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I hope not!

It lasted 8 years and a few thousand round ball and .38-55 boolits and I just bought another one for $3..... Geez copper stuff has gotten pricey.

A cast ladle would be nice. But...

.... molten lead is corrosive to copper?

About 8 years ago I made the side pour ladle shown in the pics below from a 1" copper end cap and a piece of steel flat stock for the handle. A few hours...

Pricey? I suppose. But a quick look shows that they are on par price wise with Ruger No.1's. And it's nice to have the option from the standpoint of appearance and functional feel.

My club has an indoor range with sand collectors below angled armor steel baffles. I snagged a sample of it one day and separated the lumps from the sand and lead dust. Obviously due to striking...

I keep the mold sitting on top of a piece of thin stainless that I use for a cover while the temp comes up. Plus the frosted appearance stayed consistent warm mold or not. I was also pushing the...

All the strips I've got are wrapped rather thoroughly in brown paper with generous fiber reinforced paper tape. And the wrapping and tape work is very consistent. So I'm thinking it's new stock...

Another 38-55 guy here.

Be careful when calling out the chamber and casing lengths. Starline carries two lengths for 38-55. I believe the longer is for the older Ballard single shot 38-55 and...

That's a very nice looker and will be superb with the new stock and rubbed oil finish. Sort of a shame not to let it bark now and then though. Some careful and considerate use at the trap range...

Kevin, I tried cleaning a piece of the strip and I have some pool grade hydrochloric on hand. Just left a nice clean surface. No fizzing or eating into the surface. It's like it removed a touch of...

OK, so I pulled out an open pack and a new pack and noticed something on the end of the new pack. I don't know why I didn't see this before.

So the printing on the ends says 4pt which would be...

454PB, it does in fact bend then snap abruptly.

It's also only .05" thick and edges are smooth. No lettering and I'd not expect any at that height So it's either material intended as spacers...

So I've got about 40 or 50 lbs I got for quite cheap of some sort of alloy that was said to be linotype alloy. The alloy is in long strips 24"long by 3/4" wide by .050 thick and wrapped about 20 at...

Either way you're lucky. A 16" Rossi I found early on would only hold 9 1/2 rounds of .357. The store guy checked it for me. So I had to go with the 20" model for my cowboy action shooting. That...

Dekker, I've been loading a fair bit of .44-40 over the last couple of years. Most of it in black powder or more recently in one of the substitutes called Jim Shockey's Yukon Gold.

With proper...

Going back to the picture in post #10 of the round pushed into the chamber then extracted I have to wonder about the bullet size. The lead is pushed back as a smooth collar all around the nose of...

303 and the rest of you. I'll post up some pics in a few days. When you asked for pics I was just starting to make a sizing die. But then a buddy dropped by and got me to make a part for his S&W...

Samari46, I found that same stuff about a year and a bit back at a local industrial supply place. I've used it for a few reloading die projects now and it's been really handy. Next up is to use it...

Overmax, more good reasoning. It'll be used in a single shot rifle so crimping isn't an issue. I do aim for a moderate neck tension just to give the powder a chance to get burning well before the...

Bruce, I'd be more than happy with a group like that. My bumped bullets produced a best group of only about 3 inches at 50 yards from a half dozen recipes for three powders and amounts. But it was...

303Guy, that's some primo advice on leaving some slight roughness on the mold. Thanks.

And it's not what you got it's what you do with it. Often a lot of work arounds can be used to get the...

303Guy, I've already made a few different neck expanding and flaring inserts to fit in my powder drop die. So that doesn't scare me at all. But it's a good point that all of this goes hand in hand....

Some progress but no shooting report yet. I paper patched a couple of .376 bullets and it's sitting at around .389 or so now before being final sized. Just raw printer paper wet wrapped and shrunk...

Back story........ I'm trying to find the right boolit for a Uberti 1885 rifle. I've slugged the bore and it looks like the groove diameter is roughly .378 to .379 depending on where I measure.

I...

I had one up this way with the wood stocks and "only" a 15" barrel. Down your way it would have been an SBR. But up here it was just a "regular" rifle even with the short barrel.

You are 110%...

Which would make it REALLY fun for the melt :D

Rogerdat (love the username!) I'm on it for the turkey fryer burner. One of those is exactly what I've got my eyes peeled for.

And yeah,...