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Your Ideal tool for reloading .38-45 Bullard would be a No.6, which was made for "rifle size" cartridges (think .45-70, .38-55, .32-40, etc.), whereas the No.4 tool was made for "revolver size"...

The min. (or "trim to") length of the .30-40 Krag cartridge case is 2.304-inches, with a max. case length of 2.314-inches. I am assuming the stated loaded overall length of 2.060-inches to be a typo....

The die you are looking for will be found marked with the number 96.

Jim

7x57Hunter,

Your No.457474 was listed only in Handbook No.39 (1953), with only the briefest of mention in the first Handbook of Cast Bullets (1958). Apparently, this was intended as a "double...

The primer seater is Lyman's post-WWII version of the old Ideal "Straightline" Re- and De-Capper, which originally appeared in the Ideal lineup c.1901.

To de-cap, the rod in the center is removed...

Are you sure you're looking at a 358477? I have that one, and it is a plain-base semi-wadcutter. Definitely not one of Jim Harvey's designs using the zinc washers.

Jim

Any steel 310 handles for the following will also work for 38 Colt Auto:
38 S & W
38 S & W Special
357 Magnum
380 Colt Auto
9mm Luger

The correct adapter for the later alloy handles is shown...

The bullet seating die (officially known as the Double Adjustable, or D.A., die) you are looking for will be marked on the body with the number 13.

Jim

My mid-1980s double-cavity mirrors JonB_in_Glencoe's and Larry Gibson's results... 0.655".

Jim

According to the "Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson, 4th Edition" by Jim Supica and Richard Nahas, the three-letter serial prefix BPT should have appeared in 1993, but that is only speculation based...

If you are asking in regard to revolvers, Lyman's No.454190. This has been the classic design for .45 Colt since the days when black powder was the only powder. It carried enough lube then, it will...

Neither cartridge appears in any of the lists of available dies for the 310 from Lyman throughout the years. That being said, the 7.63mm Tokarev is dimensionally (although not ballistically) a...

The powder in question appears to be Hercules "Lightning". For many years the published 'standard' load for the .32-40, with a 165-grain jacketed bullet, was 24.0 grains. Hercules discontinued...

The cherry number 337 appears in Lyman's Handbook of Cast Bullets (1958) where it is shown (see image below) as No.338337, a flat-nose, plain-base designed for the .33 Winchester cartridge. This same...

If the number "514" is on both block halves, which I suspect, that number is not part of the mould number. Rather, it is a " match" number used to keep the two halves together during manufacture....

CH4D lists the dies you are looking for here:
https://www.ch4d.com/products/dies/caliber-list?page=65

Jim

FWIW, that box graphic was used by Remington from 1946 until 1960.

Jim

Every chart from 1927 through 1951 shows 132 to be the number assigned to the 6mm U.S. Navy cartridge. Ideal Handbook No.12 (1899) is the earliest to list tools (the No.10 tool) available, and it was...

Your front sight is a Marble's "Improved Frobt Sight", which was intended to give a less obscured view of the object (game animal) than the traditional post or post-and-bead front sight... advertised...

Did anyone ever receive a copy of this from the OP?

There is your problem. The Winchester tools are designed to work with bullets cast from a Winchester mould. They MIGHT work with a Lyman No.427098, which is a close copy of the Winchester design......

That's precisely how John Barlow's 1907 patent describes his gas check... and why Ideal handooks stated a special pin (slightly concave) was needed for seating gas checks with the Ideal...

Interesting. No gas-check shank necessary.

Jim

The original Model 1873 could be had from Winchester either blued (the standard finish) or color case hardened (available on special order, and at extra cost).

Jim

No.308291 was introduced in Ideal Handbook No.17 (1906) as the new "standard" design for .30 Winchester (.30-30) and .303 Savage. Along with No.308284, No.308290, No.319295, and No.375296, it was one...