I shoot most everything including big game rifles often, which leaves little reason for long term storage cleaning and perserving methods. I clean the action when conditions warrent it (dusty, dirty wet etc.,), and likewise, I clean the bore's when accuracy falls off. Other than that, they get a thu...

Congrats,,, hunting with handguns is addicting

Dave

DeanC wrote:Imperial sizing wax

+1

I bought a used Encore barrel awhile back,,,it had something,,,still not sure what it was, about the last 1/4" of the muzzle. I tried everything I had here,,,Butches, Hoppe's #9 and Benchrest, Shooters Choice, and Breakfree CLP, none cut it. I talked with another net bud, and he said to try Wip...

Ditto on what Sam said!

If you make an assumption about FPS per grain you are implicitly assuming a LINEAR relationship between charge weight and velocity. I tried to make it clear, you wouldn't wanna use fps/gr, to calculate a charge weight, for a desired velocity. Past that, all I've done is add CONTEXT to a simple aver...

Yes, the technique of doing FPS per grain and averaging is something I hadn't seen or thought of before, and just from a caution standpoint I thought I had better point out what could be a flaw in this logic. If you make an assumption about FPS per grain you are implicitly assuming a LINEAR relatio...

Kinda like Dave, I'd try to correlate from the aggregate. Ya don't always wanna calculate a fps/gr ... certainly not to come up with a charge for a desired velocity ... but, for correlation, it beats guessing. http://krok.us/images/smilies/shrug.gif I just took the max of each load ( ig...

There a number of reasons for the differences, and it's not all that uncommon. Some are more conservative than others for the most part. I tend to reply on those that show their pressures, but not all do. The main thing to look for, is that bullets are of the same make in the the data as to what you...

Yeah well it has me sorta scratch'n my head and wondering. No I didnt read that part on the Lee tester, and I did measure both the base and flat nose. And as you and they say there is a difference in the readings. But pretty much common sense dictates, to go with the number that contacts the animal ...

1. Iron mold blocks that take quite a few bulets to heat up and make good ones. Wasted start-up effort. The cure is to go with cheaper and lighter Lee aluminum molds that can throw a perfect bullet like in 3 pours. This true with brass molds as well, however,,,,,,, My second session, I decide to sti...

Best thing to do is cast with two molds (maybe the same caliber, maybe not) so you can go as fast as you can alternating molds to keep producing good bullets. The other trick is to heave another 1 pound ingot of bullet lead into the pot, and it will act like an ice cube in a drink and cool down the...

I've bought bullets that didn't look that good. In fact, most of the bullets I've bought didn't look that good! All in all I'm very happy with the Accurate Mold, and once I figured out the toaster oven does a great job of preheating (or keeping it hot if I have a interuption) the mold to 425+ degre...

A little frost is ok, it will go away when you size. I agree with that, but the exception is,,,, the frosty ones also shrunk more. So much that the they were very near or under my slug diameter. Whereas the shiney ones and with alloy od 93-5-2 were running .001 thru .0012" over slug,,,,from wh...

casting sessions,,,, Learned the hard way what happens when your pouring tempo is alil fast for the mold's likes Frosty bullets once I got the mold up to temp and past on good fillout http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/onesonek/100_4139.jpg Asked around, and was told to slow down...