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^ now this man knows what he is talking about, Hatch is a WEALTH of information on this topic and I hate to admit some sort of defeat in my personal skills but I'm referring to his knowledge on...

Your point is valid indeed, if you use a muffler on the exaust ports of the pneumatic the noise is pretty low especially if you run the cylinder at lower PSI's than full tilt. My friend has an...

Why use a motor, use pneumaitcs it's cheeper to do and a lot easier.

AWESOME that's a great thread, I'm subscribed to it... hope to gain some awesome info there.

HollowPoint your inforamtion is invaludable to me. This is EXACTLY what I am looking to do in a 175 gr bullet for my .308.

I'd love to pick your brain on this, what part of AZ do you live in???

Yes i have come to the right place, I've been on the board for years more or less as a lurker and never really adding much or responding to many posts. As you can tell from my join date in 2008,...

Sorry for the lack of response lately, I've been working in my yard and redoing it getting ready for summer... then we deicded on Saturday morning to get a 8 week old puppy. Needless to say I've...

magma would convert molds but they have limits. Yea the magma molds have to be steel, the clammering of the machine will wear out an aluminum mold much quicker than a steel. The steel molds just...

I've noticed that, I hate the idea of dealing with NEI but they are about the only place that I can go to for a truly custom mold for a Magma. No one else really wants to cut one.

An idea for a mold to tear up would be an Ideal 311413, heck it would be similar to what I would do in the first place anyway. I'd like to experiment with something similar to what I am going to use...

You've both brought up great points here. My issue is that I don't cast by "hand" like most people do where as I use a Magma Master caster so I need to have iron molds otherwise I will tear the hell...

I agree you do need a balance between riding the bore and long slender nose. I'm entirely not sure which way I am going to go here on this, it's either take what's out there for say $75 bucks or...

I agree, however I would think that the same thing applies as it does in FMJ boolits. I dont think it would deform the nose, more than likely we would have an impact to the base of the boolit.

It's a couple hundred buck experiment too... UGH!

We'll I'm sure this is going to open a huge can of worms... SO here it goes.

I'm going to have a custom mold made, it seems what I want no one makes so I have to go 100% custom made for what I...

Yea I like speed, I've got a slew of powders here to work with and work up from. I have all of 2013 to develop this load, to be honest I will do whatever it takes to run 175-180 gr 30 caliber cast...

are you running an older version that's not windows 7 or win 8 compatible?

Here, I used what you had on your target for a baseline for data. if you want me to drop in other variables let me know,...

That bullet is INSANELY close to what I am looking for! The weight being at 200gr (+/-) is a bit too heavy to properly push out there like I am wanting to do, but at the same token it get's that...

Blammer that's a great group! What is your speed????

Yea i'd like to shoot sub 1" groups at 100 yards if possible, or else i will stick with SMK's.

Look for the magma 147 RNFP on fleabay and see what you can trump up. That's an amazing bullet, super accurate shooting in 9 and 38!

I'm so thankfuly I have a friend who's a commercial caster and...

RCBS is the only mold that needs the sides "opened up a bit", i believe it's about .002" or so. The lyman and ideal's both accomidate the magma brackets perfectly. The lyman and ideal both use a...

Here's what I am looking at, I am shooting long range matches. I'm really growing tired of spending $0.35 per bullet for 175 gr SMK's when I know i can cast a 175's for a lot less than that. I...

I'm looking for something for .308 around 175-180 grains and the weight here seem to fit the bill. I am looking for something in a spitzer design that can be used in my Magma MasterCaster.

I will...

I have the master caster and you can use any mold you'd like to in there. IMO Magma makes good quality molds, that being said I would prefer to save the money if I can and get Lyman, RCBS, or even...