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A little known factoid is that both the Mustang and Camaro have Chevy engines. Prior to the Mustang 289, Chevy was developing that engine. Chevy managemnt felt they had too many small block engines which required different toolings to manufacture, as a cost saving measure, they dumped the 289 and it's engineer. The engineer went to Ford and the 289 went with him. The rest is history. From an engine performance standpoint, it may have been...

should i be embarrassed that i paid $51 for 1k wlp, winchester large pistol, magnum. the owner of the range has been getting lots of requests from guys that shoot competitions(lots at my range) that would pay any price for them. and they will be gone fast, the owner thinks wed. the range owner got 45k pistol primers, he paid $50 per 1k, so he is loosing the gas from the drive to pick them up. i was down to a few hundred large pistol primers,...

Bigoledude Yeah Katrina made a mess down there, I know, I was in Jefferson Parish. A couple of years later Gustav kicked a little butt here. Glad you're back in "Da Parish". Didier's is long gone, but the poule deau are still paying visits to False River. We're covered up in hogs here too. I been working up some loads for pistol and rifle using them as test subjects. Got 4 this morning using a 30/30. 28 grains...

Well.....to muddy the waters even more....I'd pick the Lotus Elise.

Hard to tell what the variation is now? 3 shots is not statistically significant. The first load could still have more variation than the first, but three shots just randomly didn't happen to show it. Harder crimps will tend to improve it. Some find that seating primers extra firmly improves consistency, though that is most likely just a way of insuring no inadequately seated primers are present. Higher charge cut into it, too, but if you...

On jacketed bullets you usually don't see the mark, if you apply the force carefully, don't overdo it. On plated bullets you will usually end up with a visible mark, that does not affect their function. These pullers are great, EXCEPT... on some cone shaped bullets, which do not have enough cylinder part to get a good grab. For those you still need the hammer.

I did pattern that .45 Colt loading. The pattern was 87%; Picture in the other thread. Pete

I've used a lot of H335, which burns at about the same rate as 2230. Best group I ever shot with my original Bushy shorty was with 335 and Berger bullets. Still don't see how any of this "personal experience" information is going to help the OP much. Nothing beats working up your own loads for the particular rifle you're shooting. The load books give you as much usable information as any of us could possibly...

Quote: What's with that dumbass rap crap sound track? i have a diverse music taste to an extent i put something together with a bit of fun music synching in it Quote: Interesting, but does it mar the bullets? i pulled 120 bullets or so, hardly any of them had marks on them that i could tell, though they are jacketd bullets, maybe if you squeeze them too hard with the collet

I'm telling ya Snuffy is absolutely right! Bought the Hornady Cam-Lock and used it on piston rounds! Also as stated here don't shoot the rounds, unload them.