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Best as I can square up on them right at .415", and the Lee is right at .310". So there is a bit of difference.

Other than the copper smear on the load gate it is still pretty new. Probably doesn't have 75rds through it yet, but does have a buck and hog to it's credit. Like I mentioned above I initially wanted to run cast through it, but haven't found anything but the Lee bullet that will function...

Every bullet I have made a test round for has run through the side gate and into the mag tube just fine. The issue is with the length from nose to crimp groove, as well as the diameter of the the meplat. Above where I posted having a dozen different molds, that is only for the 44mag, it...

Not trying to scare ya off cast, but I have only found one so far that will function through the action on my Henry. It's the Lee 429-240. I have two hundred PC'ED and GCed ready to load, just haven't had time to set up for testing. The dummy round feeds just fine though. Believe me, I have...

I got my first 243 for Christmas in 70, and still use it on occasion. I didn't start loading for it until around 78. I used a load a great friend and neighbor gave me using the 80gr Sierra and IMR-3031. It shot dime sized groups consistently and dropped deer reliably. I changed bullets in the...

Yeah I agree. It started off simple enough but sorta fell through for all the different uses I seemed to come up with. Like those GP100'S though...

I went through a similar process about a decade or so ago. Just wanted to narrow things down to make it easier and more efficient for my loads. I realized real quick how futile that was going to be. So I ended up with a few but they all do very well. For just up close just getting trigger...

Those look awfully familiar...but these are the Hensley Gibbs versions #130-185gr, #68- 200gr, and #78- 215gr. For numbers shot it would be the 68 noted above middle, followed by the 78. I do shoot a lot of the lighter one but not nearly as many as the others. I would also add that I shoot...

Well he got the first part right anyway..... I honestly could not put a number on the amount I have shot, but ones that were left in the field are probably less than a couple dozen over the past 25+ yrs. The key thing about them is tending to them ASAP and not letting them lay around for an...

Glad to see ya got your cases, you should be happy with them. I use, and have been using them almost exclusively for decades for most all handgun, and in .223, 243, 260, 30-30, and a few others. I have found it to be excellent for my needs. Most of everything I load is for hunting and I have...

As mentioned above it can be accomplished. The biggest issue is skimming the lube off the water each time so as not to let it reattach as you change it out. That said, depending on just what bullet your looking to coat, you might be better off either just shooting them up or possibly swapping...

To the UN well my personal feelings about them are they are simply past their usefulness other than to argue one to another. The rest of the time it seems like they want to create one world order, but that is another discussion altogether. I do not agree with the OP outline of creating warped...

Absolutely wise words to heed. In keeping with that train of thought, the OP might consider the 45-270 SAA bullet to load.. My version come from MP molds as a plain base. It can cast several different HP's and the solid. There are several commercial sellers who have it or a really similar one...

I mostly use White Label Lubes Carnuba Red, but also have a decent amount of his Blue as well as a jug of the 45-45-10. The easiest of all is the last on the list, I just use a vacuum seal bag, dump in 50 or so bullets, a small dab of the lube and warm it with a hair drier then roll em around...

I lucked into a really nice Redhawk a few years back. It matches my 7.5" 41 and 44 except for the dovetails on the rib. I shot my grandpa's old Colt as a youth but we mostly use half-moon clips and 45acp for ammo. He use 255gr flat nose cast. As has been mentioned the ol girl has been the...

I have a screened window on my shop door that is a perfect fit for a 20" box fan. I can set up inside if needed within a couple feet of the door, have the one fan blowing outside and another behind me blowing towards the door. With both on low, even with a handful of sawdust thrown in, the smoke...

That's the chamber on mine. It appears to work just fine with either. I use LC and Starline cases and run loads on the bottom end of the NATO data. I have bullets seated to fit and function from my mags. Different bullets required slight seating changes to feed due to the plastic tips hanging on...

Well I am not even close to the first person who headed down this road, but ya really don't see much if anything mentioned about the handloaded portion of this caliber. So figured I would throw in my initial foray into getting started up. I first found a video on someone making them, then...

Well it sounds like a similar project to me making up a really big batch of 360 BKHMR cases.

I'm with ya, just a necessary evil. I run two different alloys to cover most of my uses. The softer of the two is mainly for all things under 1100fps, so I don't use as much of it as the other which i have run up into the low 2000fps range, but mostly is used for around 1300'ish and my magnum...