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You gotta be careful there.

Such adventures start really cutting into your internal case volume and you need to reduce charges accordingly. The 452423 that I experimented with is supposedly a 238...

I kinda touched on this a little in your other thread, but a bit more explanation. . .

Some years back, I went down a deep rabbit hole of making Elmer Keith's .45 Auto Rim bullet - the 452423 -...

braddock, some more brain-twitches. . .

Your round nose bullet looks to be a 210 grain Lyman 311284, which I understand was originally conceived as a bullet for the U.S. .30-40 Krag - a round...

I guess I can call it one of my lasting contributions to the casting community: I convinced Ranch Dog to design a .45 ACP bullet based on his other WFN concepts which required a group buy at NOE to...

My understanding is they had some early teething issues that have since been resolved. Supposedly a stronger gun than the originals. Maybe not quite as hand-fit smooth, but probably less trouble...

Good to see this thread revived. To those who have found M1/cast success, do you have any chronograph velocity data to go with these loads?

The bigger question is if they chamber and extract easily. If they do, then your bore ride section is far enough back from the throat that it's not jamming into the lands until after you pull the...

An update for interested parties:

The Accurate 31-200V mold arrived two days ago and the first samples got poured yesterday. Feeds slick as greased eel boogers in the M70. Load development...

"Best" or "easiest"? Sometimes you might need to do a little homework, but there really isn't much difference between them if you do.

.45ACP is very forgiving if you aren't going to do that...

Maybe run your Easy Bake oven with a PID?

Most of the rifle work is with practice ammo for the deer rifles @ 1800+. I like my milk jugs poofy. :mrgreen:

Most of the handgun is now 1200 or below. More just hurts.

Just some armchair hypothesizing here...

One technique I've seen mentioned here and there is to plunk a chunk of softer alloy into the nose of the mold and fill the back end with the harder stuff....

Parallax shouldn't be an issue with a quality red dot until the distances open up significantly. In point of fact, one of the better drills for helping students build speed on them is to hold the...

Assuming you're right handed. . .

Left = body mechanics. Elbow, wrist, and trigger finger all want to curl left. Lock the arm out and crank the thumb in tight. Adjust trigger finger to pull...

Why not?

If you're thinking defensive purposes, the gun has to WORK, first, last, and always.

High likelihood of them not feeding in a lever gun.

Tendency of wadcutters to lose stability and...

OK. Longer nose then. Look at the 34-220A. Request that the front band and crimp groove be shifted rearward slightly, expand the meplat by .02", and adjust the nose taper and length of the bore...

This is where I've arrived on many things - ESPECIALLY since I got into bullet casting. Between manipulating alloy, nose shape, and adding hollowpoints, you can often pick one cartridge and tweak...

Would you rather commute to work every day in a common, reliable car that always starts, always runs, always gets you where you need to go, has commonly available parts and accessories, and runs on...

NOICE!!

My Dad snagged a long barreled '95 Krag a few years back & I got to help him with the pre-shoot, tear down and clean up. That action is an absolute BEAST. Friendly tip: Accurate...

Remember Remington? Or perhaps more to the point, remember Titanic? It seems really efficient to have a lot of folks travelling on one boat. . .right up to the point that boat sinks. . .or in the...

1. Look at the case mouth dimension on the cartridge blueprint in your loading manual.

2. Taper crimp to match the blueprint.

Does it need to be any more complicated than that?

A 10/22 that shoots 9mm from cheap, reliable Glock mags? What's not to like?

I have the carbine with the standard sporting rifle stock and the ventilated handguard. I set it up with AR flip up...

If I had both guns on a table in front of me and an angry forest creature approaching, I would grab whichever one DIDN'T have finger grooves on the grips and not worry about who's name was stamped on...

I've got to track down some photos of 1950's Chinese troops. I wonder if the lack of penetration stories had anything to do with their chests being covered with ammo pouches full of SKS stripper...

I've got very little Luger experience under my belt, but I learned quite a bit about how semi autos feed when I experimented with running the TOO LARGE meplat 452423 in the 1911.

Our rounds don't...