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For your barrels sake please no heat. Kroil and pre-soaking have worked well for me.

Perhaps one of the mods would be kind enough to give this thread a boot into the correct section. As for the twist it is 1:20 RH which sounds slow, but I have no experience with PP cast. This started...

I am no expert and mean no disrespect but I was under the impression that a 45acp rests on the case mouth in the chamber? Perhaps one of the sages here can answer with certainty. If the case mouth is...

I go 00.002" over my slug size in my 45-70. I agree with Harter66 with making sure you can chamber easily, firing a weapon out of battery is potentially fatal.

Yup I will happily stay in second class paying $20.00 for a 7 gallon bucket full of clean WW smiling all the while.

Ok, I am just wondering if there is any possibility this would work. Take a 230 grain boolit intended for a 45ACP (.452 as cast i think) paper patch to .460ish seated over 4 or 5 grains of bullseye....

I have a friend with access to a mass spectrometer so I wouldn't make a good customer. However even with free access I have never felt the need to have an analysis. If it's to hard add lead to soft...

I have a new (to me) Yugoslavian M24/47 rifle. I have throughly cleaned and removed all of the cosmoline and cleaned the bore. The gun shoots surplus ammo pretty well, no real target work done just...

I have a lee 4-20 and mine functions fine with no leaks yet. Please note this is still a fairly new pot less than 20 hours running so far.

I have a Lyman 457124 which has a fairly rounded nose, a bit to much for my piece of mind in a 45-70 GG. I had considered having the mold hollow pointed, but since I have access to a full machine...

Modification of the equipment is half the fun! Seriously my dies are set up for each gun. If I get a new gun, I buy a die set to go with it, I really got my wife to buy that PLEASE don't tell her any...

Same here I will cast for an hour or two, the heat in Alabama prevents much more.

I have new brass that I have loaded and fired. I will only fire these rounds in the same weapon a 45-70 that they were already fired from. Is resizing the case a must? This may be an absurd question...

I understand the principal but since your equation would allow for an accurate reading out to 00.0001 on most mics, a homemade angle block is the only part of this I wonder about. WAIT! The...

Yeah I plan to make this a light kickin hunting load. Two rounds at a time one in the tube one in the chamber. I jump most game under 75 yards where I hunt so as long as I do my part it's no problem....

I have a Lyman 457124 mold, some IMR 4198 and a marlin guide gun with ballard rifling. I have slugged the marlin out at .4575. The mold throws .4585 as cast so I have pan lubed with 50/50 bees wax...

lol Yeah I think I have developed a flinch! I am now reduced to shooting prone with a folded towel between me and the weapon. The group did tighted up a tiny bit when I opened up the sizing die. My...

Well I took my Lee 00.4570 sizer die, and opened it up to push a pill out at 00.4585. I hesitate to run it up to 00.460 without testing along the way. I am gonna cast today LLA lube tonight, and will...

I just went through this myself. I found that I was trying to shoot WAY to hot and using quenched WW that were .0005 larger than my barrel just didn't work.
My solution was slow the round down to...

Thanks for the advise BABore, I have enough unsized at .460 left from my last casting run to test. I do have two questions. If I use a bigger pill do I need to be worried about excessive pressure?...

We have a gun show in Birmingham Alabama this weekend I am gonna go see if I can save that $20 haz-mat fee and get a couple of different powders. Varget (Hodgdon) comes in at 117 on the powder burn...

mustanggt just wondering if I shoot as cast .460 for me with WW also, will the pressure increase to uh oh levels? I have a few still as cast with no GC pressed on yet. As for the scope bite I will...

Man if you get angry with yourself and feel the need for abuse use my recipe above! In the mean time I am gonna go get me a pound of Reloder-7 and a lighter boolit mold. Thanks for the advise.

lol 104 in Jemison Alabama just a nice southern afternoon! Brian the gun has only had 60 or so rounds run in it. Plus these 5 one of which gave me a nice 1" long scope bite cut over my eye...

The problem was finding any relevant data for that size pill and powder combo. I backed off 10% of the lowest grain load I could find from a reputable site. How much would you recommend I back off on...