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Let me clear this. You say Tanner Moulds, do you mean BallMoulds? My search for Tanner Moulds showed a nearly empty ebay page and BallMoulds.

I appreciate your offer. As much as I wanted to put up a WTB ad by the way I checked the rules beforehand. I don't quite qualify yet, as I require thirty meaningful posts first.
I had also checked...

I just checked Tanner's stuff. Nice things but ultimately only had one available mold.
Bedbug, that's right I'm looking for 60 caliber or 58 caliber round ball. Something that plays nice with my...

So I just Thursday got my Sea Service Pistol, a mice handsome firelock, and suddenly every seller of appropriate moulds is fresh out of the things. Did some movie come out and suddenly everyone...

For one, everywhere I looked flags the .427 size die as discontinued. They don't seem to be anywhere I can find.
Secondly, most .44 bores today use .429-.430 bores. While soft lead will bump up...

As a collector of antique rifles like the krags, I will personally beg you not to destroy an original piece. If you're dead set on a sporterized krag, get one that's already sporterized and change...

Frogg,

Yes it has the properly formed flaring cone.
The issue though is the edge of the bullet gets deformed and stuck in the crimper stage.
I'm thinking I'll try the Old West Bullet Molds...

Surprisingly it still retains the original decapping/flaring pin. It's been working reliably.
I'm so far stuck using the .429 bullets, as both my Henry and Schofield use .429 bullets.

I've...

Thanks Jim. That particular model seems to be discontinued unfortunately but I'll keep digging around for something similar, or maybe an original mould. I'll follow up with results when I find out.

A bullet cast from pure lead in a Lee 44-40 bullet mold.

I'm not home at the moment, had to get dragged out by the household.
That's about the sum of what I see going on though. It looks like a deep ring forming around the bullet ogive close to the rim,...

I've been battling an old Winchester reloading tool the past day and a half. It works fine until I try seating and crimping the bullet in. At that point it mangles the bullet and refuses to let it...

Forgot to say. I wasn't able to test my 60 grain loads yet today. I'll try as soon as I can tomorrow likely.

It has a traditional ramrod catch. No, it's not broken. It's actually set pretty solid in the stock.

As for lube, Lyman Alox bullet lube.

I've been using both Goex and Schutzen powder, both FFG granulation.
Cleaning the rifle, I find that after a patch I get usually powderized fouling.
As I lack a chronograph, I am unable to...

I'm a little financially tight at the moment so new moulds are out of the question for now. However I can at the very least try fiddling around with resizing bullets for my Martini Henry. 480 grains...

So far you and everyone else is seeing my exact confusion.
So to clarify to you though, I have numerous groups of 2, 2, 2, 2, etc all around my target.
It's newish brass, Winchester variety. As...

I figured it's more of a gunsmithing matter than anything else, an issue with the rifle requiring correction. Like something is moving that isn't supposed to be.

Gentlemen, I have a mighty strange case here. I have an 1884 Springfield Trapdoor. It's getting some really strange groups but I'll explain my load details first.
I've tried two bullets so far. Both...