Recent content by LewG

As an alternative to using a cricket to ream the primer pocket crimp, you can use the CH press mounted primer pocket swage, or the Dillon base mounted primer pocket swage. If you have a lot of brass to do, the Dillon is really nice. These do not uniform the depth of the primer pockets. That is...

CH4D will make titanium nitride coated sizing dies out of any of your dies or a new one of theirs. This will make brass sizing much easier, even with bottleneck cartridges, and the dies will last longer. - Lew http://www.ch4d.com/ Titanium Nitride (TiN) Coating Titanium Nitride coatings...

Perfessr, The "Hanned" Co. makes dies to cut gas checks from Al. cans to get swaged GCs on the bases of PB bullets. They work great. The dies come in many calibers. Go to this site to read about them. The rest of their site is worth reading to learn a lot. If you have any questions, call or...

There are alternatives to the H&G 68 and 130. For BE shooting at 25 and 50 yards, the Star swaged 185 grain LSWCFBHP is turning in a lot of sub- 2 inch 10 shot 50 yard groups. For a bought bullet, instead of home cast, this bullet is hard to beat. - Lew...

The problem with cast bullets, and especially the wax bullets with ony a primer propellent, is your pressure is so low, it could take you 2-3 firings to fully form the case with CB, and I doubt you will do it with the wax bullets and just a primer. Your gunsmith can cut you a fireforming...

JimC, Bullseye-L has had many discussions on the use of this powder. Go to the page below and search the archives. You will find many threads on VV N310. Go to <http://www.lava.net/~perrone/bullseye> Search the archives, and you will find many discussions/threads for use of this...

Thanks for the help. - Lew

Ruger Security Six(357 mag) and S&W Model 27(357 mag) How do I remove the cyllinder from these pistols? Off-List reply to : lewisgoldstein -at- aol.com Thanks - Lew

If we knew what he wanted to shoot it in, we could recommend what to alloy it with for best or cheapest results. If you post this on the Cast Bullet group, this is the first question we would ask you. - Lew

I want to suggest you use the "ladder test" to find the best load for your rifle. You will be able to find a load without shooting out your barrel doing it. Go to "search" at the top of the page and type in <ladder test>. You will get a great amount of information from Fritz Moeller, a...

If you want to calculate "internal ballisticss", play "what if", and with minor tweeking get good straight wall case calculations, and reduced loads for cast bullet shooting, QuickLoad seems to be the program to get. For long range rifle, 1000 yards+, Pejsa Ballistics is the one to get. - Lew

Besides the standard manuals, I would recommend three others that seem to not get much mention, but are really super. For precision reloading techniques, no loads, the Sinclair International "Precision Reloading and Shooting Handbook" and Precision Shooting's "Precision Shooting Reloading...

Try this site for good BC estimator, jacketed and cast bullets. - Lew http://www.uslink.net/~tom1/calcbc/calcbc.htm