Recent content by PsychoKnight

Blarby - thank you for your honesty and humility. Know that your psychological generosity is making the reloading community safer. I'm pretty cautious already. I feel ten times smarter learning from your detailed experience. I wear a whole freakin' Craftsman faceshield when I reload the primer...

No I don't think you can do that. The flakes won't fit through the case mouth, silly! But seriously, when I shot a 10-1/2" barreled Super Blackhawk, 800x was the best; highest velocity, tightest long-range groups, and clean burn. With magnum revolver rounds, its worth your time to drop...

45acp brass cut to the length of 45gap and handloaded will not fully chamber into a 45gap pistol. I tried with several hundred acp cases of various manufacture and primer pocket sizes. Possibly, it would work if you used .448 or .449 bullets, but how are you going to do that? And why would you...

Yep, that's the only explanation. Almost did that myself, but it didn't feel right going into the sizer die. Take a look at the spray, and what do you know? No biggie, just went over all the brass again with the right spray and everything was honkie dory. Now, when something goes wrong...

Thanks for the safety reminder. Another example of why its important to participate in a community if one becomes a reloader. Most reloading books make mention about avoiding confusion when switching powders, but its here that you get real life examples of how mistakes happen, and ideas people...

Quality Powder for 45: VV-n320 Nobody has anything bad to say for it. Meters smoothly High velocity to pressure ratio (i.e. efficient) Consistent performance for tight groups Minimal flash/smoke Pretty much everything you could want in a pistol powder in the 9mm-45acp range...

okay, this will sound weird, but it works, really well. The beam bearings needs to settle in each time after getting knocked around by removing and replacing the pan. The best way to do this is by controlled vibration. I stole the wife's egg vibrator, cleaned it up real good (ewe), then...

After using it for 13 yrs, I also sold my LoadMaster for about the same as new. That doesn't mean it was worth the money. But when there's few avail, there's always a few who don't know what they're doing, and they just have to have a used LM no matter what, even if they could get a better...

I'm thinking a plywood lid by using the bowl mouth as the trace pattern to cut two discs; one slightly bigger than the bowl, one slightly smaller, then glue-crownstaple them together. Cover with dynamat or roofing asphalt tile, paint the edges black.

Most are easy fixes. There is a sliding metal plate at the square opening at the of the bowl. This adjusts the opening size and hence timing of when the case drops into the chute. A lot of people get misfeeds (sideways, upside down drops) due to the plate. Unscrew and remove the plate and...

Its okay if you're only going to do short action rifle, but if you are planning on longer cartridges for the future, the Lee Classic Cast is more appropriate. Even better is the LCT, Lee Classic Turret which will do pistol and rifle just as well, but about 3 times faster than a single stage...

The two clamp screws he was referring to was for the LnL PM, not the Dillon PM. He was talking Hornady, you thought he was talking Dillon. Hornady is wrong. The fact that they don't offer a powder baffler for the hopper in their line of measures tells me they don't know powder. You get...

I sold my LoadMaster on ebay for almost as much as I paid for it, after 11 years of ownership. Such is the anamolies of hysteric bidding. Huge mistake. I spent sleepless nights worried about a low transaction rating on my profile and kept trying to contact buyer to offer help if they were to...

I have a 5 and 6 year old girl. I am frank about the reloading tools and components, as I am about questions about sex. I have convered the study room inhto their pet and play room, but it also happens to be my reloading room as of two weeks ago. They've been playing with my jacketed bullets and...

Doesn't matter that the o.p. got a warranty replacement. Or as a gift. It aint a happy scale. Don't go cheap digital. My 'pinion is that you don't back up a cheap beam scale with a cheap digital scale. You'll be happiest with the Dillon Eliminator, better than the 5-0-5 because it has a...