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I am not worried about the shot bushing, as I am going to be loading these up with either 3 pellets of larger buckshot, or 6-9 pellets of smaller buckshot. These are mostly so that my daughter can...

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Start with .38 ACP loads, and work your way up from there. If you are worried about your gun, just keep going up in powder until you reach the point where your gun cycles reliably. You...

I normally use jacketed bullets in 8x57, as I usually load it to full power. Which means velocities in excess of what cast lead bullets can normally handle. That being said, I do use loads with...

I know this is a dumb question, but are you belling the case mouth enough? Could that be what is causing the scraping as you seat/crimp? Just a thought, as I didn't see that mentioned in your...

I saw this one last night. I don't even want to think about the lead contamination in that area. But at least they wore some protective gear, and it was fun to watch. Of course, the whole time I...

Well, the only primed .410 hulls I have seen in nearly 2 years are on their way to my house. The problem is that they are only 2" hulls. And I bought the Cheddite load manual from BPI, only to...

Rio does this with their 20 gauge size 0 buckshot load. If you try getting 8-9 pellets of regular 0 buck (0.30") in a 20 gauge hull, it just doesn't fit. If you pull apart one of their rounds, you...

Yes, something went wrong. However, I am thinking it has more to do with that batch of powder than it does with the procedure. When the temperature and bake times are verified and consistent, using...

Okay, the range results were anticlimactic. They went bang just fine. The accuracy was fine. Nothing spectacular, but average for range ammo. The best part is that I could simply walk away and...

I have probably at least a dozen molds for .38 caliber. Several of them are oddballs that I have picked up on ebay or estate sales over the years. Most of my revolvers are older guns that have the...

These were factory loaded, and somebody pulled the bullets and powder. They had never been fired. So they aren't so much being reloaded as they are being loaded again. If that makes any sense. ...

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I picked up some primed aluminum cases for less than the current cost of primers, and figured I would give it a go. The bullets are from a huge batch of 124 grain bullets that were...

Was it the Powder Gold color? Because the ones I did two coats on had a very pronounced yellow gold color. And have those been sized yet?

They were baked at the same temperature, with the same ovens, for the same length of time as I have been doing with all of the other powder coatings. My standard procedure is to shake the bullets in...

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The powder gold coating does NOT work for coating the bullets. Nor do the coatings with it mixed in with other colors that normally work. I went to size the finished bullets by running...

I did the second coating to see if it changed the texture and color. Normally I don't bother. I don't particularly care about the color, and will normally add a bit of this and a bit of that as I...

Looking cool is great and all. But I am mostly doing this as a way of lubricating bullets. What I really need to know is if they will work for that.

Okay, I have been coating with Eastwood powders for a while now. All the ones I have used have a slick, almost waxy finish to the final coating. I have been especially pleased with the Ford Light...

My only concern here is that several online sources as well as several Bullseye shooters (the sport of bullseye shooting, not the powder) who have these have said 2.9 grains of bullseye powder is the...

I recently picked up a S&W Model 52. It is a .38 Special target pistol set up to use wadcutter loads. It looks like the ideal loading for these is a 148 grain wadcutter over 2.7 grains of Bullseye,...

Ford Light Blue. Simply because it seems to coat the best for me. Maroon in a close second, for the same reason.

Because I can powder coat them easily enough, without the mess and paint fumes? And because I am new to powder coating and it is fun? And because it looks cool? It takes me maybe 2 minutes to do...

Mostly because it helps me tell which one it which at a glance. I cast F, #4, #1 1/2, #1, 0, 0 1/2, and 00. In real life that translates to .22, .24, .29, .30, .31, .32 and .33 inch pellets. I...

Unless they are CLEARLY marked ".32 S&W Long", they are NOT chambered for .32 S&W Long. Most of these old guns were made as inexpensively as possible. Even the real Smith and Wesson guns. One of...

This is what I ended up doing. I am sacrificing a new Pietta 1851 reproduction, and having a Kirst .38 Special gated Konverter added and rechambered. Since I only use the .386" soft lead bullets to...