I have several rifles that I use with lead and one is a 45-70. I was just told that Lyman has a neck expander die with a little extra piece at the top of the expander that will bell the case mouth so...
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have several rifles that I use with lead and one is a 45-70. I was just told that Lyman has a neck expander die with a little extra piece at the top of the expander that will bell the case mouth so...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
OK, this is what I did -- I kind of followed the path you fellows here were on but since these rounds (plain Aguila Colibri) are very under powered I did what I could with what I had on hand. What...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
I have found myself in a bit of a bit of a quandry. I am disabled and can't travel to a range so I set up a small shooting range in my back yard. After doing this I ran into a real problem with the...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
You have some beautiful rifles there. I could never get close because I would drool all over them and ruin their finish. I got a CPA Stevens in 40-65 for BPCR matches many years ago and about the...
Forum: Black Powder Substitutes
Thanks for that -- I forgot there would be Hazmat added and the price us up there but for one jug I think I could live with it.
Update: I tried to order it and even though it showed in stock it...
Forum: Black Powder Substitutes
I read someplace that it was discontinued but I was wondering why? I still see their Blue MZ 50gr pellets for sale.
Forum: Black Powder Substitutes
I have not gotten into black powder due to a breathing problem but I decided I need to at least try it. I have two nice 43 Mausers and I read that this Alliant Black MZ is not corrosive so I was...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I had figured that since the rims are centered in the bolt face and fit well so it would keep the case centered. If you have used the "O" ring to center the case in the chamber what size O ring was...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I went with the 45-90 case that I first trimmed to length and then trimmed the edge of the rim so it was the same diameter as the original ammo base or check the fit in the 71/84 Mauser bolt face. I...
Forum: Military Rifles
I've been using 45-90 brass with the rim turned down and the case shortened a hair. I use AA5744 at 28gr with 375gr bullet. Accurate said I could actually go to (MAX) 30gr but the recoil now is...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Unique is the only really fast powder I have and it seems to work very well for me. if I put each cartridge together paying attention to all the details they seem to work well. My manual AR still has...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I wondered about the BR-4 primers so I sent an e-mail to CCI about it and I got this reply;
"Charlie, you are almost right. The BR-4 primer is a standard primer, thrown to a tighter tolerance, but...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I built a second manual AR upper to see if I could get any accuracy using .223 brass and light powder charges. I did a bunch of loads using cast boolits and also did some rounds using 40 grain V-max...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Does Gator Checks advertise any place here or on the web?
Forum: Cast Boolits
I didn't mean anything bad about Sage's aluminum checks but I was hoping for some feedback about them and that's just what you did. I don't cast but get my boolits from a really good fellow so I need...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I thought the price of copper checks was a bit high so I got some aluminum checks -- just to try them. I use a Lee boolit sizer and I'm doing .225 size bullets and I had no problem with the copper...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I checked into doing really reduced loads for the rifle cartridges (both .222 and .223) and all the info I found said the really fast powders kind of explode to start with and are not a problem as...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Looks like you are trying to find the same thing I am. I have a savage bolt action in 222 and I did try a long time back but I had a problem getting the cast boolits to feed well out of the savage...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Guess I have to back and buy some standard small rilfe primers. I was told that the BR-4's were just more consistent primers as compared to standard small rifle primers.
Forum: Cast Boolits
It wasn't till it was mentioned here that the magnum primers might dislodge the bullets that I remember reading about guys having that problem. I don't have any pistol primers but I do have bench...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I got some nice little 45gr cast boolits from (I believe) Montana Bullets that were presized to .224 and lubed. I'll try some of those bullets also plus I have H110. I just FL sized a bunch of .223...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Darn, I didn't think about that happening but it's a possibility. I've got CCI BR-4 primers that I've been using in the accurate copper jacketed bullets -- I'll try them.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I'll try sorting the boolits by weight and see how that does. The reason I went with Unique is I had some that won't work with much else that I have and I use light powder charges in the cases...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I had to make my setup. I think DPMS makes a special bolt/carrier and upper receiver that has the charging handle on the right hand side but it cost a really good bit. I call my setup a test mule...
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 |