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Some lead oxides are yellow so it might be as simple as that. I had a roll of roofing lead that had been sitting outside for 40 + years that had a bit of similar yellow staining and when I finally melted it down into ingots the stuff just came of with the dross. The metal poured well and filled...

GECO is part of RUAG/RWS/Norma/Rottweil etc.. They know how to make brass and its GTG.

While I would be surprised if the OP didn't get a new press out of this, my experience with RCBS customer service isn't that stellar. They have looked after me about 50% of the time and sometimes they needed nudging to do that. I started a long time ago and all my stuff was green and all of my...

I have had the same experience with case neck cracking of ammunition I reloaded (previously once fired Norma brass) in the 80's. Mine wasn't as bad as yours, mostly just longitudinal splits. What was interesting was I also had a batch of ammunition reloaded at exactly the same time with the...

Initially I was going to simply say that vacuum sealing original containers was a pointless exercise but in fact it has some theoretical advantages. Most modern containers are made of HDPE which are highly resistant to passage of water vapour but not so much to oxygen. On the other hand PET...

It's not so much that the WLR primers were undersized and allowed gas to leak and cut the bolt face, it's that they used inferior materials with lousy QC and the primers developed pinholes that allowed high pressue gas to escape and damage firearms. There were large numbers of batches out there...

I put them into a big flannel pillow case and "slosh" them around. Thats dries the surface off and prevents water spotting. Then swinging the pillow case around a few times dislodges most of the internal moisture. In warm weather I then place the sac of cases on the car dash in the sun and the...

The rust doesn't seem to be affecting any critical dimension of the dies so if cosmetics don't matter to you it would be easy enough to just soak them in a mild rust removing solution such a Evapo-rust. 5% citric acid solution works almost as well. The parts come out rust free but not shiny...

My preliminary experience using 357 data for 158gn projectiles in 38 cases but loaded to 357 OAL is that velocities are much LESS than the same load in 357 cases. My crimps are good and my presumtion is that pressures are lower for the last 1/10 inch of travel when the cylinder wall rather than...

ADI madel H4831 then H4831SC for Hodgdon. Was called AR2213 then AR2213SC for the Australian market. The data was interchangeable (adjust for different lots as usual). DownUnder AR2213/H4831 has been discontinued and only the SC version remains. As others have stated, the data for weight of...

16.6gn 296/H110 is right on 1274 fps in a 4 inch ported 686. Win cases, Fed SPM primers, Rem 158gn JHP.. 15.8gn 296 gives me1164 fps in a K frame 4 inch S&W 65-3. Win cases, Win SPM, Sierra 158gn JHP.

A couple of points. https://leeprecision.com/3-die-set-357-mag-carbide.html This Lee 357 set won't load every step for 38 Spec (the FLS die works though). If you don't over expand your case mouth you won't need the crimp part of your seating die to start the taper. Just seat to the desired...

Missed it by that much !!!

https://leeprecision.com/reloading-dies/hand-gun-dies/taper-crimp-die/ Lee makes a taper crimp die (38/357 part numbers are the same) but even they say it is no improvement over their current crimp/seater die. I have taper crimp dies in various calibres from Lyman, RCBS, Redding and Hornady...

The ADI site includes AP70/Universal data for 9mm jacketed bullets.