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I load jacketed data in 380,38 short 9×17 ,38 Spcl, &357 with no ill effects.

The cast will occupy slightly less case space than jacketed .
Lead is more slippery than copper.
Because cast is...

I gave up and did this for the 45 ACP. It's only about 1/2" deep so it's much easier for my fat fingers to get the cases out to seat bullets .
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These went easy enough that I'll do several...

I dug around a little and found I had a suitable rod for the primer pocket swage die .
I had to make a "pushrod" to get full primer rim contact on the shotgun primers.
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I had gotten a batch...

After many years of wish booking and prices getting higher instead of finding a deal I have decided to take an alternate course .

That course includes roll crimps and otherwise disregarded dies . ...

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After hits at 100 yds with x39 sporting GI steel jacket.

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My hooks and leg tabs wouldn't fit the 1" threaded aluminum conduit. They were designed for this wall 1" steel......

I picked up some 3/8" rebar and bent a pair of 36" triangles with 6" legs to...

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From my assorted "bucket of junk" accumulations , "the 20 yr bucket" , and junk drawers .

#1 as a lot .
Lachmiller 44 Mag Spcl 3 die carb set original box.
44 Spcl Midway cartridge gauge, and...

The Art & Science of Bullet Casting
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As the old saw goes close only counts in horse shoes , hand grenades ,and nuclear weapons.

A review of the history......
About 2015;
There was an...

I don't want this to devolve into that serves no purpose and just makes it harder later , its stupid, etc . If it's stupid and works for me it's not stupid and if it makes a difference on target it's...

Transfer to small sheets from the large backers .

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Loaded 30 7×57 , 6 loads of 5ea in 4350 . 20 with the 7mm-168 RCBS and 2 loads with 287-154 NOE Hunter .

50 each of the proven 35-250 RCBS in the 358 Win .

I shot all of that up in like May the 358 is really docile in that 8.5# Mauser pattern rifle .

125 gr 2" groups at 2600 fps in the 25-06' .

I can't remember the last time I saw so many get...

I posted 2-3 things I was doing nothing even from the "regulars" . I thought 24-2500 fps with 125gr cast in a 1-9 twist 25-06' was something to talk about.
Getting a 6.5 Japanese down to 3.5" from...

Any time you add a reamer you're introducing a new variable where you may already have 4-5 reamers involved .

In a perfect world you're chamber gauge would be cut with the same reamer that cut...

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Last Tuesday I took off for my birthday and celebrated the solitude of an empty range .

I took Dad's M700 Varmint Master 25-06' with the OM wide shoe trigger , early 1972 . Very...

Dad's M700 . This is where Dad shot his load zeroed at 200 yd 100gr SMK or PH at 3100 fps I haven't run the cast loads over the Chrony yet but the 125 gr cast should be about 1900 with Unique and...

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I've used 3-4 different tools and methods to "get the first shot on paper" . Like so many of us vision changes have changed the means . In my 20s , enough...

Hard cast is a marketing term . There's 10 ways to get a bhn number and 8 very different results. Fit stops fouling .

I'll be watching the progress .

Free hand , kind of an upright Weaver stance, I was shooting 3" at 25 yd . For a compact type pistol with a floating barrel ,bone factory stock , self defense type auto I was satisfied as I had...

That makes me feel pretty good about my 2.5" XD40 .

I wish it was 4" I could get 1000 fps MV.
I used Unique with cast .

Just for geewiz what do get with the 175/180s ?

The groups look good to me . What range ?