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If ya think gas checks are expensive... price some jacketed bullets!

I normally use Sage's gas checks. I would like to get into making my own too, I just haven't come across a set of dies yet.

Win243 already quoted it, according to Saeco's catalog, wheel weight alloy will be 3% heavier than Taracorp Magnum alloy. Taracorp Magnum is identical to hardball.

Howdy and welcome to the forum.

I have the M-P 432-256- HG#503 in my catalog if it helps you.

Paper patching would require a slightly smaller bullet diameter so that the finished diameter...

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Interesting old mould, thank you for sharing.

Definitely not a 358502, as that's a nose-pour design.

Very nice gun, and nice shooting too, especially that tighter group.

Immediately following fluxing with beeswax, for the first couple of casts, it seems that the melt flows better. Might, try that to get better fill out. even if you have to flux every 2-3 times to get...

This is some very interesting discussion, worthy of a 17 year thread revival!

I particularly am interested in the information floodgate shared, as it's exactly what I was looking for, thanks...

No offense meant, but there appears to be a lot with rounded bands - IE rejects.

I've never even heard of them, thanks for sharing.

I will second the recommendation of using a gas checked bullet when starting out. It will give you a baseline by which to judge other bullets later on.

Cool. I think you're the first person that I've seen that says they have one.

Glad to help any way I can.

Nice, thank you.

Pure lead casts smaller than any other alloy. So, having a mould that drops right at the needed size with another alloy will likely be too small...

I hope it'll be great for RCBS and Hodgdon both.

https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?468480-Hodgdon-Purchases-RCBS!

Pure lead will work for round balls without an issue.

To cast bullets of pure lead, you want a bullet with less detail. Pressure casting would be the best technique, if you're able to do it...

Howdy and welcome scooter1942! First off, have you looked for data specific to the LBT bullet? I'd expect there to be data specific to that since LBT bullets are quite popular. You could probably...

I am not sure what my issue is, but I suspect the barrel needs to be turned a hair. I cannot look at might and tell it's off. I actually put a bandaid on it and have been ignoring it a couple of...

Congratulations! I like mine, though I have my rear sight all the way to the right to get point of impact and point of aim to align. I will have it fixed some day, but otherwise I'm pretty content. I...

I'll verify them and add them individually to the spreadsheet as I enter them on the site.

https://i.postimg.cc/50mrT4HV/CD86578-D-E7-BB-4245-B5-BA-EFD56-DC3-C29-E.jpg

This tells me all I need to know about Hodgdon:



From this page: https://hodgdonpowderco.com/hodgdon/#

I didn't see this previously, I'll keep ya in prayer.

Wow there are some interesting concerns, most of which I hadn't thought of.

I have the Winchester bug bad, but I also love old Marlins and old guns in general.

This is interesting. Hodgdon has purchased RCBS. Here's a news article, and here is Hodgdon's page about it.

I for one think it's a good thing, while Hodgdon has something of a monopoly on powder,...

Well thank you for the thought anyway.

That's great! Thanks for sharing. I'm wanting to know about the Dupont can.