You might try a 260 Rem or 6.5 Creedmoor die for seating. The crimp portion of your 25-06 seating die might be sizing the boolits down is why I suggested the 260/6.5 seating die.
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
You might try a 260 Rem or 6.5 Creedmoor die for seating. The crimp portion of your 25-06 seating die might be sizing the boolits down is why I suggested the 260/6.5 seating die.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have some of what I believe is the Accurate version of 4831. Accurate MRP, probably surplus WWII stuff
Forum: Our Town
I have a roll up soft cover. Starting to show its age, but 19 years in the Colorado sun will do that.
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Makes me harken back to the day when near the town just West of us, the river overflowed for a few days and once it receded, we asked the farmer if we could see what was in his waterlogged pasture. ...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Love Garlic, but after the last batch of Covid-19, I just can't taste it like I used to. Wife says I have burnt out my taste buds with the hot pepper I like (Habanero and Ghost) on different foods...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Our local scrap yard, IIRC, pays 10 cents/lb and charges $1/lb. They usually have lots. One time I went in and they had bundles of lead sheeting, about 4ft x 4 ft x 2ft , sitting on pallets, ready...
See if you can find an older Lyman Shotshell manual. It should have what you want.
Forum: Leverguns
Might be pushing them a bit too fast for a non-gas checked boolit. Try powder coating a few and size to about .377" and try and as an alternative, drop the charge back to about 18 gr. or so with the...
Forum: Our Town
Following hand surgery for a bad infection, Doc told me one time to soak my hand in warm as you could stand it, water with Dial liquid soap in it. For 10 min or so. The gold colored one ONLY. Said...
Forum: Our Town
No nuts in my banana bread. Extra banana's though
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I have some nail clippers that belonged to my Grandfather. Gotta be at least 50 years old and still sharp.
Forum: Our Town
Yep, you never know what you will find. Usually overpriced, but sometimes there is a jewel lying in a corner that is a bargain.
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
ancini de pepe pasta is fairly round and probably 1/3 to 1/2 the size of a grain of rice. Maybe the size of small tapioca.
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Might be a bit too hard, but instead of rice or grits, I have used "ancini de pepe" pasta as a payload in my 38's (using 357 max brass) for snakes around the house. 2-3' away will penetrate one of...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
When I hunted doves, it was 6's, quail, I used 7.5's, crows , I used magnum #2's and squirrels were #4's out of a 410.
Forum: Our Town
Way things are going with the gun laws here in CO, I might just have to move. Hate to after being here 30+ years and getting a bit too grey for a move, but don't know if I can live with whats coming...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
My local scrap yard charges $1.00/lb but buys for $0.10/lb last time I asked
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Grits is finer and not as much mass, so should leave less of a mark. I use Walters wads as an over payload seal. Still should take out a wasp.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Don't know about you guys, but I had a 35 Whelen 7400 semi that would shoot groups a bit over 3" with PC boolits pushed to about 2000fps and sub 2" groups when I added lube to the PC as the only...
Forum: Our Town
I put the die box in a small flat rate box first, it bulges, but I put it in a tyvek envelope then in a flat rate envelope. Same with brass. Those tyvek envelopes are tough. I think a flat rate...
Guy came in our local gun show with a 52 but with only one mag. Probably 99% if not for missing the factory grips. Had a set of RH thumb rest grips on it. He was asking $1000 for it. If he had...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I didn't think they chambered the '73 in 45 Colt, at least until modern times???
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 |