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Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
Go to Hollywood Reloading Tools at.
sedroc@centurytel.net
(928) 963-0344
Bob Cordes owner
Cousin Rick
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
Not sure if these presses qualify as ‘ vintage ‘ but along with my Hollywoods and Stars I sure find these old turrets very handy and accurate for handgun ammo. I don’t use the primer attachment but...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
I have three Hollywoods, two Lyman All Americans for revolver loads and two Stars. This has been my press line up for 40-50 years and not one has been a problem. Years ago I got the bug for a Dillon...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I’ve got old presses, three Hollywoods, two All Americans and two Stars but I use them so it’s not about collecting. There great reliable presses so why not use them
Rick
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Yes Rick moving lead is expensive. When lived in New Hampshire let 500 lbs go to a small group of guys in Maine. Two showed up with a flatbed I fork lifted off two big chunks and they were off. To...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Well I was in the marine surveying business about forty years. After the Cat Losses or hurricanes I go where I’m called to inspect damaged vessels and determine repairs and CTL’s/ Constructive Total...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
To the OP where are you located ? I have a pallet full of lead sailboat keel pieces from my salvage days after hurricanes.
Rick
I’ve always cast with steel molds for forty plus years so my procedure and timing have been pretty much automatic. A friend gave be a two cavity aluminum 45 Lee mold and I gotta tell you I was all...
Thirty-five years shooting Bullseye including the 2700 matches so lots of mid- range wadcutters. So free advice and see if it fits. First of all you don’t tell us what gun (s) your shooting as it...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Heated two homes and a shop in ME, NH and now MI with Jotul stoves. They always recommend an inch or more of sand in the bottom to protect from high heat. Yes Locust burns hot and long due to resin...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Sassafras is another of my favorite species but can be hard to find unless you live where they get large and know somebody with a mill. It’s not a heavily marketed species due to unreliable sources....
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Reminds me of the old New England Yankee saying that a ‘ Locust post will last two years longer than stone ‘
Rick
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I’ve worked with black locust in the boat building industry for many years. We called it poor man’s teak as it as rot resistant as any domestic species. The wood is heavy and despite what some may...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I shot a lot of 4756 years ago in my Clark 45acp Bullseye pistol. I loved it as it offered better case density, burned clean and velocity spread consistency was the best. My two Star Bullseye presses...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Odds and coincidence likely but if you find the same pair of hands worked and built both rifles then I believe we are talking Fate.
Rick
Forum: Single Shot Guns
You’d look good in 444 and I know you have some nice trading stock
Rick
Forum: Single Shot Guns
I’ve got an early #3 that was my Brothers who guided in Wyoming between drilling jobs. He was always running to Salt Lake to Parker Ackley for various project but one was this #3. Parker pretty much...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
2 Hollywood Senior SS
2 Lyman All American Turret
1 Hollywood Universal
2 Star Progressives
Two Arbor seating presses
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Almost every powder throw I’ve had over fifty years required a special technique for consistency depending on powder. Balls are the easiest but stick and big flake powders needed a light initial...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Years ago Wilson used to cut custom blanks for me and my wildcatting buddies, call them. If not try Neil Jones in Erie, PA he did also. Neil Jones Custom. And a long time ago so did Dewey ( cleaning...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
When I was a kid in the early 60’ my next door neighbor was Frank Snow who founded Sierra Bullets in Santa Fe Springs So Cal. Mr. Snow had several Easton presses and a row of Hollywood’s in his...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
That overhead fan should be interesting with your scales
Forum: Reloading Equipment
You can save some headaches down the road by forgetting coatings like polyurethane, varnishes or any similar coating systems. All are easily damaged or broken down by many of standard gun cleaning...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Just spit ballin here but most red pigmented paints fade to the orange side. Just a possibility cause I’ve got one that looks orangish the other red. And Lyman’s company color is what ?
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 |