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    Quote Originally Posted by Dangibson View Post
    RCBS recommends 775 degrees alloy temperature for wheel weight alloy.
    1. You're replying conversationally to a 6 year old thread.

    2. Sharing favorite temperatures is pointless because of this:
    I give loading advice based on my actual results in factory rifles with standard chambers, twist rates and basic accurizing.
    My goals for using cast boolits are lots of good, cheap, and reasonably accurate shooting, while avoiding overly tedious loading processes.
    The BHN Deformation Formula, and why I don't use it.
    How to find and fix sizing die eccentricity problems.
    Do you trust your casting thermometer?
    A few musings.

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    Smoke them the first 4 or 5 times you use them. It may be a good way of creating aluminum oxide on the face of the cavity. Other than that I have no idea why it works but it does. After a few sessions you will be able to cast without smoking.

    Which is why I suspect it may have something to do with aluminum oxide.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

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