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    L&L AP Press Serial Numbers & Purchase Date Info Data Base - Updated

    Hey folks, This is an update for new info provided to this date. This Hornady L&L AP serial number list was started on another thread from back at the beginning of 2010, and folks continue to provide new data as new machines continue to be sold. --------Hornady LNL AP Serial Numbers &...
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    L&L Powder Measure Changes Over Past 14 Years

    Hey folks, In the most recent several, or more, years now, I have been reading what folks have been discussing about the Hornady powder measure on their L&L AP presses. These folks have been talking about buying a new L&L press and having to buy a second rotor drum for their powder measure...
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    Making Your Own Gas Checks

    Hey folks, I started using copper gas checks 50 years ago when they were cheap as dirt - less than $3 per thousand. At that time, primers powders and bullets were also dirt cheap. As years went by, gas checks and other components kept going up in price until they became quite a significant...
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    Lyman Warranty - Not Good

    Hey folks, I have been using Lyman dies, Lubrisizer, moulds, case trimmer, and other stuff for many years - some of them for over 50 years. I think Lyman's quality is good, but their customer service as far as covering items under warranty is now and always has been (in my experience) lousy...
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    L&L AP Press Seeking Serial Numbers & Purchase Date Info Data Base - Updated.

    Hey folks, Based on the interest generated in another thread concerning L&L presses, I have started a new thread listing data last updated in March of 2010. The last reported data from the thread of March 2010 (http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=500013) is as follows...
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    M1 Garand Win-13

    Hey folks, I have decided to sell my firearms collection, and I am wondering how to get a fair price different items. I searched on the buy/sell forum for information on the subject rifle, but I did not find anything. I would like to sell my M1 Garand Win-13 that was purchased through the...
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    Own An LNL AP Press? Seeking Serial Numbers & Purchase Date Info For Data Base

    Hey folks, The Hornady LNL AP progressive press has been in production since 1997, and I was curious as to how many of these presses have been made since then along with how the production numbers changed throughout the twelve plus years they have been on the market. About a week or so ago I...
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    Serial Numbers On Hornady LNL AP Presses

    Hey folks, On another thread about LNL AP presses, I mentioned that I bought my press back in 1997 when they first came out and that the serial number on my press was something less than 1500. I am away for the winter, so I cannot check the exact number now, but I am pretty sure it is...
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    Permanently Locking In The L&L Bushing

    Hey folks, In the past week (maybe two) or so, there was a thread wherein there was discussion of the L&L bushing feature and probably comparison to the Dillon tool head. Someone, I cannot remember who, mentioned that he did not consider the L&L bushing to be a benefit to him and that he was...
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    38 Caliber Cast Bullets w/Aluminum Gas Checks

    Hey folks, I started a thread on the "Buy, Sell and Trade: Reloading Components and Gear" THR forum with the intention of selling my own hard cast 38 caliber bullets. These bullets are from a Lyman #358156 mould, a Ray Thompson design, with a nominal weight of 155 grains before gas check and...
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    .357 Gas Check Making Tool

    Hey folks, I recently bought one of Charlie Darnall's .357 gas check making tools from him on E-Bay. I paid for it immediately, and Charlie sent it out to me just as immediately. I was eager to start using it and got a thin sheet of virgin lead to cut the discs from an aluminum soda can. Then...
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    Hornady L&L AP Has Changed Over The Years

    Hey folks, I made a few posts on other threads concerning issues with the Hornady L&L AP. Then I was reading another thread where one of the folks shows pictures of his L&L, and I notice there is a big difference in the primer feed mechanism from the primer feed on mine. When looked at the...
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    Information On R F Wells Model C Press?

    Hey folks, I just bought an R F Wells Model C press that looks rather similar to the old Herter's Model 3 metallic "C" frame press. They are both massive old beasts. Like the Herter's press, the ram on the Wells press is set up for screw on shell holders. First I would like to know...
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    Back to Reloading?

    Hey Folks, It has been a while since I have been on the forum. In the spring of 2005, we sold our place in Dillsburg, and, without having purchased a new house as yet, we packed all our belongings into several storage units. All my reloading stuff that had been in the same place for 21 years...
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    Batch of Wheel Weights

    Hey Folks, I took my son-in-law to Sam's for tires yesterday. He came home with four new tires, and I came home with three small buckets full of wheel weights and the required extra junk like old valve stems, paper, and a lot of sunflower seed shells. I spent about four hours this evening...
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    Building a M14 on an Armscorp Receiver?

    Builoding an M14 On An Armscorp Receiver? Hey folks, A few days ago I got information on buying an M14 from West Texas Ordnance. For $1,100 plus $25 shipping, he will build what sounds like a very good rack grade M14 on an Armscorp receiver with all USGI parts. For about $40 more, he will...
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    M1 Garand: Powder Residue Marks on Brass?

    Hey folks, I would like to describe a situation that is happening with my Garand, and then I would like to propose what I think the reason may be for what is occurring. When I last fired my Garand a few months ago, I noticed the spent casings all had what looked a bit like a bunch of lube...
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    LRB Arms M14 Receivers

    Hey folks, Does anyone know anything about the LRB Arms M14 Receivers they are advertising? Best wishes, David Wile
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