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I have added a grip adapter for S&W K frames to the BK lineup. It turns out that it fits well on K, L and N frames, both square and round butt. So I now have adapters available for all but the X frames (which I have never handled, but assume are not likely candidates for service grips with...

For those of you looking for a grip adapter for a S&W J frame (except, perhaps, for the M&P340) I am making them in cast resin and have some available for $20 plus shipping. I'm calling them BK Grips. If you are interested, I have posted an ad at...

Had a strange experience today - the first time I've experienced this. I loaded up some 38 Specials with Rainier 125g RNFP plated bullets and Clays powder. Based on the data sheet downloaded recently from Hodgdon's web site, for "125gr Cast LRNFP" I loaded rounds at 2.5, 2.8, 3.1 and 3.4g of...

I find I have more primers than allowed for storage inside my house according to the standards set by the International Fire Code, which my municipality has adopted. I'm not so much concerned about the fire marshal as by my insurance company, which may resist paying a claim if I have excess...

Have been using a Shooting Chrony Gamma Master quite contentedly for 5-6 years. Yes, it has a pretty quirky interface, and does not easily download data to a computer (anybody got a serial port on their computer these day?) but I've made it work. Recently, though, it has been giving wildly...

On another thread it was mentioned that Lee disk powder measures will work on Dillon presses (the 450 and 550 were mentioned specifically.) I have a Lee Loadmaster with 6 heads for different calibers, all with their own powder measure. I think occasionally about switching to a Dillon 650 for...

Our range had a "manufacturer's day" yesterday, where a bunch of reps brought their wares and you could shoot whatever you wanted, as long as you bought the ammo from the vendor who set up with them. I was admiring a J-frame S&W 22 - very light alloy frame, very snub barrel, very cute. But...

I decided to work up a 357 Magnum load for my Ruger Blackhawk using Remington 158g JHP bullets and Accurate #9 powder. I made up 10 different sets stepping up in 0.2g increments from the 13.5g starting load to the 15.0g max load shown in the Accurate Data Book for Hornady 158g XTP bullets - the...

I wonder if anyone else has had this experience when reloading the 9x18 Makarov. Using a Lee Loadmaster with a 19S shell plate - same as for 9x19 Luger, and what's specified by Lee for the Makarov. Last night I reloaded mixed brass containing Win, S&B and Starline cases - some of the Starline...

After defending Lee equipment on this and other forums for the past several months I'm a bit reluctant to ask this, but . . . Tonight while loading some 9mm on a Loadmaster using a Disk powder measure, I got occasional cases with little or no powder in them. At first I was using the measure...

What would a "standard" 45 ACP 230g hardball load chronograph at? I have the impression it's somewhere in the 800's but am wondering if there is any consensus on this. I've only shot Auto Rim lead bullets in a revolver for many years, but my kid now has a 1911 that we're going to spend some...

My son is considering getting a 223, and we were discussing the prospects of reloading for it. We reload for his 45 Auto now using carbide dies in my Lee Loadmaster, but when I described the need for lubrication of rifle cases he, having inherited his father's laziness genes, began thinking of...

If this should be posted on another forum I apologize in advance, but I presume that I have the problem as a consequence of my reloading efforts so I'm starting here. I posted in another thread the results I had with some 44 Mag reloads recently - velocities exactly as predicted in a...

Decided last week to work up some magnum level 44 Mag loads for my 7.5 inch Super Blackhawk and 20 inch Marlin 1894 carbine, using Accurate #9 powder. I have Nosler 240g jacketed flat point bullets, which are not listed in the Accurate data book, and so I used data for the closest match, IMI...

I recently got a Shooting Chrony chronograph, and it came with a demo disk of Chrony Ballistics I software. As best I can tell, this is a partial version of an old piece of software - I couldn't get it to take any more than 8 characters in a file name, for example. I can "upgrade" this demo...

I've been reloading for about 25 years, but just got my first chronograph last week (Shooting Chrony.) Today I shot some commercial 9mm Speer 115g Gold Dot rounds across it and got some astonishing speeds. This is not marked as +P ammunition, but the slowest round (out of 10) was 1249 fps and...

I've been using Accurate #5 for my 9mm loads, and have no complaints about its general performance (don't have a chronograph, though, so can only guess about exact velocities.) But after a 300 round session at the range (2 guns) there's a lot of soot to clean out. It's not nasty, and cleans...