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I've had my forster press for a few years now and had never noticed a screw, which I'll refer to here as a "securing screw", that is located on my Forster press, within the head, to the operator's left. You can see the screw just to the left of my micrometer seating die in this photo: That...

I have been posting about my Pedersoli Sharps replica .45-70 rifle’s accuracy which has hit a wall, despite repeated improvement efforts with 500g class bullets when fired at my 150 meters = 164 yards testing distance. The 150 meter testing range is NOT my ultimate planned target range. I want...

Why powder coating my .45-70 cast bullets might not ever make precise long distance ammunition I have been struggling with limited success trying to develop a (smokeless) load for my Pedersoli .45-70 caliber Sharps replica rifle using powder coated bullets. The best 5-shot groups I have been...

At my last range session with my Pedersoli 45-70 buffalo rifle with its Leatherwood Hi-Lux Malcolm type full barell length scope, I realized that I was needing to hunch forward some distance, beyond what I would call the "natural" head position, to see the image in the scope with minimized black...

1. At how high a muzzle velocity can you launch a powder coated cast bullet (following load tables of course)? 2. What BHN is needed, or optimal, with the high velocity? I am asking these questions because in an effort to improve trajectory, to delay transonic effects, and to improve bullet...

1. Have any of you had good accuracy results using a 405g cast lead bullet at long ranges. More specifically: - 0.5 to 0.75 MOA level accuracy - Up to 600 yards ranges - Using SMOKELESS powder - Target shooting only (not hunting), so no expansion needed - Using a 405g flat base, NOT hollow...

I have seen charts like this one: which seem to say that if I cast bullets that have a target BHN = 20, they might take up to about a week to get to full hardness. But, if I in the meantime powder coat them by heating at 450F for a couple of minutes to melt the powder, and then at 400F for 20...

Any of you shooters who use a Labradar for velocity measurment at both the muzzle AND downrange at different distances: Is it normal for the standard deviation in the downrange velocities to INCREASE with distance from the muzzle? I am asking because with my Cowboy Action 357 Magnum rifle and...

Since when can the Labradar work with either an iPad or phone?? I am asking because (a) I have a Labradar, and there is no mention of iPad or phone display, and (b) I just checked the Labrdar website and it does not mention any new iPad or phone connectivity. Did I misunderstand what you meant...

I had great accuracy with a specific Lee bullet mold and a Lead alloy with BHN = 10, in my Pedersoli Sharps .45-70 replica, shooting a 485g bullet when shooting at 100 yards. But, that bullet design became unstable enough by 150 meters = 164 yards that it would not group at all. With the new...

I was given abouy 50 lb of pure Lead some time ago, and needed a way to make a Lead alloy that would have a BHN = about 12, for use in my Pedersoli Sharps replica. A few weeks ago, someone here on the forum suggested I try using Rotometals "Super Hard" as an alloying ingredient. Super Hard is a...

I am posting this in case it might help anyone who is trying to make a relatively soft cast lead bullet work at more than just low velocities and pressures. I am currently successfully testing the following: - a 499g cast lead 45-70 bullet sized to .4595" (actual digital micrometer reading...

Ok, so I finally have a good 500g 45-70 bullet mold that can produce way better 5-shot groups than the 2 earlier molds I tried! I am shooting groups at 150 meters = 164 yards, where 1 MOA = 1.72 inches, and my better groups are that small or smaller, which is good when shooting a home-cast 500g...

I have close to 50 lb of pure Lead. It is too soft to use as is in a cast 500g bullet load for my Pedersoli Sharps replica. I want to alloy it somehow to get to a BHN =10 hardness level for the pressures I will shoot with it. I am able to buy some alloying metals from a metal supplier 150 miles...

Many of you know that I have been struggling to get a 485g bullet cast from a now-discontinued Lee mold to group at any range past 100 yards, with no sucess. I recently had an opportunity to buy a newer design Lee mold that purs a .459" 500g bullet that looks remarkably simialr to the older...

My buddy told me recently that the range to which the Labradar can track a bullet's velocity varies notably with the size and shape of the bullet. He said that shooting the big fat 485g 45-70 bullet (that I have been trying to find a good handload for and have failed), I MIGHT find that I can...

In other threads, I have mentioned that I was given maybe 80 to 100 lb of really old wheelweights (hereafter referred to as "WWs" to save typing) - the supposedly "good" ones from over 30 years ago, before WW makers started using a lot of Zinc which makes modern WWs pretty much unusable. But...

Yesterday's range session was frustrating overall, as it failed to identify a handload that shoots well beyond 100 yards using the 485g Lee mold bullet that has a very narrow sharply pointed ogive. But I learned a LOT, AND I finally got the bullet to group at 150 meters = 163 yards, although the...

I am examining and cleaning up the remainder of both the 30 year old wheel weights and the Lead ingot I was recently given. A few of the lead ingot have a sloght yellowy tint on only a portion of the bottom of the ingot. What might be causing that? Is there any alloying agent that can appear...

I just changed over to a new bullet mold for casting: The Lyman #457125, which is a 500g bullet for use in .45-70 Sharps replica rifles like my Pedersoli rifle. The COAL spec, per Lyman itself in the Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook, is 2.835". I loaded 4 test cartridges to that exact dimension. They...