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I live in Charleston. I feel your pain. Finally, after many years of trying, solved the problem via Corrosion-X. This stuff really works well. My safe is now in my garage which has no hvac at all and 50' from a salt water creek and 100' from the matsh. I also have a home made "goldenrod" in...

"As long as you don't boil it on a hotplate and breathe in the fumes, you'll be okay." Been there, done that. Nearly killed my 'stay at home' Mom who spent a couple of weeks in the hospital, while I spent 72 hours in bed throwing up every half hour. Ruined that deer skin rug beside the bed...

I have used the FCD for all my reloading of 5 pistol calibers and 3 rifle calibers and I am pleased with the results for the last 15 or so years. The die is adjustable to get as much crimp as desired. If you are concerned, use it just to knock down the case flare. I've never experienced any...

It just so happened today that I saw one of these. A little search of today's email...

My hearing is already pretty well shot so I try to be as protected as I can. I use Walker electronic muffs over foam earplugs. I used to use the Harbor freight electronics but they only have a mike on one side of the head so you lose the stereo effect. As for the desirability of hearing the...

Another e-mail sent. I've been wanting to try this. Thanks for the kind offer. Duncan in SC.

I've got one made in '69 that I purchased for $300 maybe 10 years ago. It was a great shooter to go along with my 44 Super Red Hawk. However, shooting some 300 gn hunting loads while prepping to go on a heavy woods deer hunt, I broke a tip of aluminum off the housing that holds the reloading...

Thanks for the replies. I did a bit of Googling today and found out about the similarity with Speer GD HPs. I will be using the Gold Dot loads to work up my loads.

Try some different loads for the Extreme plated. When I went up in power, my accuracy went quite a bit better.

I purchased a box of Berry's 185gn 45 ACP Hybrid HPs(Beta) a while back as they were touted to be worthy of being usable for self defense. They supposedly will do a good job of expanding vs their other HPs that are for target use only. I will have a bit of me-time coming up and want to check...

Not a full "rest" but I have a basic design for a rear support tripod that I'm working on right now. My techno-critter son has built a 3D printer from a kit and is cranking out a lot of things from toys for his baby to gadgets for inventors, and even a couple of caliber specific loading blocks...

Here it goes again, another seemingly stupid/senseless shooting. Since I live here in Charleston SC, I'll bring it up. "Police identify gunman who killed nine in South Carolina church attack" http://news.yahoo.com/shooting-erupts-church-charleston-south-carolina-021744448.html I guess I...

I have bought a mixed batch of 9mm bullets, and advertised that way, for real cheap. It was supposed to be 2 different weights, if I remember right, 115 and 124 gn. (turned out to be 3 different ones). It is easy to tell the difference when done correctly. Pour them all in a cookie sheet that...

W.E.G. - Thanks for the info there. I took nearly 20 minutes trying to digest it all. I know what Quickload is but I've not seen any kind of screen shot to see the info that is provided. Pretty neat. I realize that 2460 is not the ideal powder here but you seem to infer that my load would...

vongh, I initially weighed out a dozen+ bullets when I received them in 2012 as I do with any purchases of bullets of any caliber and I found very little variance in weight (less than .5 gr), though just prior to laddering up, I didn't check what I loaded. I will do that tomorrow with another...