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It's been my experience that a jacketed bullet load, and same weight
as cast bullet being considered would be safe load! Cast bullets have
much less resistance in the barrel than a jacketed one! ...

A BIG hand! I read Sharpes handloading opus, and he gives a pretty good account
of developing the 357 Magnum, with help from Douglas Wesson* I never cared much for
Elmer Keith! Thought he was...

Why?? We always shot cast in ours! Maybe you are thinking of
the Desert Eagle pistol

I've been a member & competitor in IHMSA for 41 years* If you try to use the loads
in the IHMSA book, work up your loads* Some of those are pretty HOT!

If I have to do all that crap to get a NEW bullet mold to function, they can take a leap! In 55 years of casting bullets, and reloading, I've NEVER had to do all that to get a mold to function. ...

It's also one of the best powders for the .500 Smith & Wesson. I use 26.5 grains behind the RCBS 400 grain cast bullet. It runs average of 1250 fps, and the groups at 25 yards are usually...

I shoot IHMSA silhouette, using Ruger 10.5" barrel Super Blackhawk. I use the RCBS silhouette bullet which is supposed to drop out of the mold at 245 grains. Using wheel weights, it comes out of my...

If the bullet only goes into the barrel, say an inch, how do you propose to drive it the rest of the way through the barrel? I'm having trouble seeing how that is possible, what with the limited...

I used to have one of those, back in '69, and I cast the Lyman Ray Thompson gas check version. I used it in my Ruger Superblackhawk for deer hunting, in front of 18 grains of then Hercules 2400. ...

Another good way to know if you have enough lube is to look for the "lube star" at the muzzle. No lube star, not enough lube.

They are, of course. I've never cared much for them, but lots of folks love em. I have 3 Lyman 450 sizers set up on my loading bench, so I pretty much go that way on sizing and lubing.

I tried Lee's .480 design bullet for my Ruger Super Redhawk, and except for low velocity loads, it leads like crazy with loads above 1000 fps. I then bought RCBS plain base mold design, 400 grains,...

My first press was a Lyman c-press. Cast iron, good beginner press. I used it for about 5 years and then moved on to an RCBS Junior. I still have the Junior, and still load lots of ammo on it. ...

I had one of the LAR Grizzly pistols, and it was extremely accurate. I even got big lead bullets for the .45 Colt to feed in mine. I think they were coming out of the mold at 265 grains. Big wide...

We used taper crimp dies for all our .44 AMP loads, but you could actually apply a crimp on .357 AMP loads. I never did, tho. I just used taper crimp on those, too.

How cool! I have been reloading since 1965, and I've never seen that RCBS cast bullet reloading manual.

I think DAFzapper has the correct answer. I for one, do not like aluminum molds. I prefer iron molds. Having said that, I have a few aluminum molds and they like to be run HOT! I think that's...

I had a box of .357 Oregon trail bullets, and I've sold all my .357's, so I melted them down and cast a bunch of RCBS mold .44 mag silhouette bullets to shoot in my Ruger Super Blackhawk 10.5"...

Elmer Keith, the .44 magnum guru, wanted penetration in his bullet designs. In his time, what jacketed handgun bullets there were, probably didn't expand at ALL. With his designs the bullet is...

I've never reloaded Berdan brass, but an old time gun article, probably from the mid-60's, said one good way to deprime was to fill the case full of water, then take a wooden dowel that fit tightly...

I've been using 20 grains of Alliant 2400 in my 10.5" SuperBlackhawk, for IHMSA silhouette. It comes out of the barrel at average 1495 fps, measured over an Oehler model 33 chrono. It beats the...

I read some comments by Elmer Keith, in an old article long ago, and he stated that the reason he liked plain base bullets was because gas checks RAISED pressure. I don't know if he had H.P. White...

Western Powders are full of bovine excrement! All I got to say on the subject.

Is that 44man for real? 2.5" at 500 yards?? Sounds like Elmers 600 yard running elk shot. I smell BS!

We can probably thank the last president we had for lead being phased out of a lot of things, like wheel weights.