Operates just fine with cast bullets. Have used mine for years with 303, 8mm, 30-06 and even on a 2nd model dragoon cap & ball revolver. Currently using it on working up a load using green dot for a...
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Operates just fine with cast bullets. Have used mine for years with 303, 8mm, 30-06 and even on a 2nd model dragoon cap & ball revolver. Currently using it on working up a load using green dot for a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Toilet bowl wax rings. I melt two of them in an old steel dog food can on my hot plate and then use it for flux and case conversion sizing lube. After fluxing with wax I fill the top of the pot with...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I had a Uberti dragoon that the plunger would pull the ball back out of the chambers after ramming. I used a dremel tool with a round grinder and lightly polished the end of the plunger to remove any...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Quickload. I stopped using manuals about 20 years ago as they were not providing all the information I was looking for.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I also adjust mine between .003 to .005. Anything over .006 is to much for me.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I currently use American Pioneer Powder ffg. My second choice would be Pyrodex RS Select and my third choice would be Pyrodex RS for use in my sidelock percussion rifles with maxi or round balls. I...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I do have a set of Lyman, Saeco and Lee handles but they just sit inside the cabinet shelf. The ones I use everytime for the past 25 years is a locking pair that was made by cabin tree. The only mold...
Forum: Cast Boolits
The suggestion I recommend is looking at Accurate bullets online and see if Tom has something to fit your needs.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I would say that your alloy might be to soft. I mix my alloy and water quench drop from the mold. This produces a hardness between 24 to 27 bhn.
I have several brass and aluminum molds that Tom has made for me over the past years. All of them are excellent. As for the handles the ones I use are a locking type that cabin tree made several...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I'm a little surprised you were able to run version 3.4 on windows 10. As for windows I can't help you to much because I have been running linux os on my desktop's since 2006. I'm in the same camp as...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I make paper cartridges for revolvers so the wads are kept dry till I use them. During loading I'll place a small amount of crisco between the wad and ball unless I'm using conicals as the bess wax...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Wow. I remember using those when I first started shooting bp revolvers in 1971. I to think they were made by RWS in Germany.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
There are many different ways of making paper cartriges and all of them are good just depends on what you want to do. As for formers the ones sold by "guns of the west" seem to be used by many on...
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 |