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Interesting you brought up the the compressive strength by Richard Lee. That’s what lead me to looking at 44 special loads in 44 mag brass. Trying to not exceed my soft 25:1 alloy. The Hodgdon data...

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@Three44s
I’d like to hear more about your HS-6 loads please. I just cast some 200 grain and have some HS-6 on the shelf.

And the Federal 12S4...
My Lyman manual has plenty of recipes for them. I guess they are long gone too?

I’d trade Winchester OEM WAA12R for the Federal 12S4 but I only have a partial bag.

http://www.edstc.com/contender.html

Not sure how current the prices are, but you can gauge which barrels are more valuable.

The Ford limited slip differential additive is a great $20 treatment for the lock-up torque converter to help those who aren’t covered under warranty. It’s stinky like sulfur.

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This brand.

Hindsight is 2020 isn’t it?!?!

Hopefully others will learn something from this thread.

I loaded a few more since I figured out the debris/headspace issue. I increased the oal from 1.058” to 1.070” in an attempt to reduce chamber pressure. I didn’t want to go any longer, due to exposing...

Amen!

Rupture resolved! Get the lead out!!!

Cartridges plunked in the Lyman cartridge checker. Cartridges plunked in the barrel after picking out the lead. Went back out to the range and chambered one...

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I scraped these pieces of lead from the end of the chamber. They were exactly where the cartridge headspaces.

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I noticed the rounds don’t “plunk” when I was attempting to get this photo.

Now I’m thinking maybe it fired slightly out of battery?

I don’t think the 147 grain bullet weight is incompatible with the carbine. As a matter of fact, I took a whitetail with a 147 grain XTP several years back. I’ve used 115 through 200 grain...

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I looked at a recipe from the Vihtavuori app with a recipe for a 145 grain H&N plated round nose. 2.6 grains of N310 powder. (3.3 max) 1.142” oal. Predicted velocity of 794 FPS.

I...

I admit to using a fast powder and smaller charge getting more rounds per pound.

So day one of lubrisizer. Got some lube on the base of the boolets. Wiped it off with a paper towel, because I...

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I tried out my new to me lube/sizer and was excited about having loaded rounds that weren’t sticky with LLA. The lube in it is soft and tacky but I’m thrifty and using it and learning.
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I’d trade you some brand name bullets or buy outright for the AP bullets. I don’t shoot on a public range and they would be fun to try on old junk cars and other ornaments we collect in Tennessee. ...

Ground pork
Sage
Black pepper
Red pepper
Sea salt

That was my sausage recipe.

You should look at permissible levels of heavy metals on municipal sewer discharge permits across the nation.

I use a Big Berkey water filter for my drinking water.

Good luck next weekend!!

Yes. I’m using Precision Spherical Buffer. Just like the tri-ball loads. The wad petals are about 0.007” thinner on the BPI wads vs the precision reloading wads. I didn’t...

Static electricity?
Plastic coating traveling through the air hitting a grounded target.

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Well I’m not sure what contributed more to wad failure?

I used a BPI multi metal wad cut down instead of the Precision Reloading wad. Secondly the stack was too short so I tried a flex...

Don’t the lead free primers use larger than standard flash holes too?

I’ve had issues with two different Marlin rifles with peep sights. Probably ’80s vintage. The tube around the front sight looked twisted on a 30-30. I thought the gunsmith bent it during...