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  1. How to KILL Disable a Primer

    What's the big deal if the primer is live -- especially if you're talking about a huge 12 gauge case with a lot of volume in there? You don't think a primer could push a 12 gauge slug out of the barrel do you? Alternative idea: spray the primers with WD-40 which has a reputation for killing...

  2. How to KILL Disable a Primer

    I wouldn't trust a liquid or solvent to do it. Not if it's important (is it? Really?) What about putting the primer in the case, heating it over a stove until the primer pops? Then polish it so it looks all new and shiny and has a good-looking primer in it w/o dents (no firing pin strikes)?

  3. How many primers do you have on-hand

  4. Help identifying powder

    If I were still a reloader like I was 25 years ago, I would make some .38 special loads with that stuff and fire them through a 357 magnum revolver. Starting very weak, as if it were Bullseye, and working my way up.
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    What have you been doing at the bench today?

    Loaded 50 rounds of .308, fairly light loads intended for only 100 to 200 yard paper punching with an M1A. These rounds feature 40.5 grains of Varget behind a ballistic-tip 150 grain bullet. Many of the once or twice-fired cases needed to be trimmed. Many were 2.035 inches before trimming, and...
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    On the cheap.. Lee Loader 38sp 357mag . Have you used one?

    Ditto. Started w/ a Lee loader for 38 special and I think 9 mm, but when I wanted to load other calibers including rifle calibers I got an RCBS rock chucker press and some dies. It's OK to do while you're watching television -- if you have a TV near a workbench or you can do some pounding...

  7. 38 special blanks

    A primer alone is nowhere near the noise of a proper factory-made blank cartridge. A primer would be like using a cap pistol you could buy at a toy store for $9 with caps costing less than a penny apiece. Real blank cartridges sound almost as loud as a live round w/projectile.

  8. 38 special blanks

    I have half a dozen loose Winchester .38 spl. blank rounds left. My dad bought a box of them new back in the 1970's. Though I'm not sure why-- maybe just for signaling, like if he were out in the woods and his buddy was supposed to pick him up at a certain time and place, but my dad had trouble...

  9. Buying Reloaded Ammo?

    I have never bought ($$) reloaded ammo, but I've been given some along with guns that I've purchased, also got reloaded ammo from the estates of friends and relatives that have passed away. I shot at all -- or tried to. Although there is some 223 soft point ammo that is a little tight in...

  10. Developing/reloading a round

    Shabura, suppose you find a particular load that's better than all others, by a noticeable margin. Will you load those things yourself, on your own reloading press, or will you still want to find a custom ammo supplier with an FFL to manufacture a lot of this ammo for you (hundreds of the rounds...

  11. Developing/reloading a round

    Wow, Twitch, that's just what the Doctor ordered for somebody who doesn't reload right now or just doesn't have the time to do a lot of experimenting (or money to buy several kinds of powder and several packs of bullets that come with 50 or 100 projectiles per pack). and wants to know what they...

  12. Anyone tried .357 180 gr in the 35 Remington?

    Does anybody know what the actual diameter is for standard factory made .357 magnum pistol bullet-- JACKETED? I know in all lead bullets you can order them size .357" or .358"-- both are common. But how about with a copper jacket? If those copper-jacketed pistol bullets are truly .357 of an...

  13. Anyone tried .357 180 gr in the 35 Remington?

    I once loaded some cheap 38 special rounds, back when I was a handloader, using 125 gr. round-nose all-lead bullets that were sized .356" This is slightly undersized for what a .38 /.357 revolver should use. Nonetheless, accuracy was good as long as my velocities were modest. Only when I...

  14. What’s everyone doing about primers?

    Primers? Ha, we doan need no steen-king primers! I use these cheap substitutes I pick up from Lionel Playworld.
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    Fantastic bullet puller

    My bullet puller is a step up from your vice-grip pliers. Mine's easier because it gives me more leverage. But we both have that "bullet is flat on two sides now" thing going on....
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    Have not seen a hull like this since the 1960's

    Yeah, I've never seen a 20 gauge shell in any color other than yellow.

  17. Safety Question

    I've had a few hang-fires in my life. Normally only one second, or a fraction thereof, between the click and the bang. Had a 35-year old Remington .22LR standard velocity target round do that for me yesterday-- I heard the click and about 0.2 second later, the round fired. It was a flyer on the...

  18. Noob question .300 BO

    FWIW, I've read that a bullet will make more noise going through the air when it's close to Mach 1, even if it never actually "breaks the sound barrier." So if ultra-quiet is your goal, you may want to keep your velocity only Mach .93 instead of Mach 0.99. I can't confirm that from...

  19. 30.06 for M1 Garand? Easy to Reload?

    WARNING: M1 Garands have a very long operating rod which can be bent or broken if the ammunition is either --just too powerful, or --has too sharp of a pressure curve ( in other words the pressure spikes too abruptly early in the firing cycle.) Some commercial hunting loads that work fine...

  20. Where or how to dispose of live ammo

    Recreate an episode of that famous YouTube channel "Will it Blend?"
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