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Somebody;
That sounds to me like you should be good to go. If you make sure your media is non sparking and your powder has no contaminates that can cause sparking and if you mill small quantities,...

I have to either press my pucks out of the die, as well. Or, use a dead blow hammer on the piston, which seems to be quicker. I don't have blow-by, but as Ham said, the side pressure is just very...

Graysmoke;
That's a common problem, and there are a couple of things that may help you. Put a spacer or two between the piston and powder, and that can help the blow by reduce. This is where the...

StevenDJ;
.451 Speer Round Balls, 138 grain; with Old Wonder Wads, and CCI #11 caps.
My wife said they made beautiful lead Sun Flowers. ha
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I shot the new (to me) brass framed Pietta .44 today, for the first time. My flask nozzle dropped an average of 19.4 grains on ten drops of reprocessed fines; so that was how I loaded the cylinder. ...

LAGS;
I see no reason your aluminum won't work. I would think it should do very well.
Many moons ago, Linstrum posted about our plastic spacers. He said the milk jug spacers that I have been...

I tested the re-milled and reprocessed fines, that I had left over from several batches. I got mixed results, but a couple of good ones.
The most notable thing I found, was, they have great...

LAGS;
You're right. I only check puck density, to know if I'm close to the Commercial powder. If a person is satisfied with the loaded density of the powder, or can adjust for the difference, it may...

LAGS;
Absolutely. If it is different, then they used a different density of powder. And, at times they do. That is why they combine more than one block (puck) of powder in each run of powder. So...

One CC, or 1 ML of Distilled Water weighs 1 gram or 15.4324 grains. Measures are calculated on this.
1.7 Grams Per CC is what Commercial powders are compressed to. At least that is what I've read...

Thanks for the input guys.
HW; you may have said something which would keep this idea in the could have been. I never thought about all the powder trying to change direction, to get out. You may...

My first thoughts for using what we have, is something I already have and don't use. An air hose off my air compressor to attach to my 20 ton hydraulic jack, with a regulator built in. Mine didn't...

LAGS;
I hear you about this site being about home made powder. The thing is, we already have the press, the die and piston, and only lack the extruder head, to use what we already are using. ...

Guys, I'm sorry to make so many posts, but I have an idea for a couple of years, that I have to share. It could be very easily adapted to our use, which would cut process times by half, or more....

indian joe;
I hear ya on the experimenter part. haha. That's pretty much all I do. For me, seeing what I can do and can't do, and where I can gain an inch, is almost as fun as shooting. One day,...

HW;
I broke the pucks up mostly by hand, and the rest with my puck buster. I screened all the powder off, and ran all of it through my ceramic blade coffee grinder. I put it through a 10 screen...

I finished re-milling, re-pucking, and re-processing the mixed together fines.
It made 305.680 Grams of finished powder, after original screening of <20 >40, then tumbled and polished a total of...

HighUintas;
Yesterday, I pressed a few pucks from fines I had collected over the last few batches. I found something else that can cause your die to lift; cycling the press.
I put first one, and...

PMA-440;
I believe you get the Extreme MacGyver Excellence In Using What U Got Award (EMEIUWUG)!!
AND, you're making some real nice looking powder! We'll have to get MacGyver himself to personally...

Ham, oddly enough, I'm doing the same thing. I just finished drying and re-milling about a pound of fines left over after the last run of several batches. Combined them all, and already had 4%...

Yes, T-J. All weighed. I weigh everything and put them in individual lidded vials, before shooting. I'm using the same setup as you and 93% is actually pretty good density. I usually shoot for...

TrapperJack;
I think you are exactly right on the charcoal and I think our method of making the powder may make it require different ratios to perfect.
Every time I have deviated from 75-15-10, I...

I use a two piece die. Recently, I do use a plastic milk jug spacer at the bottom of the die, like LAGS; but never had a problem with powder loss, before. Something is not square or flat, or plumb,...

LAGS;
I was going to get the .45 FMJ RN, myself. When I started looking, I found the 9mm 149's were on sale. So, I went that way. They cost me .20 cents per, total. And, 250 weighed just what I...

HighUintas;
I looked at those same bullets, before I bought the ones I got. I was concerned for the same reason you are.
This is where and what I bought, but I think they are sold out. 250 count...