2400 was developed by Hercules, and was first marketed by them in 1932. Although a number of powders manufactured and sold by Hercules had, indeed, previously been produced by DuPont (and even...
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Forum: Vintage Powder Cans / Tins
2400 was developed by Hercules, and was first marketed by them in 1932. Although a number of powders manufactured and sold by Hercules had, indeed, previously been produced by DuPont (and even...
You will need to locate a Winchester bullet mould marked "45 GOV." on the handles, matching the marking on the die of your 1894 tool. This mould will cast a 405-grain round-nose bullet having three...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
Your Ideal tool for reloading .38-45 Bullard would be a No.6, which was made for "rifle size" cartridges (think .45-70, .38-55, .32-40, etc.), whereas the No.4 tool was made for "revolver size"...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
The min. (or "trim to") length of the .30-40 Krag cartridge case is 2.304-inches, with a max. case length of 2.314-inches. I am assuming the stated loaded overall length of 2.060-inches to be a typo....
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
The die you are looking for will be found marked with the number 96.
Jim
7x57Hunter,
Your No.457474 was listed only in Handbook No.39 (1953), with only the briefest of mention in the first Handbook of Cast Bullets (1958). Apparently, this was intended as a "double...
The primer seater is Lyman's post-WWII version of the old Ideal "Straightline" Re- and De-Capper, which originally appeared in the Ideal lineup c.1901.
To de-cap, the rod in the center is removed...
Are you sure you're looking at a 358477? I have that one, and it is a plain-base semi-wadcutter. Definitely not one of Jim Harvey's designs using the zinc washers.
Jim
Any steel 310 handles for the following will also work for 38 Colt Auto:
38 S & W
38 S & W Special
357 Magnum
380 Colt Auto
9mm Luger
The correct adapter for the later alloy handles is shown...
The bullet seating die (officially known as the Double Adjustable, or D.A., die) you are looking for will be marked on the body with the number 13.
Jim
Forum: Cast Boolits
My mid-1980s double-cavity mirrors JonB_in_Glencoe's and Larry Gibson's results... 0.655".
Jim
According to the "Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson, 4th Edition" by Jim Supica and Richard Nahas, the three-letter serial prefix BPT should have appeared in 1993, but that is only speculation based...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
If you are asking in regard to revolvers, Lyman's No.454190. This has been the classic design for .45 Colt since the days when black powder was the only powder. It carried enough lube then, it will...
Neither cartridge appears in any of the lists of available dies for the 310 from Lyman throughout the years. That being said, the 7.63mm Tokarev is dimensionally (although not ballistically) a...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
The powder in question appears to be Hercules "Lightning". For many years the published 'standard' load for the .32-40, with a 165-grain jacketed bullet, was 24.0 grains. Hercules discontinued...
The cherry number 337 appears in Lyman's Handbook of Cast Bullets (1958) where it is shown (see image below) as No.338337, a flat-nose, plain-base designed for the .33 Winchester cartridge. This same...
Forum: Casting Equipment
If the number "514" is on both block halves, which I suspect, that number is not part of the mould number. Rather, it is a " match" number used to keep the two halves together during manufacture....
Forum: Vintage Ammo
CH4D lists the dies you are looking for here:
https://www.ch4d.com/products/dies/caliber-list?page=65
Jim
Forum: Vintage Ammo
FWIW, that box graphic was used by Remington from 1946 until 1960.
Jim
Every chart from 1927 through 1951 shows 132 to be the number assigned to the 6mm U.S. Navy cartridge. Ideal Handbook No.12 (1899) is the earliest to list tools (the No.10 tool) available, and it was...
Forum: Leverguns
Your front sight is a Marble's "Improved Frobt Sight", which was intended to give a less obscured view of the object (game animal) than the traditional post or post-and-bead front sight... advertised...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Manuals
Did anyone ever receive a copy of this from the OP?
There is your problem. The Winchester tools are designed to work with bullets cast from a Winchester mould. They MIGHT work with a Lyman No.427098, which is a close copy of the Winchester design......
Forum: Gas Checks
That's precisely how John Barlow's 1907 patent describes his gas check... and why Ideal handooks stated a special pin (slightly concave) was needed for seating gas checks with the Ideal...
Forum: Vintage Reloading Gear
Interesting. No gas-check shank necessary.
Jim
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 |