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I personally run a 7.5" SBH as my primary woods sidearm, and have performed many test as well as taken many whitetail with this firearm. While a 200-250 pound, on the hoof. While whitetail isn't as...

Hmm, interesting! I scavenged some ballast lead off of an old wrecked sailboat that has been setting on the shore of a lake for as long as I can remember. No telling how old that thing was, and I...

Boat ballast, from my experience, tend to be soft, close to pure lead. Meanwhile, clip on wheel weights are a bit harder falling somewhere between 10 and 12 bhn.

With a non gaschecked and PCed...

So I was able to open the holes enough with a few grinding bits on my dremil. High speed with light contact seemed to be the best course of action.

Based on my measurements off of the #2L plate, I...

I didn't think about anneal in the lead pot! That's a good idea.

I just spoke with our lead maintenance tech here at work. We do not have any carbide bits for the mill, everything we have that is small enough are general purposes.

I'm not in IN anymore, I've moved across the river to KY. I did live in Clarksville for about 12 years.

I have access to a mill at work, I called the lead maintenance guy to see if we have any...

There are a lot of do-it-yourselfers here so I'd thought I'd ask this question.

Quite a few years ago my lovely wife bought me a Lee Loadmaster press with a kit to load all of my service calibers....

I am looking for a 180gr 10mm mold that will serve as a multi purpose boolit. I want something that will reliably feed in a 1911 platform for both target and defensive use on 4 legged critters (upto...

My pet load in my 7.5" SBH is 12.5gr of HS-6 under a 265gr boolit, or 13gr of HS-6 under a 250gr boolit. Both with a standard LPP. Good load giving me about 1200fps. Enough power to know I'm shooting...

The first handgun I purchased after turning 21 (18 years ago) was the beautiful 7.5" Ruger Bisley Hunter, chambered in .44mag. In the last 18 years, this firearm has only seen 2 boxes of factory ammo...

I've had my best results from 20-1. If you add antimony, you risk the petals sheering if you don't properly match the velocity to your alloy.

With high velocity rounds (1800 fps out of my...

When I was merely a young pup, my Grandpaw would let me do the brass prep. I learned how to read a set of dial calipers at the age of 7 and he would let me trim, debur, camfor, and clean the primer...

That was my experience too. I have the Lee 310 44 mold and PC before putting the check on with no problem. The NOE, well, I was taking a piece of aluminum flatbar I had laying around and was setting...

After dealing with some Lee molds and a second hand 265gr RD clone by NOE, I finally broke down and purchased a 432-240-WFN-CF5 a 3 cavity gas checked mold from NOE. If I'm remembering correctly,...

It really is about a perfect middle ground load. Hot enough to let you know you're shooting a magnum, soft enough you can comfortably shoot 100+ rounds in a session, and accurate enough (out of my...

My personal favorite load in the .44 is 13gr of HS-6 under a 265gr boolit. This gives me around 1250fps out of my 7.5" barrel. I use whatever scrap lead I can get ahold of, usually a mix of range...

I use my Muzzleloader strictly as a hunting tool. I'll confirm zero with maybe 5 rounds before season, then only shoot it once or twice more at deer. Clean it and put her up for the season. It's hard...

From what I've seen on this particular sub forum this is geared more towards the traditional muzzleloader. However, I'm sure many use modern muzzleloader technology and may be equipped to answer my...

I've used 22-24 grains of H-110 in my SBH, seated to the crimping groove with a pretty solid roll crimp for a while. I've never had any high pressure signs in my gun. Note: I have chronographed the...

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I did that with this boolit that I tested out of muzzleloader at a velocity of 1600 fps. Higher velocity than we'll get out of a handgun, but you may get better riveting or expansion than...

Like I said it was a quartering away shot. The bullet entered about the 3rd or 4th rib up. I found the jacket just inside the body cavity leaving the mangled lead core to traverse through the liver,...

I have taken 3 deer with a handgun, 2 with a .44 mag and 1 with a .357 mag. The .357 was a 4" S&W and I was using a 158gr XTP. The deer was directly below me, at maybe 5 yards. I'm not convinced that...

So, I cast a couple hundred boolits out of 4 parts pure to 1 part linotype. My basic research says that'll put me right about 8-8.5 BHN. As per usual, my trad lubed group was terrible with a 23gr...

Fortunately/ unfortunately I work at a place that uses steam to mold parts. On a 70° day it's 100+ in there with a humidity over 90%. The worst I've seen was 127°, 98% humidity. While that's friggin...