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Pure lead , even when powder coated is too soft for loading into a 9mm Luger .
When you seat the boolit in the case it gets squeezed down and the soft nose deforms on the feed ramps .
I mix pure...

I have never had a gas check make a load shoot worse .

Everytime I used a gas check (rifle loads here) things got better .

You can work up decent loads with plain based boolits but ... by and...

The gas check protects the boolit base ... Powder coating does not .

Anytime I load rifle boolits at over 900 fps ... a gas check is used .

The Gas Check can be your friend ... do not fear...

You want something like a Crawfish Boiling Rig ... 100,000 - 110,000 BTU Jet Burner and steel stand to hold a 100 quart pot , full of crawfish and water ...
forget turkey fryer ... Wimpy , wimpy ,...

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This is a good idea ,
We bought a 110 V. heater / fan from the Wally Mart for our green house , can be used as fan or as heater... worked so well my Son "borrowed" it for his apartment...

Dry Purina Rabbit Chow .
Carries easily in a zip-lock and doesn't spoil ... rabbits seem to like it along with the "Trash Panda's" .
Gary

Advice for the Future

If you have a gun that shoots good groups with anything you stuff in it ...

Do Not Sell It !

As my Daddy put it ...
" Gary , never sell a gun you like ... you will...

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Let me warn you ...

Custom Moulds ... in my case NOE Moulds ... Are Habit Forming !!!

You can't live with just one ... trust me !

I am a Cajun and we are very thrifty people , but after...

What if it doesn't make sense ... will he make it anyway and not catalog it ?

I love it when things have to make sense ...
... that is just so Cool !
Gary

If you have Unique powder on hand ... I would start with a load of 6.0 or 6.5 grains Unique and work up slowly to get the desired recoil / accuracy ...
My pet / favorite load with a 185 gr. JHP...

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I don't have no PID or thermometer ... But
Get best boolits just at "frosty" ... I hear the frosty surface helps hold coatings !
Gary

Good advice ... from my Momma ... "Better Safe Than Sorry !!!"

Remove the nipples or pull the lead balls out , clean the cylinder chambers and
start over fresh and new . Buy some proper pistol...

#1 Since the boolit is shorter behind the crimp groove ... and heavier , the first thing I would do is seat a boolit to the crimp groove in a dummy round or two and check if the dummy rounds will...

The photo's are Wonderful ... I swear I can almost smell it baking !!!

You know what would be mor wonderful than photo's ... A Recipe !

You print that recipe and I will bake 3 or 4 ... They...

The very first 45 acp mould I ever bought was the Lee 452-228-1R ... This wasn't the Tumble Lube boolit , I wanted a regular lube grooved boolit .
It sucked so bad ... I sold it at a garage sale for...

A little extra heat will not hurt any mould ... I get my best fill out when the boolits drop right at frosty .
Trying to cast too cool is just hurting your casting ... different moulds like to be...

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My Lyman 450 was paid for in 1972 ... I can lube , size , seat a gas check and have a boolit ready to shoot with ... One Cycle of the handle ... Fast Fast Fast .
Too set in my...

18 or 20 lines per inch is the usual layout , depending on the wood hardness and texture ... how open the grain is .
When you get into 22 and 24 lines per inch the diamonds become very fine .
I...

I find it strange the pins wont rinse clean ...
Are you rinising them out of the barrel or in the barrel ?
Look carefully at the inside of the rubber lining ... you should be able to see if the...

I like my cast boolits slightly heavy ... use the Lee C309-170-F in 30-30 and since I have it ... load it in my 30-06 and in my 7.5 Swiss K11 Schmidt-Ruben - 1911 Carbine (not the K31)...
and that...

That is exactly what I was thinking ... The computer programing Nerd who "revised" the data center must have no idea what handloading and reloading is ... OR
Make it so bad they have to buy our...