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When I broke my last pin and no backup, I got by using a picture hanging nail. Naturally I had a collet type decaping stem so I could easly replace the "pin."

Speaking of a 30-30 plinker or rabbit load: If anyone has some 7.62 x 25mm "tuna cans" of this ammo in their stash, I found a great use for it. Primers were dead in about 1/3 of the 1200 or so cartridges that came in my can. Note the 7.62 designation. I put a micrometer on the bullet and it...

System harmonics?

I remember the bronze point as a common factory loading back in late '50's and '60's. They were popular for quite a while.

I shoot four different 45 Colts, with barrel lengths up to 7 1/2 inches, I use 7 1/2 grains of Unique behind anything from 185gr to 225gr with good results. Moving up to 8.0 or 8.5 grains improves nothing but recoil. Mostly lead but maybe 5% jacketed; leading minimal. One Ruger, 3 S&W.

Small math correction: To make a 5% tin alloy, you will need 50/.95 = 52.63 pounds of finished alloy. Thus you need 2.63 pounds of tin instead of the 50x.05=2.5 pounds of tin as you calculated. The 2.5 pounds added to the 50 of lead gives 52.50 pounds alloy. 2.5 pounds tin/52.50 total alloy...

I don't have a bullet as light as 185 grains, so cannot comment as to accuracy at that weight. using. I never measured COL. Was using new Starline brass. On-line tables for Winchester WSF has reloading info.

Maybe I just have a strange 220, but so far it shoots Winchester WSF better than anything. See if you can borrow a few ounces and check it out behind a 230 or 200 grain bullet.

I meant no insult using the word "ignorant" -- it simply means "lack of knowledge." I have used extremely reduced handloads in my 45-70 with no adverse results. Unique is a good powder for reduced loads.

Much difference between black and smokless powder as far as pressure. Black powder wants the bullet set right on top of the powder charge -- hence the "70" in the 45-70. That's 70 grains of black powder behind a 400 or so lead bullet. Try that with smokless powder and you have made a bomb that...

Can't comment on others, but Hodgen got started buying up surplus military powders (eg 4831) and when his supply ran our, he contracted with some one else to make the stuff and called it H4831. Similar to BC and BC(2).

use a flashlight to look down the mouth of the case to the base. If you see only one primer hole in the base, you are good to go since you have a boxer primer that your primer pin in your resizing die will punch out. IF you see two holes on either side of the case head, you have a burdan case...

Where was the powder measure made? Could be metric threads.

Educate yourself on Berdan primers. You cannot reload cases with those primers without big trouble and trying to decap one will destroy your decapping pin. (don't ask me how I know) Many if not most European cartridges use the Berdan primer system.

Mitutoyo has/had a patent on a battery saving feature for calipers etc, so the batteries on Mitutoyo calipers last significantly longer than the cheapies. My experience exactly. Try Ebay first for new ones. Analog ones are okay if you have good eyesight.

When we had coons, cats, possum, etc. messing up our garbage cans, I had good luck by just pouring a little ammonia over the trash in the can. I would think an electric fence would work at high voltage (low current), but I would try ammonia on the food in the can first.

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Its pretty simple. As you seat and crimp at the same time you are pushing the bullet down at the same time you are bending in the case neck for the crimp. This means you are scraping into the bullet and leaving gouges as you crimp. Those gouges/troughs do not help accuracy. Using separate steps...

I purchased a Bowen "hand canon" in a 5-cylinder .45 Colt. Using the load data sheet that came with the resolver ALL bullets I tried came out as a result of recoil after the fourth or fifth shot using standard dies. The Lee factory crimp die fixed the problem. I am a firm believer in this die...

My standard load in the .38 Special has been 5.0 grains of Unique for the last 40 years. Does not seem to matter what bullet weight I put in front of it; good accuracy and not oppressive recoil. I don't use this in J-frame size guns because of the potential wear. Although the laws of physics...