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Called RCBS again yesterday, and sent them an e-mail regarding the stuck .223. Explained that out of the thousands of rifle rounds I've loaded, the ONLY stuck cases I've had have been as of very recent--when I decided to give Imperial a try. Here is the response from RCBS-- I know and fully...

I ordered a Lee .358 105 gr SWC mold a little while back. It came in, I prepped it and then started making boolits. Cute little things, and at only 105 grains, you can get a LOT out of just a little lead. Hell, just 8 pounds of lead will net you over 500 of these things. Loaded some up for .38...

Can't believe it. For years and years, I used the Lee lube with zero problems. 'Bout ten years ago, a so-called friend encourages me to try Imperial. Says it's the best. So I buy some. Pretty slick. Easy to clean off the brass. I'm sold. Within a couple of weeks, I get my first ever stuck...

Found a bunch of these at the range a while back. 7.62 in caliber, but I can't recall seeing brass like this. Anyone seen this before? Jeff

Sheesh. . . I'd bought a pound of this a while back on the recommendation of an employee at Accurate--he told me it was pure greatness in both 30-30 and especially .223, for which it was supposedly created. It's dog meat for my 30-30, regardless of bullet, bullet weight and charge...

Whew. Surprisingly, saw a number of really good deals on firearms. As usual, the gougers and rip-offs were also out in force. And as usual, the people P.T. Barnum prophesized about were there with wallets and credit cards in hand. I guess every group has their snakes. So that (all the good...

Lee Pro-IV Casting Furnace from Midsouth, $65 Lee .358 148gr Wadcutter 2-cavity mould from Midsouth, $19 Lee .358 Lube & Size die package from Midsouth, $12 100 pounds of wheelweights given to me by a friend, $0 Several hours on a day off spent casting my own boolits to get this kind of...

No matter which way I load them, these damn things just keep shooting right where you point them. Been playing around with dink loads in 44 Special--5.2 of W231 pushing a 240 SWC. Shot good groups at 50' handheld. Same with the 45 ACP rounds and 4.7 of Bullseye. Anyone who is new to...

Was doing some smelting this afternoon and rummaging through my lead stockpile. I found these two boxes of Taurus 44 bullets my dad gave me a little while back. He doesn't shoot or load 44 anymore and had no use for them. Said he thought he bought them way back in the early '70s not long after...

I'm sure this has been cussed to death, but my search-engine skills IQ are about equal to my age. I've taken down my Ruger Mark II on previous occasions. No problem. Putting it back together, the wife and dogs leave town for the day--so bad does my swearing get. There has to be an easier...

My Achilles Heel in reloading has always been, for whatever reason, loading the 30-30 Winchester round. I've got a beautiful Winchester Model 94 that has less than 75 rounds fired through it. I have an older Model 1894 that has who-knows-how-many rounds fired through it. Both guns have iron...

I've been doing this experiment on "To tumble or not to tumble . . ." For the most part and the majority of the time, I do not tumble my loaded ammo. Instead, I make sure my brass is polished and clean before I load it up. But, over the past few years I've been reading about all the ills...

I'd been looking for a new vice to hold my rifles while cleaning/working on them. I'm not a particular fan of plastic, and especially not plastic made in China--which was about all I could find until I got up into the higher dollar vices. They had a lot of stuff I not only didn't need, but...

I was thinking about the discussion over tumbling loaded/reloaded rounds and while I remember doing my "scientific" comparison under strict controlled conditions, there was one thing I had not done. I hadn't tumbled reloads in which I'd used cast bullets. My first thought was that it shouldn't...

It's been almost five years to the week since I last reloaded anything for either of my 30-06 rifles (pre-64 Winchester Model 70 and a Savage 110B), let alone even shot them. Good news/bad news. Bad news is that I was afraid I'd be a bit rusty with both the reloading and the shooting. Good...

A few days ago, I partook in a discussion involving the issue of handloads/reloads and their legal defensibility in the event that they should ever have to be used in an actual self-defense shooting. Another poster mentioned Mas Ayoob's testimony and views in regards to this issue. I stated...

I put in an order two weeks ago. Got invoiced. Still haven't received my order. Called them up. Haven't received my order because it hasn't shipped. Hasn't shipped because they haven't rounded everything up. Wasn't a big order in terms of number of pieces. First problem. Second problem came...

Against my better judgement, I bought two Lee Factory Crimp Dies last night during an unplanned stop into Cabelas. In over twenty-something years of reloading, I've somehow managed to get by quite nicely without ever needing--or wanting--a "factory crimp die." But in all the reading and praise...

Is it me, or does it seem like Midway is out of dang near everything that has to do with reloading? I just got through perusing their site, against my better judgement since it makes my blood pressure jump, and damned if they didn't have "out of stock, backorder ok" on better than eight out of...

Last week a friend of mine from back in "the days" and I were shooting at one of our out-of-the way ranges and heard a major KAFREAKINGBOOM! I wrote a bit about it on the "Help with crimping" thread. Some guy, new to shooting and BRAND NEW to reloading blew up his gun and his hand loading...