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Well I have never seen a 30-30 sniper rifle so my way of thinking is great brush gun for less than 100 YDS. Around here a 30-30 or 12 GA with 00 Buck work equally well as most shots are between 30 and 50 YDS. I don't hunt up in the northern part of the state where they have fields that are many...

If anything I will be selling empty kegs to that museum. They can be safe and fill them with sand for an authentic feel LOL. Everything I buy is planned for eventual use and that includes any safe queens I might happen onto. You are talking to the guy that purchased a couple 40 cal's because I...

I already have tried a large assortment of other brands/types of propellants for many of my established loads. I have kept fair to good records of how they also performed. There is always a plan B or C usually from another manufacturer that will work as good or almost as good for most every...

Having experience, age, and expendable cash to be able to put supplies aside for such times I feel for those that are just starting in reloading or are "just keeping ahead of the wolves" with food and shelter. In the future I will again help local folks with a hand up when things get stupid...

Agreed this is only a temporary reprieve out there. I did not think that the state of Maine would end up where we are today a year or two ago. One multi location mass shooting by someone that should have been red flagged by the military tipped us over the edge. Now we have a 72 hour wait and...

I have a Marlin 336 with microgroove barrel and Lasercast and regular coated bullets work just fine. They do have a different POI than jacketed but are fairly accurate and I find no excess leading in it. All similar to what I find in my 4 Win 94's.

Agreed with this. You are only guessing until you measure your throats and barrel in a revolver. What works with jacketed and plated will fall apart with coated or lead if not sized to fit. Don't discount that you might have a barrel restriction where it screws into the frame. Slugging the...

Without pictures its hard to say but I would offer that if they were bad enough to post about it on here then they are most likely junk like others have said.

I have found that you can mix up wad designs/lengths to a degree but the differences between straight wall and tapered hulls makes enough of a difference that you do not want to try it. Having a blooper and getting things stuck in your barrel are not worth it cause free wads. Wads are cheap...

Quality, price, and availability, in that order for my purchasing. These days you might have to choose C or D choice because it's the only option in stock. Back to choice A when supplies are back to normalish. The bonus is occasionally you find that the new choice is a better alternative than...

A couple pinched fingers over the years loading 25 ACP but never did draw blood thank goodness. Slow and steady goes a long way towards being safe.

Yep! Time for a review of your loading procedure to dummy proof things. You need to figure out what actually happened. Might be a bad brass or might be a double charge or even a high primer. I bet double charge though. I use a loading block and charge 50 at a time then look at all of them...

My thinking is the extractor holding the head of the round in place so the short length is not noticed and will fire. Kinda lile shooting a 9MM in a 40 cal. There the extractor holds the round from falling out the barrel and into alignment for the firing pin to strike. Just because the round...

Thanks for the continuing input.

OP, as I have stated previously I appreciate your tenacity on this subject for the greater good of the reloading community. A lot of us just reload spent brass over and over without a worry. I was always of the mindset if it chambers and is a safe load choot'em. Probably relying on the extracter...

They are one of my go to reloading suppliers for the past 8 years or so. Another for surplus supplies is Pats Reloading if they have what you want it usually is a great deal. They used to have lots of pull down stuff for sale but I have not checked lately.

Great idea OP! Thank you for offering to share your hard work with others here. I presently do not 3D print but have observed that a lot of the members here do. I am sure this will be helpful to many members.

As luck would have it I purchased 8 kegs of propellant and15K assorted primers the August before Covid happened. Have not had to purchase anything other than bullets since. Can't believe I timed that as well as I did. Looks like I might be at least a couple more years before any purchases. Can't...

Yeah! A dollar a round or so is what the minimum prices are around here. These days using what I purchased around 10 years ago I can load a box of 20 with premium bullets for around $5.00. If you can find a Sierra 170 grain FP bullet and some 3031 you should be set as those two seem to be...

Well a little Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, and Led Zepplin all played on random/repeat makes my background music filter smile. Just not too loud for what I am doing.