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I picked up some TAC but find loading data a challenge. I thought it would be good for .308 service rifle loads, but Hodgdon does not recommend it as a service rifle powder on their site. They also...

I'll take
M. RCBS 310-120-RN $60
if it's still available.
--DJ

I'm not a machinist, so can't offer much help but am interested in the project. I have made a couple of bumping dies out of old bolts using D-reamers (for bumping .30 carbine jacketed bullets up to...

I agree with sureYnot that it doesn't look like it could take much abuse suspended by the holes at the top, and with Winger Ed and others that it looks like a gate weight of some sort. Any chance...

CH4D lists them new for $260, but from what I understand, there may be an extended wait to get them.

Yours are used, but RCBS brand, which has a reputation at least equal to CH4D.

There is a...

Tried to post an "I'll take one" but it apparently didn't take.

Here is attempt #2.

--DJ

My dad was a reloader and a bullet caster. After he went missing in Viet Nam, when his reloading stuff came out of storage, my brothers and I hid it so my mom couldn't get rid of it (I think she...

I thought you meant this one.

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But it's a complete cartridge, not just a bullet.

I believe Matt, at https://maf-arms.com, is selling the dies. I had a hard time finding them through his menu, but a search for "dies" turned them up at $74.99. 11mm Gras was also listed. There...

The Starline brass is a little thin, and .308 is on the small side for bullet diameter, which probably accounts for your neck tension issue. The French C.I.P. (something like our SAAMI) lists the...

Here's a photo update. 322215

And his cousin.322217

Nice score on a good-looking pistol, and they are fun to shoot.

I made some brass from .50-70 (either Dixie or Bell--don't recall which) and some from .348 Winchester, but the necks were pretty...

Some of the black ones are also pretty big. I have a few ranging from .290 cu in to .579 cu in, which hold from 69.8g to 139.5g of black powder, or 1oz to 2oz of shot.

In comparison, the...

Years ago as a range safety officer I learned that 7mm Mauser would fire just fine in an 8mm Mauser rifle, although inaccurately. When I tried to point out that not all "Mauser" ammunition was the...

S&S Firearms advertises custom size lube sizer dies up to .600 in diameter. Their website says they stock common sizes and that uncommon sizes take 10-14 days.

I stumbled across this ad in the 1990 Handloaders' Bullet Making Annual, Vol. I. It reminded me how much reloading has changed over the years. I remember when 9mm Luger was uncommon, and my dad and...

Thanks for your comments.

The SKS goes to the range this weekend--I believe it has only been out once since my father deployed in 1971.

Wishing all a happy and reflective Memorial Day.

No, he was on a night, emergency, low-level resupply mission while An Loc was under siege in the Spring of 1972. They were dropping supplies to a soccer field--the largest flat surface available,...

Followup Question: Is there a list of cartridges that Quickload covers? I'm talking about the oddballs, like 8mm Nambu and 8mm Roth Steyr, for example.

From 1966 to 1968 I lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where my father, an air force pilot, was in a non-flying assignment in command of a radio intercept detachment. He befriended the local police...

Interesting video, but everybody seemed to jerk around at lightning speed. I ran it at 1/2 speed, and the movements seemed more normal--still a breakneck production pace. I especially liked the...

I was surprised to learn from the Safety Data Sheet linked to that site that liquified lead can cause thermal burns and that if you slop some lead onto your skin, you're supposed to leave it there...

Interesting video.
What Winchester is the middle tiger-hunter holding at 3:04 in the video? The guy to the left of him appears to have a Berdan II.

Both should fit all but the earliest Herters, which used a screw-in shell holder.

The pictured shell holders slip into the top of the ram, and then you tighten set screws on each side to keep...

Herters #27 is for a .41 Magnum.

Slot in the #1 shell holder indicates a later production model (i.e. early 1960s change) for presses that accommodated a spent primer catcher.