If it is an RCBS, they will likely replace the cap for free. Don't bother with email you have to call. Sometimes I have to call a bunch of times but if you get through they'll probably send you one.
Type: Posts; User: pcmacd
Forum: Casting Equipment
If it is an RCBS, they will likely replace the cap for free. Don't bother with email you have to call. Sometimes I have to call a bunch of times but if you get through they'll probably send you one.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Well, sir? Your humor went over our heads.
And might instruct less knowledgeable persons to do stupid stuff?
You need to fix your post, sir.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Since the 32 spl bullet is 0.321" or so, I doubt it would chamber in a typical 30-30 chamber, which has a 0.308" bullet.
You could likely shoot a 30-30 in a 32 spl, but why do that???
How did...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I have fired tens of thousands of modestly hard lead rounds thru G19s and G22s. No issues at all, but I never load to the max... a couple tenths down.
Range salvage + 2% tin +3% antimony via...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Whoa! Not on my planet! WC820 - I bought 24# of this from Jeff Bartlett some time back. It was for loading 30 Carbine and was alleged to be a non-canister version of H110, which makes perfect...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
That, and different test barrels, different propellant lots are most likely the major differences posted betwixt propellants such as HP38/W231.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
There is a sticky here that shows the equivalent products.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I read just today in Shooting Times that since the vendor of 2400 has changed from hercules to alliant, it burns much cleaner.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
#9 is one of my favorite propellants for magnum handgun loads.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
H110 comes out of the same machines as W296 - they are identical propellants.
My Winchester reloading manual EMPHATICALLY STATES that you DO NOT REDUCE the recommended loads for W296.
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Forum: Casting Equipment
Looks like a candy store to me?
:D
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Forum: Casting Equipment
There used to be at least three people in the front office. Iben going there for years when calling on the GM Proving grounds for HP vibration measurement products that I supported.
Either...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Elizabeth was sure easy on the eyes. I walked into their cigarette smokey office and thought, "What in the Freaking WHAT are you doing here, young lady????"
She was a pleasant looker, she was.
Forum: Casting Equipment
When configured for gang mold casting, I seldom used more than a single mold -- it just got tooo complicated. From time to time I would pour a couple dozen with a second mold, but not often.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I think the ring is due to the "transition" part of the carbide ring that makes it easy to get brass more or less centered in the die.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Years ago I learned that the Commerce, CA indoor police range sold scrap lead.
I brought home about 2500# of bullet trap salvage a bit at a time in my Hewlett-Packard company station wagon.
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Forum: Casting Equipment
I've seen some impressive butcher block units about the right size at Costco before.
Just over $115, but it's been a while.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Annealing rifle brass is LOTS easier than most think.
See the last half of this post #15 for my method, which came directly from "Designing and Forming Custom Cartridges" by Dr. Ken Howell.
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Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I have the same issue with dillon 38/357, 40 winchester and (esp.) 30 carbine carbide dies.
The 40 is likely due to brass fired in Glock where head is not well supported.
It does help to lube...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I worked for Hewlett Packard years ago while living in Orange County, CA. The GM proving grounds near Queen Creak was my customer, and every time I went down that way I would stop into Magma...
Forum: Casting Equipment
To get the Magma Engr. 80 pound bottom pour pot.
It requires 240 service.
It was worth the wait and the electrician's expense.
If you pay attention, you don't really need mold guides beneath...
Forum: Cast Boolits
The last time I was at Sportsmans Warehouse, I stood in line for 45 minutes to buy primers, while the guys behind the counter were showing guns to lookie lous and just generally wasting time shooting...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I lived in Commiefornia for 40 years. There were a dozen or so places one could find reloading components close by.
In Commiefornia!??!! Yeppers. In Commiefornia.
I move to Greater Phoenix...
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 |