I feel I don’t get “much” powder on the foil as waste. Not much powder has to be coming out of the gun for it to work. My cheap HF gun can send a bunch out at once now and then if I’m not careful,...
Type: Posts; User: birdadly
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I feel I don’t get “much” powder on the foil as waste. Not much powder has to be coming out of the gun for it to work. My cheap HF gun can send a bunch out at once now and then if I’m not careful,...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Haha very nice idea!! Very creative. -BD
Forum: In Remembrance
Very sorry for your loss Tom. It sounds like he was ready and is now at peace. My dad of 85 left us last fall. You and your family will be okay and he’ll always be with you and I’m sure never...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Many of us stand each bullet on a nut, or a bolt head (I do this) and then usually there is no flashing and a bit of powder even sticks to the bottom edges of the bullet. I have a pic of my tray,...
Forum: Our Town
69 degrees yesterday... 6” of snow coming tomorrow night... Ugh, so close! -BD
Forum: Our Town
Sent. This is very very cool. Thx for inviting us to help out. -Brad
Forum: Our Town
Hickory, thanks for posting. Getting something like this off our chests is important so I’m glad you did. I’m going to take advantage and do the same...
My dad (now 84) is 2 years into his...
Forum: Our Town
Yeah i think those numbers are type. JBinMN is right a Mills Fleet Farm, a midwest company. They have one aisle for reloading and there’s always odd items being clearances. From RCBS tools, to...
Forum: Our Town
Forgot to mention, deer bow season opened a couple weekends ago, so be careful out there! -Brad
Forum: Our Town
Sooo, it wasn’t me unfortunately, but how do you think the first guy to come across these primers responded to what he stumbled across???
... did he look around for cameras to see if he was on a...
Forum: Our Town
Must be heading up north for bears? Around Green Bay the leaves are just barely starting to change so I’m assuming up there should be a little more colorful, hopefully anyway, it’ll be nice for you...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
That was awesome to watch. Thank you for finding it and sharing. -Brad
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Found this tonight at Goodwill. It wasn’t 50% off so I almost put it back... before looking it up on my phone first. I don’t know if they’re actually selling for this price, and I’m sure mine is beat...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Also changing is the dang scrapyard! I haven’t brought my junk (steel) wheel weights there in about 3 years, but today they gave me Steel price ($.08/lb) unless I could tell them they’re all lead! I...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Nearly full bucket of wheel weights, about 2” of room left at the top...
74# steel
7# zinc
23# SOWW
36# COWW
140# total. Cost $13 for donuts and Mt Dew for the workers. I’ll get that back...
Forum: Cast Boolits
You mention holding the muffin pan. I don’t know if that means you’re actually holding it up while pouring the lead into it or not... but if so, ideally have the muffin pan, or ingot mold or...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I love those! Got a bunch at a cheap price and store my sorted brass in them! Nice to hear they have good CS. -Brad
Forum: Cast Boolits
I’m surprised they didn’t melt down the sides!
Forum: Our Town
After reading this I realized my Scheels credit card is thru First Bankcard... bummer. I may look for something with actual cash back instead of in-store credit I suppose. It’s my only card so not...
This is what I plan to try in my 357 as well. Only did some casting so far as I’m waiting for Midway to get Hornady dies in stock next week. Will powder coat and hope for the best! Will be first...
This was in Northeast WI. It was a private collection of 251 guns. These were his pistols (all but 4-5). Apparently they auctioned his long-guns off last fall. He was a S&W fan. The PDF is 2MB so i...
Thanks so much for the replies everyone!
Definitely lots to learn. I’ve casted/reloaded now for 7 years, mostly 9mm, 40, 45acp and a little 22 rifle. So no revolvers yet. The crimp is definitely...
Hi everyone. I know we all like pictures, and they help keep my momentum, so here’s a new post. I’ve been slacking w/reloading/casting since buying my new house 3.5 years ago and moving further from...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
The dual voltage is on an even bigger sale for $99. $60 off of regular price. I didn't look into it to see if it's better than the single volt yet though, but only $10 more! ...it's got me thinking...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I've only started loading rifle rounds but my first 120 rounds I had to pull the bullets from 30 of them, and I think it was, 5 of them the gas check came off and stayed in the brass! (figure I'm not...
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 |