Recent content by toecutter

Again, I measured all of the primer pockets and found them to be in spec, this is brand new starline .45LC brass, the pockets were of similar (within .0005) of other lots of brass I already had on the prod floor. It seems what happened is these primer cups may have been annealed too much...

Ammonia dope is by far the best de-coppering agent you can get, and best of all you can make it at home. Or you can be like the rest of the world and just use sweets 7.62 (which works great, and is pretty much ammonia dope with a surfactant). As for de-leading, there are a number of things...

So I've been running the ammo load today, and I have been having some problems with high primers (a not-uncommon, but easily fixed issue). I made the normal adjustments but found the problem was not getting any better. I loaded approximately 2000 rounds with a high primer occuring approximately...

Honestly, that pic looks like the same half-formed bullet I got in a box of remington a while ago. I never had any explosions or rounds that squibbed, but the bullet looks about the same. The thing that doesn't make any sense, is in the nearly 20 years I've been loading ammo a centerfire...

While I admit I have never shot any of the GA ammo, many of the "conclusions" pointed to in the link kingtiger provided I'm calling shenanigans on. For anyone who has ever loaded military ball powder, especially SMP735, it is nearly impossible to get an overcharge that will detonate the gun. At...

Yea, Dave at CH4D has produced most of the star-crimp dies I've used. You can usually just buy the crimping attachment, and then throw it in a size die to hold the case steady during crimping. The CH4D dies are definately the easiest to use, and produce a nice rounded crimp. I've used some...

I made some of these a while ago, but havn't had much time to really develop the idea. Thanks for posting the article about it. I have been looking for that reference material for a while. The few that I made were done by first trimming the cases with a slit-saw on the mill using a custom...

Griz, Congratulations on your milestone. Lee presses irritate the hell out of me, but if no one liked them they wouldn't have remained in business this long... I'm still a dillon fan though, as 10K rounds would be a long days work on a 1050 :neener:

Few things to keep in mind... The Giraud and the Gracey Trimmers (I have the gracey and a dillon) both deburr as well as trim. If you are looking to just get a bunch of brass done, the dillon is likely the way to go. I used to use a drill press and the lee case trimming stuff, but the problem...

Good stuff... The only two things I can say, get a small-base die, this will guarantee your brass is "undersized" so you get more reliable feeding. While it may not be necessary to use this on the same brass already fired from your gun, it's a worth-while step. Also, when it comes to case lube...

Wally, I'm more just trying to determine what the actual difference is. Do 8 round mags use a different follower? Different spring? Different mag body?

While it seems like a compelling deal, that collection has "ghetto" written all over it. If you do decide to go with the guns, execute the transfer through a licensed FFL, while the downside is it creates a paper trail, the upside is it creates a paper trail in case someone comes looking for...

yea, they have the tabs, but the space where the spring follower is supposed to be swaged in is totally inadequate to do so. Pretty much I am trying to determine the country of origin out of morbid curiousity (my current guess is china) or someone else trying to pull a fast one.

Wolf Gold (probably the same as the S&B stuff) $12/box at my local shop, 174 grain FMJ-BT. Shoots great, reloads great. No complaints at all.

So, this may be a stupid question to some. But I was tearing apart one of my 1911 mags for cleaning the other day, and I started wondering why the surplus 1911 mags I bought for $5 are somehow inferior to the commercial mags I would buy for $30. The thing I was wondering, is it seems there is no...