I'm on the mailing list so I get emails from Muzzle-Loaders.com from time to time. I had an email come in that claimed to be from them saying I needed to pay an additional $6.79 in shipping on my...
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Forum: Muzzleloading.
I'm on the mailing list so I get emails from Muzzle-Loaders.com from time to time. I had an email come in that claimed to be from them saying I needed to pay an additional $6.79 in shipping on my...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Rounded bands was why I was using some tin for the 41 mag bullets, they had several lube grooves. I can get decent fill out in the 58 caliber Minnie bullets and they have a broad shallow groove, or...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Hot melt and hot mold. Pour fast. I cast round ball and Minnie balls with plain lead.
For casting sabot rounds since the sabot rides the rifling one can use lead. I use lead plus a couple...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
M-Tec that was a very informative post on powders.
On prices last time I looked some had almost doubled from price stickers on some of my previous purchases.
I have seen a drop in primers...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hot diggity dog! I think this is great. I buy the NOE expander buttons that work like a Lyman M die and use those in my Lee expander die. I have already bought those for several calibers, the...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Hodgdon doesn't make their own powders, they real monopoly is they all buy from Australian manufacturer ADI. Go to ADI website and look at their powder equivalents chart.
Shows that many of...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I haven't done a comparison but I think there might be some difference depending on when you size your projectiles.
Tumble lube you may or may not size your bullet. With Lee TL design not sizing...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Only empty pot if I'm changing alloy and that is easy with my dipper pot for the ladle, just use welding gloves pick it up carefully (very carefully) and dump out the lead after using a ladle to get...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Squirrel cage blower out of an old furnace moves a lot of air and can be found cheap from furnaces that are being replaced due to heat exchanger leaks.
One of the biggest sources of easily...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Another for graphite is your friend as a pin release. I have some powdered graphite that I used to tumble buckshot that I now apply with a Q Tip, I have used a pencil before and both forms of...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
What sort of fellow does and intervention and doesn't bring "refreshements" I'll snag a pack of fig newtons to make sure we don't starve.
If you find yourself with a bunch of good looking well...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
thanks people, good information and helpful as always.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I'm surprised not to get confirmation that tightening the bands by increasing the bend isn't a good option. I did fail to mention I first noticed the barrel being loose after it fell when on the...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Heck I would say a 92 ain't bad for any age. Although I have from time to time (damn close to daily) been reminded that stuff I would say I excelled at once upon a time I can't do at the same level...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I think it is loose enough that it doesn't tighten up when hot, the few times I've shot it since it became loose I didn't shoot a lot of rounds. Not as much fun when the barrel shifts during firing.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
You my friend are getting close to needing an intervention!
My bench has a small loaf pan for culls and pull downs, that pan gets dumped into the smelting pot when I melt down drippings, dross,...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I have a zouave reproduction that has a lot of play in the barrel. I'm not sure how it should be addressed. With the bands in their usual location the barrel has enough play to make accuracy an...
Forum: 3D PRINTED RELATED ITEMS
A lot of open source software only requires that one leave the acknowledgement of the original authors having created the original work. Am surprised at how often people ignore that simple request....
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
older thread but went with the pry and roll off the bottom with some channel locks when lo and behold I got a surprise. This pair of weighted candlesticks were full of sand! I'm very pleased. Got...
I think the retail stores responded to higher interest rates more directly than inflation. Either due to their own cost to borrow or because if I can make 5% in safe, guaranteed interest return from...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I mostly use previously fired brass so I trim to length for more consistent crimps. The Lee hand crank trimmer that is used on a single stage press does a slight chamfer on inside and out. So yes I...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
It is nice to know I'm not the only one to dump a load of powder into a case without a primer. Picking up the case and watching the powder dribble out is... as humbling as it is annoying. A...
Hmm is it perhaps time for me to pursue my "one of these days" project of cutting down 410 brass shells to be long 45 colt cases to load with #12 shot? Seems like every time I consider it and go to...
This is what I have used. I had trouble finding load data for anything over 180 grain but wanted/needed larger diameter bullet for old milsurp bore and that mold was heavier bullet. Found the...
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 |