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  1. Rocker: I load 7 gr SR-4759 behind the Ideal...

    Rocker:

    I load 7 gr SR-4759 behind the Ideal 257420. I imagine a jacketed bullet of similar weight would do as well.

    Riceguy:

    I think you would be ahead by getting a new barrel in...
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    I treat aluminum moulds like nuclearcricket...

    I treat aluminum moulds like nuclearcricket describes. A thin layer of carbon, whether soot from a lighter or candle, or a spray-on mould prep composition, retards the heat transfer out of the mould...
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    Forum: Our Town

    I'm always amazed at the Stuff you manage to...

    I'm always amazed at the Stuff you manage to unearth on those eight little islands. I go all over the Southwest and can't find some of that Stuff.

    Your friend saved you the expense of buying a...
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    Harrell's Precision Reloader

    This one is kind of cute. Mostly aluminum construction; folds down reasonably flat, clamps to anything 4" thick or less and actually has compound leverage. Works with any snap-in shell holder and...
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    I read somewhere that when Winchester started...

    I read somewhere that when Winchester started making the 1890 pump .22, there were proposals to make a slightly larger version for the small rifle/pistol cartridges of the 73 and 92 models. The...
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    I had a Remington-Hepburn .38-40 that had a ring...

    I had a Remington-Hepburn .38-40 that had a ring and bulge about 4” from the muzzle. The rest of the rifling was pristine.

    I couldn’t get it to shoot for sour apples, whatever loads I tried. ...
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    That’s a good experiment. I’ve never taken the...

    That’s a good experiment.

    I’ve never taken the boolits out to measure, but I have a set of Lachmiller dies in .44 Spl that undersizes the shells enough so that when the 0.430” sized boolits are...
  8. Rifle and Handloader used to be interesting...

    Rifle and Handloader used to be interesting because they allowed a lot of amateur experimenters to send in articles for publication. (Sort of like what’s done in forums On Line now.) Under Scovill,...
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    Forum: Cast Boolits

    Occasionally, for no obvious reason, smokeless...

    Occasionally, for no obvious reason, smokeless powder starts to decompose (or, to be more accurate, the natural tendency of the nitroester groups on the cellulose to come off and begin to attack the...
  10. Green Mountain still advertises them. I think...

    Green Mountain still advertises them. I think they have a 16” rifling twist, versus the 19” twist of the Shiloh barrels.

    On the Historic Shooting Forum, the late, great Distant Thunder wrote up a...
  11. I would imagine that there are complexing agents...

    I would imagine that there are complexing agents in most of these new cleaners that will pick ferric and ferrous ions off metal surfaces without dissolving the base metal. Of course, bluing and the...
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    Over decades of scrounging and accumulating...

    Over decades of scrounging and accumulating boolit moulds, I see only very occasional Modern-Bond mould blocks without their handles, and only a couple times have I seen Modern-Bond handles without...
  13. Forum: Leverguns

    I recall that Harvey Donaldson wrote once that it...

    I recall that Harvey Donaldson wrote once that it was his suggestion that goaded Winchester into producing the .32 Special chambering, since the tapered .32-40 case wasn’t as efficient with the...
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    I wrote up how I made some .44-77 shells from...

    I wrote up how I made some .44-77 shells from .348 Winchester in the “Case Forming” section here.

    A fair amount of work, but the results are certifiably Cool. Also, once made, if blackpowder...
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    I started my shotshell reloading with a Vandalia...

    I started my shotshell reloading with a Vandalia press. It had the attachments for all three gauges but I only used the 16 gauge. I wrote the American Rifleman asking about it and the reply...
  16. Forum: Leverguns

    M. L. McPherson’s Accurizing the Factory Rifle...

    M. L. McPherson’s Accurizing the Factory Rifle has a lot of tips on bedding, relieving, stock-bolt installation and other methods of correcting accuracy problems in lever-action, two-piece stock...
  17. Wonder How This Would Work on a Brass Case?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRuKKchj7sk

    Properly set up, it might eliminate the need to turn off the swaged donut around the base when doing "extreme" case forming. That extra material could...
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    Winchester stopped listing loading tools in their...

    Winchester stopped listing loading tools in their 1914 catalog.

    When smokeless powder started taking over, people were using the old black powder measures for the newfangled propellants. There...
  19. I have a replica 1890 Police in .44-40. It only...

    I have a replica 1890 Police in .44-40. It only seems to shoot one load really accurately, requiring the Ideal 42798 hollow point. Cartridge length and crimp are critical; there isn’t the extra...
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    The setup pictured is a cap&ball version of the...

    The setup pictured is a cap&ball version of the Colt SAA that Uberti allegedly made for the English Cowboy Action shooters when their cartridge guns were banned. Obviously, with no loading lever on...
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    The #3s and #10s looked the same externally:...

    The #3s and #10s looked the same externally: tongs with no mould on the end and an expander/decapper, muzzle resizer, adjustable (or double-adjustable) seating chamber and powder scoop. The mould...
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    I found something called “Neenah Paper UV Ultra...

    I found something called “Neenah Paper UV Ultra II Translucent Papers,” 8.5 M weight (whatever that means) number 01379 from www.neenahpaper.com

    It measures ~0.0021” by my micrometer (using the...
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    I have a floor Model Chinese drill press with a...

    I have a floor Model Chinese drill press with a Chinese X-Y table bolted to the moveable platform. As long as the Forster jig is level, I have had no trouble drilling and tapping holes for scope...
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    I use 9 gr of Unique with cream-of-wheat and a...

    I use 9 gr of Unique with cream-of-wheat and a wax plug to blow .30-30 shells out straight for my .38-55 shotgun. It looks like W-244 is close on the burn rate chart; if anything, a little slower.
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    Fiocchi sells (or used to, anyway) 5.5 mm...

    Fiocchi sells (or used to, anyway) 5.5 mm Velo-Dog cartridges, which were a .22 centerfire of about .22 LR power with a metal jacketed bullet. They seem to be more or less equivalent to the...
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Abbreviations used in Reloading

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