Yep. This right here.
Type: Posts; User: scottfire1957
Forum: Cast Boolits
Google or Bing were of no help? I mean, the specs for those loads are at least 70 years old.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Well, when you consider one grain is one 7 thousandths of a pound, 5 or 10 grains I don't worry about.
I do not shoot precision.
Forum: Cast Boolits
15 seven thousandths of a pound. Just look in your reloading manual and use the closest weight. To answer your question, less Pb, more something else.
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This is not how pressure works. Pressure works equally in all directions, and can't, to rephrase a tad, "concentrate" on one point, or, as quoted, on the tip of a bullet.
When water boils, the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I need to cast some fishing weights for a dealer, but I am afraid he is gonna give me more lead. I have not melted all the last batch.
This question gets asked almost weekly.
Lead...
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Maybe where you are water boils at 220. How far below sea level are you?
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
How badly are either of you needing the alloy? Is he gathering all the scrap, and are you doing all the melting? Seems like a 50/50 deal in that case. Time, propane, equipment to melt and clean and...
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He's NOT lazy? Him insulting my wife makes ME the dick?
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You used which reloading manual for that?
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Then again, if you have a silver dime, and you have read such, toss it in! YOU tell us the results and comparisons of 1 (one) silver dime in your alloy. One dime in twenty pounds of alloy?
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Local fire station. Jaws of life. Rookie practice. I've done it. Bring doughnuts.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Is it specfically .44 magnum, or simply .44 cal? Made for roundball or .357 or .41 sabots?
.44 magnum muzzle loader? Or is it .50 caliber using .44 cal sabots?
Edit: I googled, it's not a...
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Adding silver seems to be an expensive way to make boolits as compared to pewter.
I would sell the silver to buy other components, if priced appropriately. Otherwise, I would keep the silver....
Forum: Cast Boolits
Sorry to sound too obvious, but why not ask the previous owner about cast loads he used?
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Headspace "problems" are a brass sizing problem, not a "load" problem. Your brass resizing dies need to be adjusted correctly, no matter the load.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Nope, it is ruined. He needs to send his alloy to me for disposal.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Scrape and clean, until the cast iron is shiny. Or, scrape, clean and flux. Take your pick.
This isn't rocket surgery. Flux more, scrape your pot more, or use a new pot for every melt.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Actually, we can't know, since we DO NOT KNOW the composition of your keel metal.
It is as simple as that. All anybody here can do is guess. You have a mystery metal.
It is up to you to have...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Yep. It is ruined. Send it all to me for proper disposal.
Seriously, I will dispose of it.
Forum: Cast Boolits
No. Brass cases are not obsolete. At all. Until these become mainstream, and brass cases have disappeared, no. Not at all. How long will that take, do you think?
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 |