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I have a 2 groove Remington 03A3 and it shoots cast pretty good with one exception, I get perfect boat shaped keyholes about 1 of every 5 shots of a 311365 loaded with 13gr of Red Dot. There is a...

SARCO has some nice ones too in case you still end up looking.

You might try 4064 if the 4895 didn't do it for you. I have had a little better results with it in an M1 that didn't like the 4895 under the boolit I was slinging at the time. It has become my...

Well the expander isn't really supposed to open up the neck too large or you would have no tension but I know what you mean, your 7.62x54R set must be like mine. I haven't really loaded up much of...

Dang, I'm going to have to go check out the NOE site. I didn't know they were making those!

I had some issues with run-out in 30-06 when I first attempted cast. I got a Lyman M-die and that helped immensely.

I can't give much load advice for the Blue Dot or Herco but I do have this mold and I have shot it out of my 03A3. I think mine is the fatter of the variants, I have had problems with it not fitting...

If yours is anything like mine they'll likely turn around and come back at you.

One thing I have learned about the M1 though - they are all unique in some way. Maybe it is character or just old...

I don't know how this would affect a 308 tanker but in a regular old 30-06 Garand I have found that my min operable load with IMR 4064 and a 198gr cast boolit will go two completely different...

Oh I think you are absolutely correct Hang Fire, for a battle sight it probably served quite well. Nice and beefy to boot which is another good quality for a combat arm but if someone wants to do...

As I'm sure you noticed the front sight is also incredibly wide. It is a fairly common modification to slim it down so that it doesn't look like a shovel handle covering your target. If it is a...

Hymn.... I use the 30 cal Lyman M die for my 30-06 stuff and I can't say I have ever collapsed a case with it. It is very easy to get the noble beginnings of turning one inside out. If you are...

I think most of what you have there is caused by dragging the strips through the die for punching. Basically, it is deburring the sharp edges of the strips as you pull them through.

I get some of...

Yep, Plenty of "the load" rounds have been run through my M1s.

No auto loading of course but they are great for getting those less inclined to touch the old war birds for fear of recoil on the...

Yep - Lubriplate 130-A, it's still available.

If you want or need to shoot new factory ammo, PPU is producing a new Ball M2 load.

Last time I checked it was available at most of the larger online sources.

I think you need both!

I have a couple of rifles (milsurps) that do that very thing to (some) RIFLE primers. I just load with the hard-cup 7.62 primers in these now.

Not all rifles are created equally and not all...

In the berms I have mined, most of the good stuff is in the top 3 inches of the surface of the berm. I have an old galvanized pail about 3 or 4 gallon size with the bottom cut out and expanded metal...

The test loads look great!

As long as those babies chamber, you are certainly on the right track.

I have a small lot of Tula Steel cases that I am reloading as an experiment to see how long they last until they split.

Thus far I am on reload #5 and have lost zero to splits but have just...

I know nothing about powder coating but I do load both the 311365 as well as the 311299 for my M14. It's not an AR but it is a 308 autoloader and both seem to feed just fine for me.

Mine has a number on the bolt handle like that, I never really thought of it being a lend lease mark. I may have to look into that.

As far as the OP's rifle in the pictures is concerned - tell...

What you should really be asking yourself is "what is the MIN load of 4895?"

Accuracy is typically found in the lower end of the operating spectrum of loads for the M1, not the max. You should try...

I form 7.7 from 30-06 with no problems as well.

Like mentioned above I think it really just depends on the chamber and what you are willing to do to achieve results.

It will be a fun project...