According to my old Lyman cast bullet manual, you can go up to 14 grains of Unique with the lighter bullets. I have found 12 grains to be good enough, surprisingly good.
For what it's worth and...
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According to my old Lyman cast bullet manual, you can go up to 14 grains of Unique with the lighter bullets. I have found 12 grains to be good enough, surprisingly good.
For what it's worth and...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I got a little Iver Johnson .32 top break a few years ago and wanted to load for it, had all the stuff. Inquired on here and everybody told me I'd need to make a dipper for charges that small, but I...
This mirrors my experience to the letter. Accurate, gentle, lots of fun from my rolling block at 100 yards. Personally, with a bullet with the right nose profile, I wouldn't hesitae to hunt deer...
In the Lyman 3rd Edition, Frank Marshal describes his deer hunting .30-30 load using the Lyman 311284 bullet (nominally 210 grains, mine always drop 220+) with basically a case load of IMR 4350 from...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
So, messed around a little and came up with this for the little Harbor Freight Grinder Stand. After I put the first one together, I was impressed enough to go back and buy another one, stable,...
I've been shooting quite a few gallery loads with 110 grain cast bullets in a Cimarron High Wall in .30-40 using about 8 grains of 700X, both plain based and gas checks. They are as accurate as I...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Keep them around, funny how one sometimes finds a use for such things.
Makes me wonder if he was trying to make better handloads for a .38 S&W or 9mm Makarov or something. 9mm Luger is just too...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Most definitely expanders. I'm sure those are not Lyman parts, makes me wonder what the original owner was doing with them? Seems strange someone would get that elaborate for loading 9mm.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Could you post some pictures of what you're describing?
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I've never had a set of pistol dies come with multiple expanders, I have, however, had several sets that came with multiple seating stems for different nose profiles.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Are you talking expanders or seating stems?
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
I have one of these, looks identical, but instead of the "B" it has what appears to be a small circle with a triangle in it (?) Also a 1942 dated rifle with a similar serial number range. It has...
Forum: Our Town
Good range on El Dorado State Park in El Dorado, not far from you. https://eldoradostateparkrange.com/
Forum: Casting Equipment
I was just going through some stuff and found my old junker one that I quit using. Fought it for years, then one day after getting a pot full melted, it clogged up like it did a million times...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
A Rockchucker is all I ever loaded .45-70 on and while I don't load .45-110, I do load .458 Win Mag, which is longer, with the Lyman 500 grain round nose.
Yeah, a Rockshucker will handle pretty...
Forum: Factory Rifles
They are notorious for broken firing pins, if you get it, check to make sure it fires and then always use a snap cap.
I like them and have several. The on in .22 Hornet is my favorite squirrel...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
A start load of 13 grains of Unique has worked well for me under any cast bullet in the normal weight range for 100 yard target shooting for me in the .45-70 for 100 yard target shooting. Accurate,...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
OK, now I remember. A gun shop I used to frequent in Platte City, MO used to have a lot of old estate sale stuff and had this massive shotgun loader once that was branded by a big sporting goods...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Interesting press, looks a lot like the old PAcific C Presses from that era, but it is clearly a little different so not made by the same manufacturer. What is the address of the company cast into...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I put this together this afternoon. More solid than I'd have guessed before you guys gave your endorsement. I have a pallet my son's tool box for school came on that has some nice, straight, square...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
That second picture with what looks like a Lee progressive, it won't turn over with something like that mounted that far off center?
Looking at the lower shelf on these, I wonder if filling that...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Some very inspiring ideas, thanks very much. Plan to go deer hunting in the morning, but I think this will be the afternoon project for tomorrow.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Some presses do not mount over the edge ofthe work surface (Lyman All American turret), so wondering if mounting such a tool in the middle of the table area of this might reduce the need for it to be...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Wht is the height of the Harbor Freight stand? I assume it would require you to sit while reloading, but I suppose a riser of some sort could be arranged.
They'll work fine in .375 H&H. You'll most likely need a sizer, most bullets for the .38-55 seem to throw fat bullets. A sizer to make the .376 or .377 should be easy to do.
If you've never cast...
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 |