I've been using a short collar strip cut from old shotshells to go around the ball, kinda works.
The buffer sounds like a good idea, thx.
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I've been using a short collar strip cut from old shotshells to go around the ball, kinda works.
The buffer sounds like a good idea, thx.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Progress report:
My frustration ( / confusion? ) with these alternate powders probably stems from procedure, not ingredients.
However, it led to making my first Holy Black. Didn't realize it was...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Thx for the response.
Purifying the KNO3 gave me a few tiny grains of dirt - agree not worth the effort.
How much difference would the aluminum flakes make? There's not much, got most of it...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Thanks for this GP thread, got me to do stuff instead of just thinkin about it.
GP complaints & suggestions...
I was convinced by a video to purify the KNo3, and to try
making charcoal.
...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Well mine don't lead at all, but do as you like.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I found some old 330 gn 44 boolits stashed away, sized & lubed. Heated enough to make the lube soft,
(edit: maybe boiled in water, can't remember)
dropped em in a plastic screw top container with...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I got lucky, my $10 ARC thrift store toaster oven dial reads correct temp according
to my lead thermometer (at 400°). I've been baking boolits around 300° and 12 min.,
they turn out great. See...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Preheating boolits works great, but I overheated a batch recently. Makes the powder act "damp".
Should have cleaned em off & started over but I baked em, turned out blobby, inconsistent.
They'll...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I know, old thread, my anecdote might not even be relevant but here goes:
One time I pulled out my old 303 Brit that I hadn't shot for over a year, looked down the bore and
OH (bleep)!, it was...
Forum: Leverguns
[QUOTE=Four-Sixty;5497411] ...Gate is stiff. It is a bit of work to load cartridges, but can largely be overcome with technique...
You can remove the gate, it's a flat one-piece item (gate and...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Maybe STP works in clocks 'cause they don't get so hot?
+1 on polishing dies, steel or aluminum, don't know about brass. I use Clover fine valve compound or
Mother's Mag Wheel polish, haven't...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Search swaging forum for lube, here's one:
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?444942-Making-swaging-lube&p=5432098&viewfull=1#post5432098
50/50 Lanolin/castor oil, heat to mix,...
Forum: Leverguns
Just got my 92 recently, 44 mag. Done some mods to make it feed right. Had a hard time gettin that screw back in.
The barrel band has an "up" side, be sure it's oriented properly. I just couldn't...
Forum: Swaging
"After that, it's simply a matter of lubing the bullet and brass, jamming the bullet into the brass (which bevels the rim into a boat tail); reversing the bullet in the same setup and swaging the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I think the deal is when you make 300blk you're making a neck out of what was the 556 case body.
Some brass doesn't have the taper in the body so it's thicker at that point, maybe too thick for a...
Always glad to help! :kidding:
If you're gonna swage the primer pockets anyway just run 'em all, pretty easy to spot the small ones
as it won't go in.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Yeah I fold the powder end & glue it to the side (like you do), then when all the stuff is in it I twist the ball end,
sticks out an inch or more like a handle to pull it out of the cartridge box....
Forum: Muzzleloading.
"Dowel rod"?
I used a stick.
Forgot you're supposed to trim the paper, I use the "end papers" at an angle, glue the point to the side,
drop a lubed wad (beeswax & crisco) on top of the powder,...
I have a few dozen too, set 'em aside to avoid confusion, BUT...
I found about 20 7.62X39 that take small primers (large primer pocket swage tool wouldn't go in),
they're all RP brass. Is that...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Nope, no experience with that but I would think it's easier to make some cardboard overshot cards for
45 LC brass. Maybe a light crimp then glue 'em in with white glue or silicone (I've done 12ga...
Forum: Cast Boolits
from 300blktalk.com
http://www.300blktalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=88599&hilit=brass+list
Part of the list shows acceptable brass, the other part is not so great brass.
I sort the 556...
Forum: Swaging
Dang, I'll have to watch that one again!
I know I've seen it but can't remember what's goin on... :confused:
Forum: Our Town
Yep he was very young & well behaved. After all I did him a favor.
Sorry for skunk post in snake thread but it seemed right at the time!
PS: I caught a "hog nose rattler" when I was a kid, sold...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Looks good, now u can make em purty in a short citric acid soak and
a ride in the tumbler.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I read in Castboolits somewhere about the zinc in the brass giving it a lubricity with steel,
probably slides better than copper down the bore.
Propane torch method is easy and cheap, just don't...
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