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Picked up the latest offering from Taurus, the TH45. Have to wait until the county burn ban is lifted before I can get to the range with it. Also waiting on a throater from Manson so I can run my...

Another thumbs up for the Lee 230TC mold. Functions great and is very accurate in my 45's.

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You guessed it. It's all part of Lee's "precision"(sarcasm). Not only are the weights all over the place, but some of my Lee molds cast boolits that are up to .007" longer than listed.

I agree. I had other poor grouping loads that I didn't post the results of and they were all sub-1000fps. Going to see what these will do in 38/357 as mentioned above by gwpercle, next time to the...

Had a good day at the range today with the new Lee 147TC boolit in both 9mm and 38 Super. Didn't do a lot of ladder testing but used several of the best loads I had from the 147XTP which is the exact...

Brownells. 35 cal (9mm) throating reamer. Very easy to use. Chuck it in a tap handle and give it a few turns in the chamber. I made a block that keeps from reaming too deep so I can get an exact...

You beat me to it. Every owners manual I have says exactly that.

Is it any wonder why firearms manufacturers won't honor the warranty when reloaded ammo is used?

3 grains of RD with a 98gn boolit? Wow!!! I've loaded 2 grains of RD with a 73gn boolit for my Beretta Tomcat and it easily exceeds the 130FP max energy that the manual recommends. 3 grains would...

I have several "best" loads with the Lee 200SWC for the 5" 1911. OAL has to be right at 1.240" to feed reliably.

Fast Powder Loads
4.5gn Bullseye @833FPS
3.6gn Clays @720FPS

Medium Burn...

Forgot to say these measure .655" long and need a generous chamber throat or they will need to seat real deep. Thankfully I purchased a 35 cal throating reamer recently and reamed 6 of my 9mil...

IME, Lee sprue plates are way too tight and gouge the molds. I like to heat the mold and test the tightness of the sprue plate, then remove just enough material under the plate so the wave (spring)...

The mailman dropped off the mold today and I couldn't wait to try it out. Trued the sprue plate and milled .008" from under the attachment screw, then heat cycled it three times and it was off to the...

Exactly. I had to re-work several of my Lee sizers that were on the small side.

Went back to the range today and tested a few other boolits, and also re-tested the Power Pistol loads since they were questionable. Sure enough there must have been a glitch with the chrony last...

I thought the same thing about being maxed out on PP. 5.4 is about where the velocity stops increasing. I picked up some 38 cal 125gn XTP's to try out next week. They're .357" in diameter and should...

Retested several loads yesterday and the groups got tighter. Concluded the rifle still prefers medium to slower burning powders and I've probably found the rifles limit on accuracy. Next week I'm...

PC seems to be all they need. Haven't seen even a trace of leading or PC residue yet. Boolit is about .030" longer than a 100XTP but they don't seat as deep with an OAL of 1.140" compared to the XTP...

Forget the check and start PCing them. I cast and PC the Lee 311-100-2R and push them past 1200FPS from the Shield without issue. I've worked up lots of good Alliant loads if you need data.
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Good call!

Seated a few in different headstamp brass today and they were indeed being swaged. The entire length was about .001" smaller and near the base about .002". So I made a new expander and...

That weight difference is negligible so your 3.2gn load would work fine.

I've been using the NOE expander and brass used for this session was Winchester and Remington. Tomorrow I'll seat a few boolits then pull/measure. Also, I think I have some American Select buried in...

Did some more testing today with Unique, Blue-dot, Red-dot and Longshot. Looks like slower powders are what the carbine likes. Red-dot performed like the rest of the fast powders did, not good at...

I've done them both ways and as far as I recall there wasn't any noticeable difference after recovering some from the back-stop.

I've been using an Eastwood ES gun since day one. I use trays with riveted 22lr cases to set the boolits on so the PC wraps the base. Haven't found a powder yet that doesn't come out perfect. I also...