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i think a little difference needs to be made between reloading for profit and reloading amoungst friends.

places to shoot are limited in our area, but i have set up an extensive range/birm, it...

well, my first lube experience is over, you would think idgits like me would know better than to not just follow the advice of the stickies...

lesson #1 once you have to much lube on a bullet,...

i have found that they melt at higher tempts allot of the time, a tell tale sign of zinc, i scim off the floaters when everything else has melted, but other than that no issues....

thanx for the advice, i am only 2x fired, so i haven't experienced any failures yet, and i am no where near max loads, only at 90% but getting some good results for a $400 factory gun, i have a...

not real sure this is the best forum for the question, but is there a "home" remedy for anealing brass? i am thinking of my toaster oven for this project, but don't know what temps are required,...

guys e-bay has its place in the market place, maybe not so much for us shooters, but it does. my best example is i had an old chainsaw that i put on there, my description was i am tired of tripping...

lead can be bought for .50 a pound on average doing the leg work, i/e going to the scrap yards, or ebay seems to still bring near a dollar, but that is allot easier and no gas money etc. involved. i...

i think you helped me solve a big problem w/ a couple of my rifles, my 30 cal bore snake is now retired and replaced, as it was well coated in teflon rem oil. my shots tightened up about 50 percent...

the word is out around here, about the only ww's to be found here is at the scrap yard. it is certainly not worth the investment of fuel to go looking for them, i have had sucess in the scrap yard...

thanx for the specifics on the batteries, i have probably half a ton or so sitting out back, i pretty much decided i wasn't gonna extract the lead because of all the warnings i'd read, but now i...

i cut the top off of an old propane tank (purge w/ water first) and mount it on the turkey fryer, it does not get hot enough to melt zinc if you get it at least half full(away from the heat), i use a...

where do i buy something like this and more importantly what type do i want assuming that there are multiple types. i would mostly be using it to check one pound bars....

i have been using the...

as i have been researching reloading, specifically in regards to cast boolits, i kinda see a point where the limits of a cast boolit is exceded.

in 45 acp. cast seems fine, low pressures, no gas...

wow, thats scary, i can't add much to whats been said, but i know that i have sent trouble prone guns on down the road before because i don't have the expertise to sort out the problems w/ them....

i second the sell the bullets suggestions, i'll trade you linotype printers lead for them or wheel weights, or softer stuff if you want it..........

follow up to original post, i melted down a batch of the printers lead, it soundly dents WW ingots, so i guess i got some decent stuff, no oatmeal stuff, but did get allot of slag stuff.

for...

hi all, scored well today at the local scrap yard, over 1000 pounds, several hundred in raw wheel weights, several 100 more of 1 pound ingots, they appear to be wheel weight material ( at least they...

i checked what i could buy lead at yesterday at the scrap yard, it was .55, i should of taken it i had money, just did not feel like fighting my way through the line of cars.

they are probably pure lead, i stopped at a truck stop today and scored a few pounds, had a good photo opportunity to get a picture of my semi parked next to jimmy johnson's nascar semi, he parked...

thanx OLPDon, that was kinda what my thoughts were, i am still going to look into it more but i don't see a practical money reason to pursue it.

i agree, by the time i get done traveling the...

i think you would be able to resell half and have your money back..... put me first in line for some...

this is a new discovery to me, but as i researched it, i realized it has been around quite a while.

tooling up to do this looks pricey, at least on the corbin sight, tooling up to do castings has...

it seems like what i have been finding is sheet lead type stuff, on scrap yards, most don't know one type of lead from another, if one is worth allot more and they don't know it and i can figure out...

i saw a mention in another thread about some types of lead denting other types of lead, my question is, is there anyway to come up w/ some good rules of thumb from this when scouting lead? i have...

my surprise was a bunch of battery cable ends that did not melt, most melted right down but a dozen or so just floated, any insight?

in general i realized that one pound lyman ingot bars are...