I washed my bullets in acetone to make sure I had a clean surface. I have a huge commercial rack oven that I baked the coating in. I followed the recipes well. I used fresh acetone to make sure...
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I washed my bullets in acetone to make sure I had a clean surface. I have a huge commercial rack oven that I baked the coating in. I followed the recipes well. I used fresh acetone to make sure...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I had those issues way before using alcohol as a solvent.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I put the alcohol over the top of the bullets in the bucket. Then immediately put in the hitek mixture in the bucket and swirled. I only did it that way because I didn't want to make a special mix of...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Since you are getting a heavier bullet out of a mold made for 130gr is telling me you have a very high lead content. Probably close to pure. For example my 147gr mold out out 150gr bullets when using...
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That's great to hear. I ordered some red from straight shooter supply. I am pretty unhappy with hitek's red because it was flaking off during sizing. And scraping very easy during seating. I'm happy...
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In the instructions they say to use 1ml for 300-350grams of additional bullets. Now I could have read that wrong and they meant after the first 1-3kg where you use 10ml of solution to coat the...
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.8ml per lb. My bucket has lots of left over from previous batches so if you start with a clean bucket I would start with 1.1ml per
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The color change was because of the phone flash. In direct daylight they don't look much different from the no flash pic
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Here is some BCB blue. Flash on/flash off. 50/50 acetone and isopropyl alcohol....
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Finally got my brick red to come out nice. I used the standard recipe but splashed maybe 10ml of isopropyl alcohol over the 10lbs of bullets before...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Thanks for the replies. I was melting this over a large propane burner so I know I can really get the temp up high. I had the flame up high. Thankfully when I waxed it everything melted up. I poured...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I bought 5lbs of rotometals super hard. It's 30% antimony. I was melting it down into 40lbs of soft lead and was having a hard time getting it to melt down. I put some wax in there and fluxed it....
Forum: Reloading Equipment
If you can order the .360x.356 insert I think you will have better luck. I wish they offered a .360x.357 too. I'm having a hard time understanding what to order to make that powder through expander...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Despite the guys on here running fat bullets for their chambers. I decided to just stick with .356 bullets because any larger it was a big battle to get things to chamber. Plus I didn't want to sort...
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I recently took my loads to the range to test out using a slower powder to see if that affected the keyholing. CFE pistol at 3.7grs with my 150gr produced very accurate 125 power factor loads. I...
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I think I will eventually move down to my 135gr mould soon. It comes out to 137gr after coating. It seems like it will be a little more forgiving and stretch out lead reserves. I'm not willing to do...
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Since I also used copper plated 147gr a lot. I seat pretty deep and the 38s&w expander is what I use almost exclusively now. I have bought some NOE expanders for my .357 lead though
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That's good news. I love my moulds
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Well despite the shipping charge it still ends up being slightly cheaper than HiTek per bullet. And he was able to split the 400g size into two different colors for me. It's a bigger upfront cost...
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It was eventually sent out with FedEx stateside. I'm not sure what they used before that. It got to my door quick for being sent overseas. If it has a tracking number and is given to the shipping...
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I tried to ask dimensions of their moulds before ordering and never heard back but because of their quality of work I went ahead and ordered. Now I have three different moulds from them. I received...
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Hey what other colors have you used so far? I want to try teal and/or a lighter blue but didn't want to place another order as I already got enough to cover 200lbs of bullets.
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I think you misread what I wrote. Ruan reached out to a local casting company that has a decent sized presence in USPSA. The local caster turned down the opportunity to be the North American...
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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 |