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    Powder coating - A list of good and bad powders

    Did you all get some powder that just will not work, or stick? I got Eastwood Hotcoat Lime green that works great. Grape would not stick. Don't know if its the powder, they got moisture in it. I am on cast boolits, I just don't post over there much. Might ask there, or search. I have had zero...
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    Powder coating - A list of good and bad powders

    Does anyone maintain a list of powders that work for shake and bake coatings? I pretty much only try to coat bullets when it is 40% humidity or less in the house. I have Orient Red from powder by the pound and that works. Eastwood Hotcoat Lime Green and that works great. I bought Hotcoat...
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    Lyman brass dryer

    I got an old Wesco dehydrator that I upgraded to a Meat one for jerky and still don't use it like this. The pins get "washed" every time I wash some cases. Little soap and a little lemon powder. Fluffed on a drying towel and laid on another get the water spots off the cases. That the worst...
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    Lyman brass dryer

    I just roll them around on a towel and dump them on a towel in the family basement floor to air dry. Works great with wood stove or air conditioning running. I would use the linked hydrator and not use it for food also. Also, y'all dry your pins also? I leave the lid off my tumbler and let them...
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    Mtm Table “quiver”

    I have been thinking about something like this also. I could make a table top like this. Make with with plywood and weld 1 1/2" EMT conduit to plates to attach to the table and use 1 1/4" EMT to slide into that and be the legs. I have been using fold up tables and lead sled or not, you just move...
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    9mm target load

    147 grain cast on top of 3.6 grains of N320. Round nose for Targets and HP for load up mags.
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    Shooting pure lead powder coated

    I have a supply on the shelf running out, but I plan on mixing the first one when I can get some tin. I saved the below info and made a Excel sheet calculator to do the math. 91% pure lead, 9% tin leaves you with 10.5 bhn and water quenched maybe 14 or better. (to make 20# use 18.2# of lead and...
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    Shooting pure lead powder coated

    In a higher hardness maybe, but pure lead no. I have powder coated pure lead 155 grain 9mm bullets and they expand great, but are flyer past 10 yards and rifle would be worse. Maybe water quenched WW lead and a 1:12 twist barrel and smaller bullets like 55 grains. I have seen people doing that...
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    What Got You Into Reloading?

    2020 - 2021 ammo shortages and I started reloading and casting.
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    Win Deer Season XP - thoughts and initial performance

    Nice deer you got there. FWIW, do you butcher yourself or drop them off to some one? I self butcher and stopped using any bullet that uses "rapid expansion" in its selling lines. I have thrown away a lot of meat where they got into the shoulders. Quartering away in the far shoulder and...
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    I Saved Some of my Rabbits

    Yeah, rabbits don't stand a chance any more. Hawks have rebounded heavily in 20 - 30 years. People don't trap foxes like they used too. Early winter we have plenty, then spring time I wonder if any are left to repopulate, but they do. I tried planting hazel hunt trees for the deer herd. Put in...
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    Shooting target frame - Stainless

    I bough this frame on Amazon. I had some point to use and thought I'd give it a try. I use 1x2 for paper targets and 2x4 if I want to hang a gong. If someone shoots the wood too much, it is easily replaced. the 2x4 just get shredded lead embedded in it. I cut card board from Amazon big boxes to...
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    Fox Squirrels

    We have a mix of half of each. Greys are half the size of fox squirrels and skittish as all get out. I've been out deer hunting and fox squirrels will sit on the next tree and try and figure out what I am. I've had a couple come up the tree behind me and smell me to see what I am. Just about...
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    2023 Hunting Picture Thread

    Went out shopping for does last weekend and this guy came by posing This is extremely low fat for an eastern deer. He was still rut crazed. The tarsal glands stinked pretty good and his back legs were all pizzed on.
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    sellier and bellot 30-06 180 grain hpc

    I watched a YT on a guy from Alaska covering the SST and other non bonded, dramatic expansion, bullets and he was stating he thought they were bad for hunting. He said ballistic superior, but expand and kill best at long range. Short range they explode and disintegrate. Hunting out east most...
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    Powder coated bullets: What max velocity can be run and what BHN required to do it?

    Oh, the barrel was starting to get hard to hold. That was my first ladder shoot and I entirely rushed the entire thing. I learned that patience is a quality needed for that and have since built a barrel cooler. I may even try the cold water some guys do and dry/clean the barrel between steps...
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    Powder coated bullets: What max velocity can be run and what BHN required to do it?

    I just ran a ladder round session this summer for 30.06 with 173 grain bullets. I loaded from 2000 - 2600 fps and they all shot fine and nothing leaded. All rounds were Gas checked and powder coated. Lead was Wheel weight about an 11 bhn and water quenched, then powder coated, shaken and...
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    Loaded a ladder and didnt write it down

    That sucks and I would assume you need to pull them or they are just plinking shots without knowing the load of each shell. I use MTM boxes and make ladder sheets in excel to match. I even print the grain, velocity and X area and cut it out and tape it inside the box lid to match where the...
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    Who goose hunts?

    Here is a 30" circle, Hevi steel B and 40 pellets in the circle, one luck pellet hits the head and no other lethal pellets. This is a failure when patterning your gun and wrong shell, choke or both. Try something else.
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    Who goose hunts?

    I agree, I focus on the check patch and lead and fire. I generally use 3" Kent Faststeel in #1 for all waterfowl. Full choke for geese and modified for ducks. I'll use BB sometimes if I don't expect ducks or they are out of season. You probably missed because you are shooting without leading...
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