311041. For MicroGroove Marlins, the Ranch Dog moulds cast large enough to be effective in the oversized Marlin grooves, and also have a tangential ogive that keeps the "bore riding" portion of...
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311041. For MicroGroove Marlins, the Ranch Dog moulds cast large enough to be effective in the oversized Marlin grooves, and also have a tangential ogive that keeps the "bore riding" portion of...
I've found very few uses for magnum primers in anything when using cast boolits, but when I used to shoot jacketed there were a few loads using slow powders that seemed to prefer them...
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Most SAA-style and pressure guns shoot to POA with 255-ish boolits. You can go heavier or lighter if you monkey with powder burn rate (use HS6 if it shoots low, Titegroup or Clays if it shoots...
There's always Ken (45Nut) and Willy's forums if you're more into shooing and less reloading......
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Ed's red for all bore and gun cleaning, I make it by the gallon.
Outers Foul-out II for copper fouling, followed by either Shooter's Choice copper solvent, Sweet's 762, or Hoppes' Benchrest #9...
+1 7of7.
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I make a half-dozen "dummies" for every repeater I have and prove the action out with them before loading any for real, but I never put primers in them. The first time you go to the range and have...
I vacuum smokeless powder all the time, even if it did light off in the turbine what's it going to do without being contained? Ever light off a pile of mixed or questionable smokeless powder? Not...
I'm in for the 4350 for sporter-length barrels also, my powder of choice back when I used jacketed bullets.
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Been proven safe time and again in vibratory tumblers, I do it too sometimes, but I won't criticize anyone for being a little skiddish about it. I do mine outside on the other side of a big oak...
Ditto, have an ancient Savage 219 30-30 and just got an NEF .45 Colt, love 'em both! Something feels good about stepping to the firing line with the action open and three cartridges wedged between...
Another plug for the Citric Acid cleaner recipe next door.
I boil my brass in the solution mentioned, pull the brass out, rinse in hot water, put on a towel in the sun for at least a day, then in...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |