For us users of Magma machines, they used to make a 160 grn. round-nose for .38super. It could also be sized down to 9mm and you'll see the end product still offered by many commercial casters. If...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
For us users of Magma machines, they used to make a 160 grn. round-nose for .38super. It could also be sized down to 9mm and you'll see the end product still offered by many commercial casters. If...
Forum: Military Rifles
You can spot the early ones with the double-stack mags by looking at the floorplate/magazine well area. The early ones that use the double-stack have a simple flush floorplate similar to the actual...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Yeah, unfortunately the guy who runs TCCI is a bit of a curmudgeon and still stuck in the early 90s tech-wise. No cell phone and still uses a fax machine. He's got tons of surplus WW2-era small arms...
Forum: Cast Boolits
For me, the biggest gain is in keeping my health. Because the lead is completely encapsulated, there is no longer (or at least very little) atomized airborne micro lead particles created and...
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Living here in Arizona, in a rural area, I have had to deal with buzzworms (that's the old cowboy slang for rattlers). I know how to coexist with them and how to safely remove them to other habitats....
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Yes,...70s and early 80s production. I have some from the early 70s when CCI still went by Cascade Cartridge Inc. As long as they have been properly stored, they should still go bang reliably.
Forum: Our Town
I have a friend down in Bisbee who had a similar experience. He was discovering that his hummingbird feeder was completely depleted overnight and he didn't understand why. Are there nocturnal...
Forum: Our Town
For those of you who really enjoy Hummingbirds, and whom plan on traveling through southern Arizona at some point in the future,...do yourself a favor and make a brief detour through Portal, Arizona...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Got another email update from Schupter on their automated single mold caster (kinda patterned after the Magma Master Caster).
Hi there!
I'd like to give you a short update on the project...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Received another email update from Schupter.
Hi there!
I'd like to give you a short update on the project status:
1. The comercial machine concept is ready. It has been adopted to Magma molds...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
M-Tecs, your private message storage is full and I cannot contact you with crucial details. Please clear some of your cache and message me.
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
Well, Magma has been selling whatever they can since the pandemic, but that hasn't been much. Whatever sizing dies they had in inventory when production halted in late 2020 is what they have been...
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
I just finished bidding today on the left over sizing dies Magma had in inventory. I didn't get them all. Someone else was bidding against me and was absolutely determined to get the larger lot. But...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I agree. I would have happily spent twice per mold that the current bid is at. But more than half the lot is stuff that will take forever to sell and maybe never will.
Forum: Casting Equipment
Yeah, I'm here locally in the area, so I bid on some of the mold inventory, but already have been outbid.
Forum: Rimfire Area
Just because your favorite .22 ammo you have always used worked well before the .22 ammo shortage of 2013-2017 doesn't mean it still does. That period of time changed EVERYTHING in the .22...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I'm more curious where the heck you found it for that price!
Forum: Cast Boolits
Yes, it was. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557203067249
Forum: Casting Equipment
Go check out the Facebook page "Magma bullet casting equipment owners". The guys there are being proactive in trying to devise solutions in the new circumstances. 2 of them have already begun trying...
Forum: Our Town
Fiocchi just openned their primer manufacturing plant in Little Rock, Arkansas. They announced in 2022 that they were building it, and broke ground in early 2023. I'm guessing it is up and running...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If your wheel weights are the typical content, your projectiles should likely have a hardness somewhere between 10-12 Brinell. That is sufficiently hard for being driven to about 1000fps. But if you...
Forum: Casting Equipment
The Dandix sizer costs $1600 (or at least did several months ago when I exchanged emails with Dan). That may seem like a lot, but it is a small expense in comparison to the Magma Lubemaster or the...
Forum: Casting Equipment
A reasonable question, but I think the answer is both yes and no. Even coated boolits need to be sized. They just don't need the lubing part. For myself, as a budding new commercial caster, and with...
Forum: Casting Equipment
UPDATE: Magma has been bought out and reborn,...in Australia.
You can keep tabs on them here at their new Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557203067249 Here is their...
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 |