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[Petander]

I think Old mate has environmental issues causing his velocity variations.

Too much beans does that to me. But I love english breakfast.

[Petander]

Got some soft (10-12 BHN) big bullets ready for 45-70 to try.

[hunter74]

Got some soft (10-12 BHN) big bullets ready for 45-70 to try.

At what velocity are you planning to launch them?

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[Petander]

At what velocity are you planning to launch them?

1650 fps. These are 465 grainers,I've been shooting these for 15 years - but never this soft. We'll see. This alloy is really tough and malleable. I wish I had a ton of wet newspapers to see what happens.

[TonyN]

Has Hi-Tek changed there formula in the Dark green metallic ? My first.batch was lighter and had a higher gloss to it. This new batch is a more darker less gloss and little color comes off but they pass both test. I'm liking this darker color. Just wondering if the formula was changed?

[Petander]

Here we go,565 grains @ 1670 fps Marlin SBL.

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I fired 20. Accuracy was good. Got some gray in the first dry patches when cleaning,no visible leading. Eliminator gave some gray as well but the third pass was clean.

Gonna shoot 50 rounds next time,I expected more leading with 10-12 BHN. Only got minor traces. Me happy, thanks Joe! This is TMG Gold with a hint of Red.

PS the New Blue would look great with this nickled brass... wink wink...

[Jatz357]

OK... here it is... The HITEK Blue.
Steel Blue....
Look bloody great in the daylight.
This pic doesn't do it Justice

Looks great, I bet the colour is awesome in daylight!

[Petander]

A very mild and accurate 200 grain 45ACP load here @ 820 fps. BHN 8 , Mihec. All clean.

STI works fine with mild loads,too.

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[dansedgli]

I'm gearing up to do my next loading session.

170kgs of lead collected from my range last week and my master caster should be automated by the weekend.



What size household ovens are you Australian guys using? I want to get a bigger one but can I power it with a 10 or 15 amp plug or will it not be powerful enough?

[Tazza]

I just run a free standing kitchen oven, no issues at all.

I'm interested in your automation, i hope you start a thread on what you did, looks interesting.

[Ausglock]

Any domestic over so long as it has the convection fan in the back wall with a circular heating element around it.

I have a 900mm wide oven and have tried it with 4 trays of 2.5KG on each. it will do it in 10.3 minutes, but there is a colour variation. I think the fan is not strong enough. The normal wall oven I use works fine and will bake 2 trays in 7 minutes.
Both are 15 AMP

[Petander]

Dang this Mihec 200 HP / Hi Tek TMG Gold/Red is very,very accurate. 900 fps,nice and easy. ES was 15 m/s for ten with old mixed brass.

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Barrel stays ridiculously clean. I'm still tweaking, looking for the optimal expander setting.

[Balta]

Trevor,
is this SWC made with MP Molds? or..Look great.

[Balta]

This is Me and My Mate, Tony.
We are Susan Island Bullets.
Based in Grafton NSW Australia.
Our bullets are used primarily by IPSC and ICORE shooters, With many Australian and World Champions using our Green Goodness.
We use Kryptonite Green Exclusivley in Australia.

Trevor,
is this SWC made with MP Molds? or..Look great.

[Ausglock]

Molds are Hardline from memory.. Sadly they no longer exist.
We have new ones from Tom at Accurate Molds.

[Petander]

More is more.

[Gremlin460]

Hmmmmmm Blood test came back today, I am still sitting at 7.5 Lead, same as last year. Doc wants it down around 5.
Make sure you guys use nitrile gloves on the raw cast. After coating they fine to handle bare handed.

Mike.

[Ausglock]

Get mine done next week.

[PAT303]

Still getting fantastic results with Hi-Tek, I mostly shoot service rifle these days with my 303's and my scores are consistently better compared to liquid lubes, the lack of greasy dies and guns is a nice bonus.

[PAT303]

I posted this down below, but I'm hoping the Hi-Tek crowd can chime in with some advice. I'm using Hi-Tek to coat some boolits for 303 Brit, and right now I'm using a mold design that has a gas check shank. I'm getting tired of playing around with the gas checks, and would like to move to a plain based design.

I know some people are saying PC acts like a gas check up to a certain velocity, and I'm wondering if Hi-Tek does the same. I'm only planning on pushing these boolits to around 2000 fps, and if I can get away with a coated plain based boolit and not have accuracy issues or fouling, I'd be happy

Where are you, Australia?.