Oh, I know
Oh, I know
Oh, I know
Is that from the powder coating process, or just from handling powder coated bullets?If ya know, ya know.
Is that from the powder coating process, or just from handling powder coated bullets?
I have put grits in loads before, but only when I load blackpowder type powder. No reason to do it in smokeless unless using case sensitive powder. But before I would do that, I would change powders.Cleaned up a bunch of brass from my range trip / ammo tests on Monday. I will analyze my data and choose a favorite load in a day or two and start loading some up.
Question: Have any of you heard of mixing crushed corn in a cowboy cartridge? Not that I intend on doing that but I was told some competition cowboy shooters do that to 1) fill the cartridge and 2) shoot a spreading load (easier to pop the balloons). Interesting.
TIA
Elmer
I haven't done anything like that --- YET --- but I do tend to get a bit absent minded when I get into a rhythm. Gotta watch that. Sorry for your pain but thanks for the reminder.Yesterday was a first for me. Was decapping a bunch of 308 on a single stage press and had a good rhythm going until I fumbled a case with my left hand. My right hand failed to notice what my left was doing and closed the press anyway. Only caught a bit of the finger between the brass and the die, which is good because what it did catch it carved clean off.
Makes sense to me.I have put grits in loads before, but only when I load blackpowder type powder. No reason to do it in smokeless unless using case sensitive powder. But before I would do that, I would change powders.
And how. It also transfers easily to other surfaces.
My wife, she's the cruise director at our house, had booked us a dinner with neighbors, and while she was "putting on her face", I decided to knock out a couple hundred 9mm while I waited. When she was ready I turned off the light and we headed out. At the restaurant our friends asked what I had on my face.
Yup she saw it, and let me wear it.
Gotta love a woman like that.
Cleaned up a bunch of brass from my range trip / ammo tests on Monday. I will analyze my data and choose a favorite load in a day or two and start loading some up.
Question: Have any of you heard of mixing crushed corn in a cowboy cartridge? Not that I intend on doing that but I was told some competition cowboy shooters do that to 1) fill the cartridge and 2) shoot a spreading load (easier to pop the balloons). Interesting.
TIA
Elmer
Played around with me new toy. Measured some 223 handloads from base to tip and was seeing .015" variance. Measured from base to ogive and all rounds we're within .005" of each other.
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I got yo back!Run out of .400 dia 200gr bullets.
Deprimed 520 cases of 38 special. Took about 50 minutes on a single stage press. Done in time to watch Big Bang!
that's flying on a single stage press
Yesterday was a first for me. Was decapping a bunch of 308 on a single stage press and had a good rhythm going until I fumbled a case with my left hand. My right hand failed to notice what my left was doing and closed the press anyway. Only caught a bit of the finger between the brass and the die, which is good because what it did catch it carved clean off.
Deprimed another 5oo pcs of 38 special brass + a 38/22 piece! Fun getting that 22 brass off the pin.
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