Thanks very much to you all, im still waiting for some decent weather to give it another go. seems like theres a wet front coming over us every weekend at the moment. thanks again and hopefully ill...
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Forum: Leverguns
Thanks very much to you all, im still waiting for some decent weather to give it another go. seems like theres a wet front coming over us every weekend at the moment. thanks again and hopefully ill...
Forum: Leverguns
thanks hornady308, im going out tomorrow to take some new reloads, some of the faulty batch and maybe some factory for testing. appreciate the tips on things to look for while operating it. gold.
Forum: Leverguns
thanks btroj, a couple of times a re-cock and fire worked but not always. im going to pull the rest of the bullets and dump the powder to see whether all the primers were unfired..
Forum: Leverguns
Hi All,
My first time casting up some 30-30 for my Win 94, about 50% of 30 rounds failed to ignite.
82200
no hang fires.. all factory ammo fired fine. used a variety of brass in this batch...
Thanks again Swede, :) still stoked with the mold. beautiful. and this only reflects well with me on your customer service. Cheers
Thanks guys, yeah it was new from NOE. ill get hold of them. cheers.
Hi,
Just unpacked and cleaned my new NOE mould. and received my lee 6 cav handles. but neither product has the screws/bolts to fit together. does anyone know if im missing some? or is it just find...
Forum: Cast Boolits
i loaded up two batches of 7.62x54r (21 grains of 4227, 200 grain boolit) that shot with no difference. 1 grain of filler and 1.5 grains filler. if you shook the 1 grain batch you could hear the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks to you all, ill look in to the m-die i think. i had another go last night with no shaving most of the time so will have to look at what im doing different. i was making sure i put a bit more...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks to you both
whats the next size? is it a lee part?
Cheers,
Red
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hi all, im attempting my first cast boolits. have run in to a couple of issues.
When seating the boolits im getting some shaving. Also its hard to chamber a round, then on extracting the unfired...
no excuses Paladin.. :) i just received mine in the mail in New Zealand..
I believe that. the Major companies won't sell outside the USA, so Ebay and others are one of the few places to get stuff.[/QUOTE]
Bang on the money with that comment nanuk.. i just bought a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thanks guys, taken all advice on board
i think youre right 44man ill take notice of this.
Forum: Cast Boolits
just read some of the Kroil sticky thread, sounds like the Be all End all.
thanks
Forum: Cast Boolits
ok ta, Kroil might be a hard find in New Zealand, does it go by any other name?
i didnt have too much lube to start with but as a last resort i put some more on because the lead kept sticking. ill...
Forum: Cast Boolits
the bullplate wont arrive for a week but i got bored and decided to try again...
and it happened again
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8608/bits.jpg
whats the best way to remove this...
Forum: Cast Boolits
After ironing out my wrinkle issue i got stuck in and cast a hundred or so to see if i could keep up a good pace, and they generally came out all right, but at some point after i stopped checking...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Not ALL of them looked THAT good, i was just showing off the best [smilie=1:
Heres a noob moment. First i got a 314299 block (casting for a M44) but needed some handles. so i had a quick read...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Tried again tonight starting off with a much hotter mold. instantly i could see the difference with how it poured nicely through the sprueholes.
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/77/betterh.jpg
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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 |