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I do it all the time, (twice in the last 2 weeks) mainly because I'm busy and easily distracted (unless I'm focused on one thing in particular). Squirrel!! Comes out cleaner than it needs to be, shiny and just fine. The sauce used during these tragedies is a little liquid Tide, SS pins and a...

I've never seen it in small quantities like that Jim. Know anyone who cleans concrete or is a welder? I'm not a real welder, I just fix and make stuff around the ranch. I use HCL to remove the zinc from galvanized metal to avoid the zinc gas when welding it. It also comes in handy when a wheel...

Put a few drops of muriatic acid (HCL) on the yellow section. If it bubbles it's probably zinc. Tin oxide may be a golden color as well. I know that my pewter ingots often have a golden color at times, but that might be from the small amount of copper. Not sure because I'm no metallurgist :).

As slow as I am PapaG, 17 days will be no problem :) Like the other recommendations as well. <edit> Oh, and I have 4198...

Ha, funny old world aint it! Yep, I agree. It always depends on your gun and you!

So much good input here. Thanks!

Thanks Charlie, I think they come out of the mold as .310 (with range scrap). Might get smaller with tin/pewter though. Will have to check.

Expansion... I did not think of that. Great!

Hey folks. I've been casting bullets for my handguns (45 auto, 45 colt and 40 S&W) for a while using nothing but my range scrap, but this is my first time casting a rifle bullet for 30-30 Winchester or maybe 30-06 or 308 or even 303 British. To make a harder alloy, what I did was melt 2lbs of...

We've all been through a lot of the "Scares" and there were a lot of powders that were getting hard to find. It was fun trying out different powders and casting and sometimes powder coating bullets. Ramshot Zip, Clays, HP38/W231, WST, Bullseye, WSF, Long(Loud)shot, CFE pistol and more. It seemed...

Hi Scott. no I was using it on my single stage Redding.

After using mine for the first time a few minutes ago, I think your reasoning is right Scott. It does take a little more force than most other operations, other than sizing cast. My first impressions were very good as well.

A few years back I did a review of a go/no go gage here on the forum. Folks here are so helpful to me that I felt the need to provide something in return. I understand the manufacturer has improved it since then, but even with some small flaws at the time, it worked.. You just had to get used to...

Like Carbine85, IMR 4895 has worked very well for me. In particular with those 55gr Midway Dogtown hollow points I used to get. At the time, they looked a lot like Noslers. I found a node with my gun at 24.5gr imr 4895 at an oal of 2.257" (but your mileage will probably be different). Used a...

Thanks for the video. I think its fine and if that is part of the reloading process one enjoys, cool. My cases don't look nearly that fancy. I stick my brass in some old jars on a tumbler I slopped together in the barn in an hour with some walnut shells in the jars. Usually run 2 or 3 jars of...

Cool Dan, I saw how tricky this is.

"A buddy said to try the Hornady lube and it works amazingly." And it works well on your boots too! :)

Like Blue mentioned,(after looking at my past load data), I also had good luck with W231/HP38 as well with 115gr bullets.

I use the RCBS version, but only to clean them out and to make sure the crimp was removed properly. Very useful to me for that pupose. I guess my vote should be for every case, but I dont shoot well enough for it to matter, so I dont want to skew your poll.

West Kentucky wisdom right there. I had neglected to mention that.