish I had a borescope.
My first CF rifle was a Savage 340 22 Hornet. That thing was a tack driver with any and everything I put in it. My 22...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Here's what some of the stuff I use looks like. It is full of pulverized bowling pins. And oh, it is a delight to melt. I have to make sure the wind is blowing away from the neighbors. But you do...
Forum: Our Town
Our library system has weekly book sales. You cannot believe the beautiful books they (try to) sell for a song. Old books. Picture books. Gorgeous coffee table books, classics. You name it. ...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
From now on I am going to pour my range scrap ingots before they get anywhere near the melting point of zinc. I might not even flux. Just skim. Heat from the burning wax might melt any zinc...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
A pound of Unique and 1000 CCI SP primers for $110 OTD.
You need to try one that's lived on field corn and acorns.:wink:
Forum: Special Projects
That sounds like an educational project.
Forum: Factory Rifles
I have a Rossi 357. It's fun, and useful. But I used to have a Marlin 45 Camp Carbine and I really miss it.
I would get the 9mm PPC boolit hose.
I keep trying to get the Rossi to do things it...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I used some ancient, unknown powder that was given me and it worked fine. It was in plastic bags.
I funnel my powder into plastic water bottles. They seal well and it is very easy to shake out a...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Do you guys put those silicon ice cube trays in the oven????
Forum: Hunting with CB's
"Hansen’s disease does not spread easily from person to person. You cannot get leprosy through casual contact such as shaking hands, sitting next to, or talking to someone who has the disease....
I'm thinking of using a piece of wood or anything similar and drilling a small, blind hole in the end of it. It would be easy to strike the powder off level with your finger.
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 |