Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
Type: Posts; User: Orygun
Forum: Castpic of the Month
Wilson CQB in hard chrome, Hubertus automatic & wheel weights to boolits!
Forum: Cast Boolits
I also try to size & lube within a few hours. Anything over 24 hours and they are harder to run through the sizer.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Looks like dirty alloy to me. Are you fluxing well and with what?
Forum: Cast Boolits
I know a guy that was playing basketball and went up for a slam dunk and his ring caught on one of the net hooks. He came down with only a third of his finger! Ouch!!!
Forum: Casting Equipment
+1
It's pretty easy to plug them with #9 shot and also easy to poke out from the inside with a curved dental pick. And no, I have never scratched the inside of the die doing that.
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
Heh, that was me. :) To expand, I drilled through the bench top so as the sizer sets back flush at the front. The PVC pipe is cut at an angle with a small hole drilled in the bottom of the pointed...
Well, I don't know about you, but I need a band aid once in a while. ;-)
I have used a single edge razor blade and carefully shaved off the lead on the bottom of the sprue plate. After that regular use of Bullplate lube will make the rest disappear.
Forum: Our Town
Gotta hate those "panic" moments! Was just at the range the other day trying a new load in a friends J frame, and when we went back to the rig he says "what did I do with the revolver?
Turned out...
Forum: Cast Boolits
This is the quickest and easiest method that I have used. Though I believe the Chore Boy pads are copper and make sure they are NOT just copper coated steel. Easy magnet test to check.
Forum: Our Town
Only heard it once while shooting a 6MM in a heavy snowfall.
Forum: Our Town
I'll bid one hundred thirteen dollars and sixty seven cents. ;)
Forum: Our Town
A shooting or guns related book or magazine subscription?
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Just tried this. Got the lube (50/50) soft enough in the microwave to press into the chapstick tube. The problem is applying it to the boolit lube groove (.32) without getting all over the place and...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Or if you can find a Lyman 410459 mold, it's very good.
220 gr. LSWC (Lyman 410459)
10.0 gr. Unique
Has some authority but not brutal by any means. Accurate too.
Used to shoot Blue Dot but got away from it in favor of this load.
Haven't tried Win....
200 gr. LSWC (WW) + 2% Sn, water dropped
Jake's Purple Lube
5.2 gr. Titegroup
Win. LP primer
runfiverun, I thought you liked Titegroup best also!?!
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Sounds like you didn't let the ingots cool long enough. You might try to find some more molds so you can let them cool longer between filling. Shouldn't be any problem with the alloy.
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 |