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Works great, you have to learn how to use it though. It's not hard to figure out if you are interested. It takes time and patience to reload. The videos on YouTube are very helpful. The instructions...

All I can add to this is with a revolver, the way to make it safe is to have the cylinder OPEN. Otherwise it's loaded. By assuming that any gun is loaded until you check for yourself, you are in a...

I'm looking for mold for 38 special with the hollow base. A wadcutter will be fine. .360 If I need to be on a waiting list, fine, or if I can purchase that would be great. PM me here. These molds...

If you guys are talking about the 20 grain primer only 22 long bullets I have shot them for a couple of years in different guns. My favorite is in the bolt action 22 Remington 512 Sportmaster rifle....

I've been there Patrick. Don't count your chickens before they hatch. If it disappears out of the estate, even with it -and your name- written in the will, and you go looking for it, and then get...

I have been hitting my lead, wheelweight ingots, linotype and anything else that I have been putting into the lead melting pot, with a ball pein hammer. After just a little practice, you can feel...

My Lee molds all throw boolits the correct size. I've found the softer the lead the smaller the boolit, and they drop out easier too. With more wheelweights, linotype, solder in the mix - basically...

Well, it was very easy to trim up the nips to fit better. The problem appears to have been the taper of the nips act as a wedge and when the hammer comes down on them they split due to all the...

That's exactly what's happening - the hammer is contacting the cap and nip with so much force. I should start tweaking the heights of the nips. So they fit better. Maybe put a copper strip between...

Thanks, these are all good tips. I tried the #10 cap, (you're right on - the gun is a Piatta) and it is too small with 10's. Misfires, won't even ignite the cap. Maybe if I did thin the nipples...

What do others do to improve the reliability of BP pistol shooting? I have always had trouble shooting my .44 BP Cap and Ball pistol more than one shot without picking out the small metal bits of the...

When you melt range scrap please be sure to start out with the scrap in a cold pot, turn the pot on and let it all melt at once. If you are mining range scrap out of the ground, there is dampness in...

You can learn a lot about the metal just by denting it with a small hammer. After you get the feel for it, you get instant feedback. Of course I have no idea what the actual percentages are this way,...

After adding 95/5 lead free solder for the first time casting (I've casted for about a year now) I have got to say it really improved the castings. They fill out better, the surfaces are nicer....

I do use a set of Lee handles that I dismantled from the Lee mold to use on the same mold you have. They are not as thick, so I cut out (and filed) a spacer to fill the gap. Works fine. But I have a...

Never had a problem sizing with the lee sizer, but it is much easier with a little lube, much smoother.

I traced my jamming problem to the boolit diameter. I don't size them, and I found that one mould I used molds boolits that are just a bit large in diameter for my gun, and this was messing up how...

As far as the shopvac idea, the gold miners today use a converted leaf blower to mine in dry areas. Uses a 5 gallon bucket to catch the dirt with the gold -or lead= in it. Gold's a lot harder to...

I made a shim to thicken the lee handle for the Lyman mold, and it fit an older Ideal mold too. Cut it out, filed it, drilled a hole, had to make two, one for each side.. No problems with the fit.

My Springfield xd .45 cycles the Lee 230 grain Tumble Lube boolit fine. The 452-228-IR Lee boolit just gave me problems and I have traced it down to the diameter of the round nose - it is too large...

Also the lead has to be very pure, very soft lead. Any wheel weights in the pour and the boolits are very hard to start. Once I started with dead soft lead, my troubles loading were over.

Just a thought, perhaps you could freeze the more common 1/4" copper tubing into 5/16.. It happens naturally up here every winter if there is water in the tubing.

I learned a lesson about shooting a GOLF BALL suspended from a tree once, shot it with a powerful pellet gun. Richochet came back at the shooter with a lot of velocity. Never again.