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    New Mold in Town

    As an annual gift to myself around tax time I purchase myself a new mold of better quality to replace some of my older Lee molds that I have had for many years. The new mold is a Arsenal 4 cavity 170 gr. .311" Ranch Dog clone that I had cut 50/50 two with gas checks and two plain base bullets...
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    Bullets for the Mosin's

    Finally got a chance to cast up a bunch of bullets to try out in my 91/30 Tula with my new Accurate mold I had cut for it. The bullet is a 215 gr. FN when casting from wheel weights. I decided to PC these with clear gloss and sized them to .314" when I applied the gas check. All I have to do...
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    Cast an PC 45 HP

    I cast up a bunch of 45 ACP HP's form a new NOE mold las week so this morning I spent a couple hours PC,ing them. The humidity was pretty high so I coated them in the house using Shake and Bake and toasted them out on the back deck. I ended up doing a couple hundred of the HP's a couple...
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    Hi Point 45 ACP Carbine Test Load

    Got out for awhile on Sat.and shot some handloads in my Hi Point 45 ACP carbine,I had around 300 of the Lee 200 gr. SWC I cast up from 50/50 and powder coated to work up a load with. I took the original sights off the carbine as I didn't like them very much an replaced it with a Tasco 3 MOA Red...
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    More Powder Coated bullets. "Taste The Rainbow" well sorta.

    Had a nice day out today so me and my friend Andy broke out the powder coater and did a few different cast bullet coating test. This isn't all the different ones we did but all I had time to size and or add a gas check to. From L to R Lee 30 cal. 150 & 170 gr. RNFP sized to .311" checked some...
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    Cast bullets in the SKS

    Cast bullets in My SKS I've been working on some cast bullets loads for my SKS rifles for a couple weeks using the Lee .312 160 gr.tumble lube gas check bullet. I finally settled on 12.5 grs. of Alliant 2400 the MAX load in the 7.62 x 39 case would be 15.0 grs. This load is very accurate in...
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    OCW Optimal Charge Weight Load Development

    I'm always looking for some new loading techniques to improve accuracy and consistency ran across this,may be of interest of some. http://www.clik.to/optimalchargeweight
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    SKS Backyard Reloads Test

    I took my scoped YUGO M59/66 and my Chinese out back today and shot about 20 Rds. of my reloads I put together last night, I shot some five and ten shot groups with each, 50 yds. with the irons on the Chinese and close to 75 yds. with the scoped YUGO. I don't have the greatest scope on the...
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    Handloads For 7.62 x 39mm

    I spent about a day working on a load for my YUGO SKS. Using Winchester cases,trimmed to length with the Lee case length guage & cutter, CCI #34 Mil-Spec primers, AA1680 powder and the Hornady 123Gr. SP seated & crimped right on the cannalure. There is nothing special about this load,It just...
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