At lawnsteel yestersay, we took a look at PeeWee's castings. They were a little underfilled at the edges. A little tin solder will fix that right up. Hardness was right where it was supposed to be. He's well on his way.
PeeWee didn't do well at the range. It's not his reloading, it's his shooting, including trigger pull, grip, etc.
I brought by best fried Andy to shoot with us. On Monday, I gave Andy some trigger time with my 38 special contender barrel. Walked him through all the finesse of dealing with this gun. Of course, I won't allow him to touch the sights, they are set perfectly for me. So, he spent the time Monday,. and again yesterday (Wednesday) dealing with aiming in some space not specifically where the targets were. Andy managed to get into both games that he shot in, earlier than PeeWee did. The "new guy" (Andy) did well.
PeeWee delivered (to me) an 8# container of Promo powder, the preferred powder for 38 caliber lawnsteel. I'm in business again. I was down to less than 100 cartridges of Red Dot.
PeeWee is coming by the house this morning, and I'll lend him my 44 caliber sizing die for the Lyman Lubricizer, and a top punch that will work with his castings. I'm also giving him some anhydrous lanolin that I got from Randy Rat ( http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...ydrous-Lanolin ) , so that PeeWee can make some spray lube for rifle brass. I have packaged three small film containers with lanolin. One film canister, mixed with two bottles of HEET (RED) dry gas, which is 99% isopropyl alcohol, in a dollar store spray bottle, makes almost a quart of great spray lube, essentially the same as Dillon's great lube. So, thanks for the powder, Keith.
After a full morning of lawnsteel, Andy and I went to Gunarea's land, and did some pig hunting. No animals were injured, but there are tons of them out there.