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I read here a fair bit but never post anymore. I have to make an exception and say that is absolutely a beautiful project you're working on. Nice work!

-Chris

Your question is why I use a separate crimp die for .45 Colt.

Having said that, I seat and crimp with the same die for 38,357, and 45-70. Crimps aren't critical with lighter loads. With full...

Start with rimmed handgun cartridges, then semi-auto pistol cartridges, then move to rifle cartridges for bolt/pump/lever rifles, then move to semi-auto rifles last, if at all.

Most mold makers that publish estimated BCs are as wildly optimistic now as big-named jacketed bullet makers were 40 years ago. On this one, though, the Lee version shows an estimated BC of .18ish,...

-Rub doesn't really matter. Salt and pepper and red pepper, or maybe some Tony Chacere's seasoning, maybe some paprika, use ground yellow mustard in the cheap squirt jar to stick it to the meat....

First update - I ordered some paper to try today, online. Then a couple hours later I was cutting some parchment paper to wrap a brisket in, and it hit me - hey, there's a big roll of thin paper in...

I don't remember the last time I weighed a bullet intended to be fired from a handgun, except to see how heavy a bullet was from a new mold. I couldn't possibly care less about weight-sorting handgun...

Thank you!!!!

Off to buy some patch material right now. :grin:

Thanks! So you can patch and then size afterwards? That's the sort of thing I needed to know.:grin:

Thanks! So you can patch and then size afterwards? That's the sort of thing I needed to know.

Lee push-through sizers are $20. Better yet, get the NOE sizing kit that takes different bushings for different sizes.

As for 'good quality alloy'...I have been casting for 8 years (practically a...

I started with the Lyman kit and a few Lee 2-cavity molds. Would do that again.

You do NOT need fancy molds or hollow points to make your guns go bang. Current production Lee molds are an...

They'll expand in both directions - inside and out.

If anything, he needs to freeze the cases, not that I'd go that route to start with.

For some time now I have wanted something big-bore in .35 to .45 caliber. After toying with several options I ended up with a '75 vintage model 1895 Marlin. It was the straight stocked version. I...

Brass can age-harden and it's possible that brass that was fine - maybe barely within proper hardness specs when loaded - could age out of the proper hardness range.

Many years ago I stored a...

That's a gorgeous rifle.

Before I got the 45-70 I was considering a .350 Legend AR upper and I found a guy on another forum who was using that bullet (I asked about it specifically) in his with good results.

IIRC they call it 'clean 22'.

That is gorgeous. Just wow.

When my grandfather died the family was in turmoil and while I did end up with a few things, there were several I would have loved to have gotten - would have happily paid for - that vanished. Long...

FWIW newer 444s from Marlin have a 1-20" twist.

The only thing that would make me hesitate to buy one is that they are limited in Cartridge OverAll Length by the 336 action. But let's face it -...

It's hard for me to guess as to what a rifle might do, but I can tell you that there's more than 6" difference between a fast ~250 and a slow ~350 at 50 yards with my 5.5" .45 Colt Bisley Blackhawk. ...

As much as I like my NOE and MP molds, for a beginner, a guy could do a lot worse than to buy a Lee mold and lap it out a couple thousandths too big, then let it get hot, as Lees do so quickly, then...

In my experience with other calibers, and with a wide variety of loads in my .45 Colt Blackhawk, lighter bullets print lower, and faster bullets print lower, in terms of how bullet weight and speed...

The '73 is the last action I'd want to hotrod.