I've been using a Lyman 450 since 1972 ... nothing has broken and it's still doing it's assigned task ... I don't have a bad word to say about it ... I Like It !
Gary
Type: Posts; User: gwpercle
Forum: Casting Equipment
I've been using a Lyman 450 since 1972 ... nothing has broken and it's still doing it's assigned task ... I don't have a bad word to say about it ... I Like It !
Gary
Forum: Cast Boolits
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I Agree ...
If 8.2 grs of Unique wont get you there ... Don't Go !
Besides ... If you have plenty Unique on hand ... then it's the best place to start !
Gary
Forum: Our Town
Thanks for the Link ... I will see if i can get it printed out !
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Gary
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We have a like button ... sorta , post : then goodpost then : and LIKE ...
Tah - Dah... I has Liked Your Post !
Gary
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Pure lead , even when powder coated is too soft for loading into a 9mm Luger .
When you seat the boolit in the case it gets squeezed down and the soft nose deforms on the feed ramps .
I mix pure...
Forum: Gas Checks
I have never had a gas check make a load shoot worse .
Everytime I used a gas check (rifle loads here) things got better .
You can work up decent loads with plain based boolits but ... by and...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
The gas check protects the boolit base ... Powder coating does not .
Anytime I load rifle boolits at over 900 fps ... a gas check is used .
The Gas Check can be your friend ... do not fear...
Forum: Casting Equipment
You want something like a Crawfish Boiling Rig ... 100,000 - 110,000 BTU Jet Burner and steel stand to hold a 100 quart pot , full of crawfish and water ...
forget turkey fryer ... Wimpy , wimpy ,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
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The Man is as Right as Rain !
Gary
Forum: Our Town
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This is a good idea ,
We bought a 110 V. heater / fan from the Wally Mart for our green house , can be used as fan or as heater... worked so well my Son "borrowed" it for his apartment...
Forum: Our Town
Dry Purina Rabbit Chow .
Carries easily in a zip-lock and doesn't spoil ... rabbits seem to like it along with the "Trash Panda's" .
Gary
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Advice for the Future
If you have a gun that shoots good groups with anything you stuff in it ...
Do Not Sell It !
As my Daddy put it ...
" Gary , never sell a gun you like ... you will...
Let me warn you ...
Custom Moulds ... in my case NOE Moulds ... Are Habit Forming !!!
You can't live with just one ... trust me !
I am a Cajun and we are very thrifty people , but after...
What if it doesn't make sense ... will he make it anyway and not catalog it ?
I love it when things have to make sense ...
... that is just so Cool !
Gary
Forum: Cast Boolits
If you have Unique powder on hand ... I would start with a load of 6.0 or 6.5 grains Unique and work up slowly to get the desired recoil / accuracy ...
My pet / favorite load with a 185 gr. JHP...
Forum: Cast Boolits
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I don't have no PID or thermometer ... But
Get best boolits just at "frosty" ... I hear the frosty surface helps hold coatings !
Gary
Forum: Cast Boolits
Good advice ... from my Momma ... "Better Safe Than Sorry !!!"
Remove the nipples or pull the lead balls out , clean the cylinder chambers and
start over fresh and new . Buy some proper pistol...
Forum: Cast Boolits
#1 Since the boolit is shorter behind the crimp groove ... and heavier , the first thing I would do is seat a boolit to the crimp groove in a dummy round or two and check if the dummy rounds will...
Forum: Our Town
The photo's are Wonderful ... I swear I can almost smell it baking !!!
You know what would be mor wonderful than photo's ... A Recipe !
You print that recipe and I will bake 3 or 4 ... They...
The very first 45 acp mould I ever bought was the Lee 452-228-1R ... This wasn't the Tumble Lube boolit , I wanted a regular lube grooved boolit .
It sucked so bad ... I sold it at a garage sale for...
Forum: Cast Boolits
A little extra heat will not hurt any mould ... I get my best fill out when the boolits drop right at frosty .
Trying to cast too cool is just hurting your casting ... different moulds like to be...
Forum: Cast Boolits
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LIKE !
My Lyman 450 was paid for in 1972 ... I can lube , size , seat a gas check and have a boolit ready to shoot with ... One Cycle of the handle ... Fast Fast Fast .
Too set in my...
Forum: Our Town
18 or 20 lines per inch is the usual layout , depending on the wood hardness and texture ... how open the grain is .
When you get into 22 and 24 lines per inch the diamonds become very fine .
I...
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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 |
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