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It's just enough to notice, if that makes sense.
Greg that's taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut, it's far easier just to seat the boolits 20 or 30 thou deeper in the case.

I'd been using Barnes 130 grn TTSX, which barnes recommend to have a jump into the rifling up to 0.050" IIRC. Hence my caution, it seems to work for me, maybe I ought to try engaging the rifling in...

After several years of just loading any old boolits for my 30 cals I've come to the stage where I want to refine my system and just end up using one boolit.
Here's an image of a handful that won't...

You're dang right. I should have thought that myself.I'll give it a swing as I have time to knock out a couple hundred 358 and 309 boolits on Thursday, just hope I get the mix of pure lead, range...

I've kitted myself out with the gear to powder coat boolits but I'm starting to wonder if I've done the right thing.
I've seen a fistfull of youtubes where PC loads were tested alongside identical...

I had one 30/30 case split out of a run of 100, as a result I've annealed all my 30/30 brass that doesn't have primers in, some of these cases are decades old and this will be their first annealing....

Just a quick post to bring folks up to speed, my 94 30/30 likes 167grn, 173 grn at around 1600 -2100 fps, best groups 2" at 50 yards with iron sights, absolutely loathes 120 grain boolits does full...

Rules is rules, they are the same for everyone why bitch about it?

I used the Sage PB check for 30/30 and 308, had an issue with the checks coming off, especially when the boolits were pushed in so the base passed the neck and hung into the case.
Rather than bitch...

That's a good idea, thanks.

I ordered up a single hot plate, that'll let me put my molds on it to retain their temperature as I'm sure, with casting outside in temperatures about 18C (60F?), the molds cool off real quick.
I'll...

Thanks for the replies fellas. Weather looks good next week for some outside lead work.
BHN of my "new" alloy is 12, I'm going to try to powder coat the bullets once I've cast them and fit gas...

I originally put down up to 1000, but things are looking up here and I'm up into the 2000+ range, mostly 357 mag thru my Rossi R92 but 308 is starting to mount up now I've got my mold and the 30/30...

I've been raking through the tools I acquired over the years and I have an IR non contact thermometer. good for 600 C, about 1100 F, only thing is it measures surface temp. The other thermometers I...

Rick, I don't know, the stat was set to #7 on the lee dial and the lead was in there for about 20 minutes after melting.
I'll put it up to 8 next time I use it but the instructions said #7. When I...

Cheers RB, I thought that too.

Forgot to mention, reason why I used such awkward numbers was there was a third of a pot left in the Lee so I made it up to 10 pounds, the cast boolits are culls btw, they were the 2nd ones out the...

Been mixing up the alloys, started with 3 pound BHN 20, added 3 pounds of pure lead then 2 pounds lyman#2 then 2 pounds linotype.
Scratches easily with my thumbnail but there's just one thing wrong,...

I load PPU cases for 357 mag, 223, 30/30 and 308 with no problems but I use Lovex powder and started from the Lovex start at loads.Personally thought the brass was harder than Rem, Federal and W-W...

Mail boat still slow!! Hope your health is holding out.
It's not desperately difficult to get hunting, I belong to pigeon clubs where we are welcomed for crop protection but this is shotgun/airgun...

Cheers for that,Dale.

I loaded up 10 357 mag cases with around 6 grains of Universal and a 158 TC (silhouette boolit), not perfect tonight at the 25 yard indoor range but a step in the right direction.
I'm just making up...

Long pause since the last post, many thanks for all the info. Life intervened and most things went on a backburner but now that spring is coming I can get outside and put into practice what I've...

JonB finally got that page to load, mine of information, many thanks.

Sorry, should clarify, I normally load on a Lee classic turret press, the hand press I bought to load when I'm on hunting trips where the airlines impose limits on the amount of ammo that can be...