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I’ve seen a scattered few loads for shot with nitro card and cork or felt wads in the BPI advantages manual. There’s a a few more loads with a plastic gas seal and fiber...
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Welcome to the forum!
I’ve seen a scattered few loads for shot with nitro card and cork or felt wads in the BPI advantages manual. There’s a a few more loads with a plastic gas seal and fiber...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Once Mr Gibson chimes in, I stop and listen. I’d like to go to summer camp for a week at his place when I grow up. Imagine what you would learn looking over his shoulder!
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
https://bulletmatch.com/pages/lead-alloy-calculator
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
That’s quite the accomplishment! I have one of those Lee hollow point molds. I didn’t have great results with it. When I finally got it to cast with a good fill-out, I had more rejects due to the...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Have you cast hollow points from pure/soft lead? Pointers on how you did it is exactly what I’m looking for with this thread.
Thanks
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Thanks for the tips!
I found those photos on your website. Signed up for the newsletter while I was there.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Ugh
I don’t want information on making an alloy. I want information on using lead as it is. The searches are full of how to alloy lead.
Post five in the link said to run the pot hot. That was...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Maybe I missed it. Where did it talk about using pure lead instead of turning it into an alloy with wheel weights or solder joints or other sources of tin?
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I’ll admit my search skills are weak. I looked at the stinkies at the top of the section.
I’m looking for tips for casting with soft lead and doing it cheaply. My stash is some lead cable...
So do you select pellet size to fit the choke or do you assemble a load and then tinker with chokes?
I tried it in 38 special and 357 when I first got the mold. It would crimp in the crimp groove and fit the cylinder in 38 special.
Have you done any performance testing with your loads? One...
Million dollar question
For lead buckshot at normal useful buckshot range, is 0.005” to 0.010” of “mash” on the pellets detrimental to patterns?
Personally, I haven’t done enough testing to...
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Look at that! A photo finally posted right side up for a change.
For those of you interested in cat sneeze loads, I found this interesting.
http://guns.connect.fi/gow/arcane1.html
My goal for this 200 grain load was “silent without a silencer” and I got pretty close with a 16” barrel. I would like a 24” barrel for further drop in muzzle pressure. Then hopefully I could...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Welcome to the forum!
Excellent question for a first post! I feel like I read somewhere that H110 loads get a 3% reduction from maximum and most other powder calls for a ten percent reduction...
Was the difference in data for different crimp? Does a roll crimp generate more pressure?
Did you check the weights of the powder and shot dropped?
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Congratulations!
Do you need three phase power to run your machines?
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
6.5 hours. 414 miles one way.
How many buckets full do you want to get rid of?
Thanks
What an excellent idea! Thank you!
I have some 0.440” round balls I acquired in an auction and was trying to figure out ways to use them in 12 gauge. Buried in shot worked but is wasteful and...
Forum: Shot Guns
There are some loads in the bpi Coyote manual using longshot and blue dot. OB16 gas seal and nitro cards on top of that. Teflon wrap around the shot, if you are placing an order. Or I can give you...
All this talk about 410 buckshot has me thinking. I bought some TPS wads for tungsten turkey loads. Now I can’t wait to get home and see if number one buckshot fits in them?
Six of the #1 BAM...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I’d like to see photos of the contents of the bucket of “lead” you got. I bet it’s rich with antimony and was someone’s stash for enriching soft lead before you got it.
And I really really like...
Forum: Our Town
Isn’t Vista Outdoors selling the ammunition side to a foreign entity already? It is in the works, if it isn’t done already.
I wonder if Alliant powder will become even more difficult to find?
Do you have another nifty formula like that for stacking by fours?
Forum: Cast Boolits
Somewhere in all the chapters before the load data, Richard Lee says it’s okay to substitute a slightly lighter bullet in place of a heavier one. Modern Reloading Second Edition by Richard Lee.
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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 |