The trick is either fresh powder or to take care of your powder to keep it fresh. I transfer my 2 pounds of powder from the main container ziplock bag into a smaller 1/4 pound ziplock bag and use...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
The trick is either fresh powder or to take care of your powder to keep it fresh. I transfer my 2 pounds of powder from the main container ziplock bag into a smaller 1/4 pound ziplock bag and use...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Take a look at your powder after you finish tumbling and compare it to some fresh powder. If it is darker, you now have powderized lead in your powder. That is no problem on your bullets because...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I place the bullets in ammo trays nose down then flip them onto the parchment covered baking sheet. I use 2 $20 Walmart toaster ovens and leap frog them coating and placing boolits while the other is...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Have you slugged your barrels? If they slug at 0.355", there is no reason to size your bullets any bigger than that. The pressures should bump the bullets to obturate in the barrel to prevent...
Forum: Deep Theological Discussion
People have been wanting to know the end of times since the disciples asked Jesus in the first century. The more important question people must answer is "am I ready to meet the LORD now?" Are you...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Be very careful of electric oven heating elements, especially exposed elements. You might set the temperature of the oven to 400F but the red hot heating elements are way above the melting point of...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
I used to use 45/45/10 of LLA/JPW/OMS but I heard there really isn't a need for the JPW other than it thickens and solidifies the lube on the bullet. When it does solidify, it feels like firm wax...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
The strongest influence on thinning LLA is heat. Try scooping a piece from your bottle and placing it in a pan and heating it. You'll see that it becomes as runny as water or even thinner. You can...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
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wilecoyote's data page using 240g bullets corresponds almost exactly with Quickload and the Lyman 245g cast bullet.
11.6g gets you 1186fps with a peak pressure of 29,300 psi and 13.2g gets you...
I'm seeing 35-37,000 psi depending on the actual bullet profile. I can see your M&P45 handling it for a few shots but a stock 1911 was not made for these pressures. An M&P45 barrel and slide is...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Measure the diameter of the case mouth with a bullet loaded vs. a sized but unloaded case and you’ll see how much the bullet bulges the brass. I usually size my pc bullets to .358” also in order to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
The Walther PDP uses what's called a stepped chamber. That's where the first few 10ths of an inch are within SAAMI limits but does not follow a straight line from the case head to the case rim and...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Yup, I used to use a paper towel moistened with Oderless Mineral Spirits to clean off 45/45/10 just to keep debris from sticking to the exposed parts of the boolits plus it keeps my hands cleaner at...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I have a 2 pound bag of powder coat powder. I open it up maybe once a year to put some powder into a screw top container. When powder coating, I take the half teaspoon amount of powder to coat about...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I bought one of these $17 jigs to cut 300 AAC Blackout cases from 5.56 cases using the Harbor Freight chop saw.
ZOEKIM 300 Blackout Case Cut off Trimming Jig Fixture Forming Trimmer Guard...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
OP is sizing before powder coating. There is no need for that. I always powder coat before sizing. I've even cast, powder coated and sized on the same day even though that's probably frowned upon...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Here's a decent idea:
https://support.leeprecision.net/en/knowledgebase/article/lee-pro-4-20-stripped-6-shoulder-bolt-for-valve-arm-assembly
The brass eyelet allows free movement of the arm so...
Forum: Casting Equipment
With most PID's, autotune measures the temperature vs time as it reaches its setpoint and adjusts the pulsed of power based on how quickly or how slowly the temperature reaches the set point. ...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Cleaning after shooting is probably the reason your bores are not rusted. One of the early claims was that you didn't need to clean your bores for 3-500 rounds and that getting the molybdenum...
Make sure your wad petal measurements include any ribs along the petals. I recall the Winchester AA 12 GA wads had a vertical rib in the petal which bulged the hull when I seated a Lee slug in it....
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I think the OP was gifted an incomplete used LnL AP so the packing grease is probably long gone but he should get a can of One Shot gun cleaner and dry lube anyway along with a grease gun with zerk...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I live in McKinney but I'm out of town for the week and busy the next 3 weekends. Read the following and if you're still stuck, we might be able to meet in the evening.
Make sure you have the LnL...
As with gwp, 5.0g works very well with 115-124g bullets. It will cycle any pistol and is not going to blow up a gun. That much Unique will definitely overflow a 9mm case with 10g so you won’t have to...
Forum: Factory Rifles
I have a RARR 16" in both 5.56 and 300 BO. I got the 5.56 on sale from a gun store that was closing its doors for $300. Unfortunately, it is the old version with the 5 round rotary magazine. I got...
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 |