All of my Bullseye friends that shot the Benelli 90 or 95 used a 32 die from LEE that was special ordered at .002 oversize and then we used homemade .314 expanders that went a little past where the...
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All of my Bullseye friends that shot the Benelli 90 or 95 used a 32 die from LEE that was special ordered at .002 oversize and then we used homemade .314 expanders that went a little past where the...
It is quite likely that you could take a 5/16 bolt and cut the threads off and then spin it on a drill with a file and not much would be needed to take off before you would get it right. Look closely...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I have commercial heaters for my units but if you don't want to spend the money, I wonder if an infrared bulb might work. You would want one that is flat in the front like a spotlight and you could...
I only use 30 caliber gas checks and have Hornady and Gator. For my Lyman 311407 bullet, the Gator is hard to put on and the Hornady is easier. I don't feel that either check is better than the...
I have used a MEC 9000 for quite a while now and the only hangup is the primer feed and I use the large primer system. Keep the plastic clean and use powdered graphite to keep the primers sliding. ...
This is what I do too but I only load trap, skeet and 5 stand loads on my 9000. If you will check, you will see that the MEC loaders and anything else with the same bar loading system might vary the...
I think I would sell every one I have for 50 cents each.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I don't agree that light loads with H110 are dangerous. I shot a lot of them in my 22 Hornet in competition. At 100 yards I used a load of 7.4 g grains but I don't remember the weight of the bullet...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
You can put a powder measure anywhere you want on a Dillon 550 but it won't work from the press handle and you would have to flip it with your hand. A Dillon measure would be hard to manipulate but...
Forum: Casting Equipment
This is correct and also important when pressure pouring from a pot is the speed the alloy comes out of the pot and how high the lead level is. If the stream is too fast it may give you a void in...
Out of all the molds in the 150 range the Lyman 358477 and the RCBS 150 were the best that my friends and I could come up with, testing them on a Ransom Rest. For me the RCBS is the best but not by...
I would not shoot it. I have an N frame 44 that is a one of 12 of a thousand with silver engraving on it and the cylinder has never even turned so there is no ring on the cylinder. I have an...
I have seen them $135 a K in one store and $60 a K in another within about 15 miles of each other.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I use a grade 8 bolt to make them and that isn't expensive but I don't make them for sale.
Just got a Lee 309 - 113 - F Want to have my 30/30 Marlin for the grand kids to plink and don't want to use too much lead. Also have a Thompson Contender in 30/30 and with the light bullets it...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Lead levels vary with where you live too. Missouri is the worst place for this because it is the only place in the US that lead is present in its natural form in dirt. Mining here used to be taking...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I started shooting lead for Bullseye in 1965 for the Army and we used quite soft lead because we used range pickup and a lot of 22 shooting was done there. We never cleaned from our guns because it...
Forum: Cast Boolits
There is a constant effort to make people afraid to do and be around just about everything to keep people scared so they will follow the establishment in any thing they are told. Lead is probably...
Forum: Cast Boolits
That would be over 1400 rounds a week for 10 years or 205 a day each day in a year.
Forum: Cast Boolits
When you have a bunch of people here who have been casting since the 60's and don't wear a mask or worry if their hands are dirty and have never had high lead levels, it would make anyone think that...
I use them a lot for plinking because of the light weight and not depleting my lead supply. I shot a load around 750 fps from my model 14 Smith in my Ransom rest and they shot around 4 inches at 50...
Forum: Cast Boolits
What a shame that a newbie goes on a rant about how dangerous casting is when it has virtually no possibility of giving a person high lead levels. I have been doing this since 1965 when in the Army...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I use a rubber hammer from HF and it has lasted years and I have a few molds that you have to beat hard to drop bullets. Probably off center because the same one on the same side always hangs up. ...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have a Cabela electric scale that plugs in and it works well but you can not dribble powder in because it will make it out of adjustment. I don't know how much it cost because I got it in a group...
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 |