Recent content by homatok

I got into reloading in the 1960's for my Weatherby 300 Magnum. After a good deal of research, I settled on H4831 (I have also used IMR4831 but find it is a bit faster). One thing to keep in mind is that Roy Weatherby built in a long leade which gives the bullet a bit of a free-running jump...

I saw that on "Live P D" last night. Good for them! Sadly, apparently the jerk survived.

I use nail polish to color-code for different loads. It may also provide a water-tight seal, I don't really know. All I do is, once the rounds are loaded, I dab on a bit of polish, wait a second or two and lightly swipe the base over a piece of shop towel. The towel catches excess polish and...

I have been taking a Bata blocker for Essential Tremor for more than 20 years. Until last year I only took two a day (morning and night) but the tremors increased slowly over time until I now take one and a half two times a day. The Bata blocker does not completely control the condition but it...

Good information and advice in this thread. Information/data in any manual is developed by the publisher of the manual reflecting what they found testing with their equipment in their test platform (chamber/barrel etc. etc.). The information published is developed with the knowledge that the...

If someone knows his real name, try Googling it. I lost contact with a friend several years ago and there was no answer when I tried his phone. When I googled him I got his obituary so I at least knew what had become of him. Google also works for getting phone numbers and addresses if you type...

A couple of comments: The 303 Lee Enfield rifle uses a rimmed cartridge. Headspace in a 303 is measured from the face of the bolt to the front edge of the cavity in the chamber designed to hold the rim in position. The 303 is/was designed as a “battle” rifle and as such needed to be functional...

Post #10 is the winner! Soaking a primer in anything WILL NOT I repeat WILL NOT deactivate it!!!! I have posted the following on THR and elsewhere before but here it is again: When I started reloading in the nineteen sixties, the “common” knowledge was; don’t touch the primers with your bare...

I grew up in South West Manitoba, on a farm, off the grid. We got power in 1950 (or so) and a telephone in 1954. I started hunting at age 10 using the old, beat-up Winchester .22 “Rabbit” gun. My Dad was not a hunter. He kept the old .22 around mostly to shoot at pests, including stray dogs and...

In your initial post you said: I’ve found that Sierra bullets tend to like more neck tension than others but when I trim many times I think the pilot on my case trimmer loosens the tension up. What if I put a light crimp on them? Wouldn’t this make things more consistant? I’ve never crimped...

Rifle chambers (like people) are all different. If you really want to maximize the fit of your carefully crafted custom ammunition, you really need to make a chamber cast. The cast can be poured or you can do a pound cast. There are many threads in most reloading sites dealing with how to do...

Get some 2x4. These can be scrap from a building site (length is not important). Might be free for the asking. Trim the edges (on one side) on a table saw to get a nice crisp, square edge. Next, trim the other edges on all of the 2x4 sufficient to make them all the same width. You can then glue...

Quote "As of today, I have met my goal of laying in the sized, trimmed, and primed cases, bullets and powder necessary to see me through reloading and shooting throughout retirement. :) And, yes, to answer the logically consequent question, I did plan to increase my shooting by about 50% over...

The reason to drop the case into water is because doing so immediately stops any further annealing. That said: here is the way I do it. Annealing case necks in Lead Annealing case necks by dipping them into molten lead that is held at about seven hundred degrees ‘F’ works well. Wheel weight...

The advice to crimp lightly is bang on. The danger in crimping cast is that you may size-down the bullet, inviting possible leading of the bore. If you flare the case mouth, and do not at least iron the flare out, your ammunition may not chamber. All that is required is to iron the flare tight...