Yeah, I'm not making insinuations. I just bought a Tanfoglio with poly rifling in fact. What I'm interested in is bullets sticking in throats and what makes them work for some people and not for...
Type: Posts; User: cityofthesouth
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Yeah, I'm not making insinuations. I just bought a Tanfoglio with poly rifling in fact. What I'm interested in is bullets sticking in throats and what makes them work for some people and not for...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Are you guys running factory barrels? Kevin, are you also loading to 1.13+?
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
What's your loaded OAL for those?
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Just wanted to put this somewhere, it's possible that it has been discussed in other threads but this thread talked about the Lee 38 S&W expander plug so it makes sense here I think. A friend of mine...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Sorry, I don't check in very regularly. I actually don't even weigh the powder. I just take a teaspoon of powder filled loosely level, and do 25ML acetone to every teaspoon. I also swish out my...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I do the whole thing diluted compared to the recipe. My opinion - based on somewhere between 10K and 15K bullets without ever experiencing any coating failure, including recovery of many fired...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Yep for sure. It took me a few coating sessions to realize this. What really put me on to it is that over many sessions my Tupperware gets a heavy build up of coating in the corners where I dump the...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Been clicking through all the pages I have missed since I last visited and saw some talk about using old, dried up coating. I do this every time I get ready to coat. I tumble in a Tupperware type...
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Yeah you need the Lee 38 S&W expander plug to expand the brass deeper and a touch more - just buy the plug from Lee and drop it into your 9mm die. I have a friend struggling with 147s. I can't see...
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I live in Kansas where the climate can vary from 30% humidity to 90% day-to-day throughout the summer (or worse if we get rain), and from 110F in the summer to single digits in the winter. I coat all...
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Haha! Maybe so.
I have been using the powder and I can't see any reason to stop. As far as it sitting around, I don't see much reason to let it sit around, but with that said, whenever I...
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Cherry showed up, converted some wheel weights into bullets and here we go. First run with the Cherry and basically same results as the black - nice and slick. Probably obvious but these have been...
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I have, mostly by accident, trial, error, been using a thinner mix than the instructions. I have to tumble them a little longer but I like the extra time and I roll them onto my tray the very second...
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Lee molds and black HiTek. I'm over 6k ... maybe 7K but it's getting hard for me to keep track without writing something down which just ain't gonna happen. Got Black Cherry on order because the...
Forum: Castpic of the Month
Yeah that's smart. Here's mine. Feel free to use however.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4427/35929036290_ddfd8e4c1b_o.jpg9mm_HiTek3 by city_ofthe_south, on Flickr
Lee 125gr mold with straight...
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Wise man once said, any file you don't have 3 copies of, is a file you don't care about.
ETA: Not to be construed to suggest that PB is not a car full of clowns for doing this to folks, cause...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Thanks Rick, I am feeling pretty good about it at this point and I am really happy I went with the P09. Monthly 3-gun match is this up coming weekend and the P09 is tagging in for the 1911 for its...
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More pics. This time I set out to shoot a control group. CZ knows how to make an accurate gun I can say that much. I got some American Eagle 115gr FMJs that in my experience shoot well in general....
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Hey I brought you guys some pics you don't care about.
Went back to try the Lee lube groove bullets. Sized 358 my P09 does this mostly group well and then some crazy fliers thing. So then I went...
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What mold? They look just like the Lee bullets I've been casting. 90457.
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So this post isn't as lame, have some pics. The Lee bullets I'm using now with black Hi-Tek and the blaster that ingests a lot of them.
...
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Last post was April of '16 and I wanted to circle back around (been meaning to for awhile) to share my results. I have now cast, coated, and loaded nearly 5,000 rounds. Still shooting them in a...
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Next experiment is to seat some unsized bullets and pull them to see if they are being sized to a desirable figure (.357 maybe) during seating. If that works out, sizing will be a thing of the past....
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I got the 38 S&W plug but have only had time to load 10 to test. Bullets were coated with Hi-Tek.
-I loaded 3.5gr of Tightgroup which would have given me keyholes and poor accuracy before.
-With...
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 |