Just spitballing... maybe change up the dies your using. 357 doesn't lead, 38 Special does. If you don't have a buddies dies to borrow, maybe load up a couple cylinders worth of 38s with just the...
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Just spitballing... maybe change up the dies your using. 357 doesn't lead, 38 Special does. If you don't have a buddies dies to borrow, maybe load up a couple cylinders worth of 38s with just the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
About that nose dive...had same issue with Wilson Combat mags. I had originally thought it was COAL issue. Turns out the magazine was the problem. Shimmed the polymer insert and so far no more...
Shimming the magazine seems to have cleared up the problem. Shot 60 plus rounds today and yesterday without a hiccup. Tested the extractor as well using the shake test with dummy and fired case. ...
Excellent Texas[emoji1787]. My PC is greener. Makes them easily separated from rubber mulch I usually shoot them into for a bullet...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have put these in the cart a few times. Never bought them. Bought several sets of steel dies off ebay. Tinkered with them. Never stuck with it due to the lubing and wiping. I decided to try...
Think I might have figured it out. There is a polymer shim spacer the entire length of the backside of the magazine. When the cartridge would hit the dimple on magazine follower, the follower would...
I will definitely keep that in mind. I will wait till the chip Mccormick mags arrive and see how the stack looks and cycles. Maybe someone will see this post that has the same magazine and a set of...
Having a heck of a time figuring out a COAL for this bullet and gun. Mihec 357 125 TC. Have tried 1.150, 1.145, 1.140, 1.130, 1.125, 1.120, 1.115 and 1.110. Belling removed .375 to .378, tried...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Carbide has the ability to squeeze some oversize, soft alloy, or thick walked cartridges or Bullets. If the picture comes through carbide has B8 stamped and the Collet has J1 stamped. I prefer the...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have several dies to choose from. Pacific, Redding regular roll crimp from three for set, Redding profile, both Lee Collet and Carbide, and a Hornady. With trimmed brass the Profile crimp does a...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Top row second from the left, you can make out the faint out line of the ring around the base of the bullet. Once again, a similar example of this process shot patterns at twenty yards benched when...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I am wondering has anyone casted, PC, and then sized and raised a visible ridge around the entire circumference of the bullet base? My PC is definitely cured and sized bullets show no trauma from...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I think it's actually artist pencils. Stadler Mars maybe, blue and silver box. Excellent video on you tube on a procedure that is definitely repeatable in results. Actually a lot easier than the...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Great mold rebuild parts as well. Excellent handles.
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Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Kent Rollins has excellent video on making hashbrowns.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
I have a custom brass mold that has this issue. I have tried burnishing with number 2 pencils, wooden tooth picks and haven't completely worked the issue out. I tried hand spinning a couple bullets...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If anyone is looking for the 200 grn RN Matt's Bullets sells them. I bought a hundred for a project but I got busy doing other things last summer. I experimented with the Accurate 36-200R and got...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Thank you, much appreciated. Can't remember which I am using.
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Forum: Casting Equipment
You wouldn't by chance know the difference in diameter of these two different ladels, would you? Thank you.
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Thanks Charlie B for that informative write up. I figured out the misalignment issue today. I have been using a Redding Micrometer seating die and the bullet stem is concave. It is wider and...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I built a box with security screen, 2x6s and bolts to screen out range scrap. It sits on a wheel Barrow to get it to a comfortable height. I screen mostly looking for unfired rounds. Sudden...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
On the 358 150 SWC KTs picture the bottom row of black PC bullets 1 and 8 from the right I believe hit my front plate retention block. It's 1x2 pine. That's actually the very first time shooting...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Slide, on this modification you have done to your thermocouple did you use just one bullet or did you put a number of them on there? Mine are probably about ten inches or so. Not sure exactly where...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
The first thirty same bullets, different gun, loaded with additional emphasis on straight alignment in the case. The unfired bullet is a pulled bullet from a split case I found when loading the...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Did some further testing yesterday and it's looking as it's my seating of the bullets causing the issues. Fired the same lot of bullets in three different loads in a different gun with much better...
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 |