HF powders are coarse compared to other brands.
Wich is why you get excellent. Coverage with espc method and not so good with others.
But il like smoke es carolina blue. For shake n bake.
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I myself just did a couple hundred 40 cal with smokes carolina blue. It really does lay down a nice coat with shake and bake.
well before noon is after midnight :lol:
I do face North too hmmm [pursing lips] but the door to the oven is facing south.
Hmm reading through what I tagged on here it appears I need to go buy some more nitrile gloves. I'd forgotten how much easier that was than using tweezers.
I guess one of the downsides of bulk processing everything is by the time I need more I've forgotten my own techniques again.
I gotta agree that HF powder is not as good as what Smoke sold me. It works OK but does not cover as well as Smoke's PC. I made up some of both and I expect not to see much difference in the accuracy department between the two. In either case I expect to spring for at least two pounds of Smoke's Carolina Blue. I had a '52 Desoto in that color which I loved. It was a beast of a car with the original Hemi V-8 and built like a tank.
My Dad bought it new in '51 and sold it to me in '63. It came with 275K miles on it and I ran it around for another 50K miles before I sold it to a friend who modified it into a dirt track racer. It won quite a few races but was finally sacrificed during a mammoth demolition derby. Then he saved the engine and modified it for use as a farm tractor engine and it is still alive and working on the farm to this day. Talk about getting bang for a buck!
As for gas checks, it depends on the mold. A small shank get PC before and a proper sized shank gets the gas check first.
Acronyms should be identified at the first part of the story, then everyone knows what it is when used throughout the rest of the story. (According to my English Teacher.) LOL
ACRONYMS a PROBLEM ? . . . try this . . . This may help...still some are missing though...
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?107406-Abbreviations-Acronyms-As-Used-on-This-Forum
I've read shorter tax codes than that poll! think of how many boolits you could of cast,sized, powdercoated,sized loaded and shot. I better plan a shooting day for us to get your mind on SHOOTING!
Good lord! There are some complications to this whole thing... I'm just gonna keep it simple and make pretty boolits.
This poll just saved me a lot of reading!!!
PC it is!!!
Just one question,,,well, for now,,,When sizing the bullet after PC does it have to be done in a push thru style sizer? Can I just use the lubrisizer I have without the lube?
YEPPERS...You sure can!
And...if anyone mentions an 'Upside down sizing press'...don't believe them! . . . :bigsmyl2:
I use my lyman sizer and removed the center and the levers arm what ever you want to call them so the bullets fall out the bottom. I like the ideal of the lee push threw dies mainly because I want some of the punches for other projects lol.
Thanks for the poll. Did my first casting in 20 years last week. Have a few questions but this helps a lot with PC.
There were no questions about whether and when I heat treat. I do. Before tumbling and baking. I tested a bunch heat treated after coating, and found no measurable difference. My coating process does not seem to lose BHN due to annealing. If I were sizing a bullet substantially, I would heat treat due to work softening after the sizing.
Also, I size, IF NECESSARY. So generally, .312 rifle bullets become .309. Pistol bullets may be loaded as cast, or sized depending on the repeatability of diameter, and fit to the particular purpose.