smlekid
02-14-2010, 07:17 AM
Well I think I have cured my tumbling problem it appears my bullets were a little soft I put them back into the pot added some lino and the tumbling doesn't seem to be happening now
I tried all the suggestion in my last post and nothing seemed to work I tried some commercial cast boolits and they didn't tumble I could scratch my boolits with my thumb nail but the commercial ones my thumb just slid off
I'm now running them with 4.1gr of Universal sized to .357" (356" bore) and seated to 1.090" in Winchester cases and primers I only put around 30 through it today to test the load but didn't have a single keyhole
adding the Lino appears to have dropped the boolit weight down about 4grs (a lee 124 TCTL dropping at 120gr with this alloy) I added about 3Ib's of Lino to 7Ibs of the original boolits I let them sit for about a week before I sized them and relubed with LLA
I tried all the suggestion in my last post and nothing seemed to work I tried some commercial cast boolits and they didn't tumble I could scratch my boolits with my thumb nail but the commercial ones my thumb just slid off
I'm now running them with 4.1gr of Universal sized to .357" (356" bore) and seated to 1.090" in Winchester cases and primers I only put around 30 through it today to test the load but didn't have a single keyhole
adding the Lino appears to have dropped the boolit weight down about 4grs (a lee 124 TCTL dropping at 120gr with this alloy) I added about 3Ib's of Lino to 7Ibs of the original boolits I let them sit for about a week before I sized them and relubed with LLA