Recent content by UnderDawgAl

I bought a Model 64 that was an Austrian Customs Police trade-in off GB a few years ago. It needed some external polishing, but it had evidently hardly seen any firing--live or dry. I take it to the range nearly every single time I go, no matter what else I intend to shoot. I really enjoy...

When the 380 is a nice Beretta 84 or 85.

HP38 is normally my go-to powder for handguns. My .380 loads of 3.2 grains HP38 with 100-grain Berry's Plated RN were accurate, but also fairly dirty. Then I switched to Green Dot, which also shoots well in the handgun calibers I load. My load of 2.9 grains was very accurate, but it left the...

Like bds says, Green Dot (intended as a shotshell powder) is a fine substitute for W231/HP-38. I suspect it's also more readily available. In fact, I now prefer Green Dot over the other for 9mm and .38 Special. I've also shot it successfully in .380 ACP and .40 S&W. When I get time, I plan...

Thanks for advising us. I just ordered two.

The Browning website continues to show a variety of Buckmarks in production, but I haven't seen any for sale in years (well before the current panic), except for a Camper model here and there. Do they only make a few a year?

For my home-cast 95-grain lead bullets, I used 3.4-3.6 grains of Win231/HP-38 successfully. It was a mild load and fairly accurate.

My buddy's LCP had repeated stovepipes and failures to feed with PMC ammo. I witnessed it with my own eyes. After a few stovepipes, we put in some of my 20-year-old Federal American Eagle white box (anybody remember those?) and had no problems. We began alternating mags of my ammo and his...

I love them. I have had no misfires after about 1,500 rounds. I HAVE had misfires with Winchester.

There are two entries for Primer, Cap Type in the 49CFR, one for class 1.1 and the other for class 1.4. The large/small pistol primers and large/small rifle primers are 1.4. As freakshow10mm and others have noted, shipping primers or powder requires strict adherence to DOT and FAA...

Here's the 64 I just bought off GunBroker. It's a re-import from the Austrian Customs Police. Total cost was $285. It shoots very well. I'll be shooting it again in the morning. In fact, it'll get a lot of rounds through it over the next couple of years.

I've got a CZ 82, in which I have shot cast bullets that I cast from the LEE 365-95-1R mould, I believe it is. It's a lead round nose bullet. I'm woefully short on 9x18 brass, so I've only shot about 50 rounds of cast through it. There was no leading. I had no sizing die for that size, so I...

solvability, I got the humor and enjoyed it. schmeky, I agree with you. In my brief 2 years of reloading experience, I've found W231/HP-38 to be a great powder for my paper-punching. I'm using it for 357/38, 9mm, and 9x18. My loads range from powder puff to fairly warm. In fact, I just...

All right, here's the correct link to explain that the Improved Loaders neck size only, while the Unitized Loaders full-length resize. Scroll down to page 5 of the magazine (which is page 4 of the PDF file) and look at the ad on the right-hand side of the page. You can find both kinds under...

Vacek, The unitized loaders do, indeed, full-length resize. The old Lee company, Lee Custom Engineering, later was reincorporated as Mequon Reloading Corporation. Back then, they upgraded the traditional loaders with two versions--the Improved (neck resize and additional hand priming system)...