tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post3608333927272990756..comments2024-03-28T02:11:54.900+10:00Comments on GUN WATCH: Reloading in Restricted Circumstancesjonjayrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363092874281160320noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post-45398646130111038382021-07-17T00:56:43.811+10:002021-07-17T00:56:43.811+10:00Thank you share your blog,Bulk ammunition in USA T...Thank you share your blog,<a href="https://bulkammunitionstore.com/" rel="nofollow">Bulk ammunition in USA</a> To get answers, I arrived at multiple manufacturers of well-known ammunition and AR-15 to create a view that covers all cheap shots, from components and assembly to packaging and use. Although I have used such charges throughout my life, I still learned a lot from my findings. You will also.Show Timehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05947221906002025557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post-60389184089058334892016-04-01T03:57:23.025+10:002016-04-01T03:57:23.025+10:00Good one dean!
Further to our phone conversation t...Good one dean!<br />Further to our phone conversation the other week, I would like to thank you for this useful article. <br />Hope to keep in touch. <br />Keep up the good work. <br />God bless. Shooterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673476632401654782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post-71720611246292148872016-02-25T18:30:13.110+10:002016-02-25T18:30:13.110+10:00You can solve that problem with soldering flux.You can solve that problem with soldering flux.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post-61106787538301950792016-02-19T09:25:25.516+10:002016-02-19T09:25:25.516+10:00Read the Speer number nine reloading manual on bul...Read the Speer number nine reloading manual on bullet alloys.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post-11199064668905969502016-02-19T02:16:06.957+10:002016-02-19T02:16:06.957+10:00Zinc causes lead to curdle and will completely mes...Zinc causes lead to curdle and will completely mess up a batch of casting lead. The only solution I know is to dilute the zinc contaminated batch with good lead until the zinc fails below a certain critical concentration and it becomes castable again. You can avoid contamination if you keep your lead pot just slightly above the melting point of lead. Zinc melts at a significantly higher temperature so the zinc wheel weights will float on top with the other dross. Skim them off with the dross and scrap them. Running your lead pot too hot will get you into trouble if it causes the zinc wheel weights to melt and mix with the lead.<br /><br />I avoid this problem by using mostly range scrap. I buy inexpensive pewter at thrift stores to adjust my melt (love the personalized christmas ornaments which no one ever wants and bent up pewter bowls/plates).<br /><br />MarshallMarshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04690226959964036452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post-63353121909903810782016-02-18T23:53:35.259+10:002016-02-18T23:53:35.259+10:00Richard Lee, in Modern Reloading, second edition, ...Richard Lee, in Modern Reloading, second edition, writes of the problems of zinc in lead casting. Do not use zinc, or attempt to alloy zinc with lead. <br /><br />I have used wheel weights to cast many thousands of bullets. They work well. But you must be careful not to include the occasional zinc wheel weight. Zinc wheel weights look different from lead. They are shiny, while lead is dull grey.<br /><br />Wheel weights and zinc are considered on pages 162-166.<br /><br />Here is a link on how to spot zinc wheel weights to keep them out of the casting pot.<br /><br />http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?40765-Zinc-Wheelweights<br /><br />Dean Weingartenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07026716292548440054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post-9695765424780391942016-02-18T15:54:40.599+10:002016-02-18T15:54:40.599+10:00Thanks for the information. I would like to add a ...Thanks for the information. I would like to add a little information to this. I have been reloading since 1978. I load for Rifle, pistol and shot gun and have a couple of black powder weapons. I do a lot of casting, I have two ten pound pots. Wheel weights are mostly zinc and zinc is too hard for most barrels and will strip the riffling's out. When using wheels weights be sure to add some pure lead. about two or three to one lead to zinc. the best material to cast with is the same alloy that linotype machines use for making news print presses. It has some antimony in it to make the bullets shine like silver and the mix of lead to zinc is very good. I consider the bullets soft enough if I can make a good mark in the bullet with my thumb nail. if you can not make a mark on the bullet with your thumb nail it is too hard for the barrel in most modern guns. Black powder guns should always use pure lead bullets. You can use black power or Pyrodex in most modern guns but not the other way around. Smokeless powder will blow up a black powder gun. It seems strange to me but this is true. black powder burns so fast that is does not have a burning rate they just consider it explodes. smokeless powder has a burning rate thus the various different numbers and letter designations. Like H-110, Unique, 2400, 4756 and so on. also keep in mind that static electricity will cause Black powder to explode. but static does not bother Pyrodex or smokeless powders. also never mix powders. you have no idea of what the mix will do to the burning rates and pressures developed. When I had my gun shop I taught people to reload and sold them the equipment and supplies. I was trained to reload by the owners of the RCBS reloading equipment company.<br /><br />I used to have a friend that was the manager of the press room of the local news paper and he would sell me scrap linotype alloy. I have not seen a well stocked gun store with reloading supplies since I closed my store. I'm retired. I would really like to find a well stocked store. I shop in Yuma and I have not found any stores there that I would call well stocked. I have to laugh at what some think is well stocked. In my store I had at least three cans of every powder available. a good selection of bullets in all most all calibers. Gas checks, Primers, and a very good selection of reloading tools and parts. Dies, molds, top punches, seizer dies, ingot molds, melting pots, presses, case trimmers and collets, charge bars and just bout anything else you might need. I delivered a ton of reclaim shot to one customer and I had a good selection of ammunition calibers and new brass. If it had to do with reloading and fire arms I had it and even did special orders for antique arms collectors. <br /><br />I had a customer come in once that told me he had cleaned his rifle a couple weeks earlier and when he needed it, it would not fire. I had to make a firing pin for a Winchester 25-35. he lost the firing pin when he cleaned it. I had to make a floating firing pin for a revolver.<br /><br />A guy sold me a 12 ga. bolt action for 10 dollars. after I refinished it he wanted to buy it back for 150.00. I still have it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com