Latest 2024 update. I kept the 22 Hornet moulds
Type: Posts; User: sw282
Forum: Cast Boolits
Latest 2024 update. I kept the 22 Hornet moulds
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
l have a funny story of ''BI''. 40+YRS ago l got some stick ingots marked BI. They were heavy, soft, and shiny. l stuck some in my pot and the poured into my Lee swc 44 mold. Out came shiny 44...
Forum: Cast Boolits
My old Lyman from 1960 lists 43gr/225438GC as ''BEST'' for 22Hornet. 4227/10.5gr/2400fps. 2400/7.5gr/1950fps. LYMAN #50 from 2017 lists a 55gr BOOLIT for 22Hornet. #225415. Accuracy load is...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Cabelas in Augusta Ga had HP-38 powder AND Federal Small Pistol Match Primers yesterday. $37/HP38. $99/Brick Fed SP Match
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
40% trash?? Any copper salvageable from boolit jkts??
Forum: Cast Boolits
Update. Finally got a response from the seller. Said he'd refund my Hundred[smilie=p: Dollars
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks wm. The seller claimed he knew NOTHING about. l found some super thin copper checks on GunBroken @.010''. l believe Hornady lists theirs @.030''.. Since l started to PC boolits Lee sizers are...
Forum: Cast Boolits
l appreciate the responses from ALL. One possible help might trying to make some aluminum gas checks.l remember seeing seeing it explained on Cast Boolits. Just need to find the reference....
Forum: Cast Boolits
So l see this ad on a forum with a couple 22cal double cavity Lyman molds for sale.
They arrive and l notice molds have had the gas check groove removed. l'm already upset because the mold halves...
WWII South Pacific USMC Pa-in-law said his 1911 45acp would make a Japper change directions:awesome:
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
With the high price of gas/electricity l have very seldom poured ingots. After careful sorting l simply add to my pot as needed while casting. Until the surge in metal prices l have never thought...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Wife baked a Rum Cake for #75. All mine too. Day 3 its half gone.[smilie=p:
Forum: Cast Boolits
l appreciate the BD Greetings from ''Cast Boolits'' for #75.
l celebrated appropriately by pouring up some 20 pounds of 44 boolits for the Ga State IHMSA Match later this month.
An old Hensley &...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
l have a Lyman Cast Boolit Handbook copyright 1973. On 223 section 4 molds are listed:
#225107@38gr
#225438@45gr
#225415@50gr
#225462@58gr
All were #2 alloy w/GC molds. Highest velocity listed...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hi. Great film. Loved seeing it again
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Need some help identifying a couple Lyman 44 boolit molds of mine. ''429215EM''. Also shows the numbers ''867'' and ''07''
My 'Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook' copyright 1973 states 429215 is a 215gr SWC...
Forum: Cast Boolits
l know this is an old thread. l also have a SAECO 294441 in factory box. Written on end of box it says. ''44/240 SWC KEITH''
Forum: Our Town
l read somewhere that current US Ammo production is app 2.5 billion, 40% rimfire. lt seems Copper has gone thru the ROOF. That's LOGICAL. Lead prices seem to be LOW. No LOGIC there!
Also in same...
l have a brick of Super Vel Small Pistol. Very compact pkgng too. Like virtually all Super Vel components, no telling who made them.
Forum: Our Town
Number ONE.
Wasn't that dealership at TEN MILE HILL? Remount Rd and the ''Dual Lane" as we used to call it? l remember the year they had the GT40 Ford on display that won LeMans. Was that Paul...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1011036653
Hornady looks sturdy too GB. Not in stock tho:-(
It does have a HOLE
Forum: Reloading Equipment
GB-The RCBS extended shell holders l have can't be used for decapping because there is no hole to eject a spent primer. Their intended use is for seating boolits
Extended shell holders may or may...
Forum: Cast Boolits
i think l understand basic economics of supply and demand. When demand is greater than supply the price will naturally be HIGHER. Thats what puzzles me about the price of Lead... Demand and price for...
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 |