Thread: Lee .357sig FCD

quote: Originally posted by dana: The right side of the hole where the bullet impacted actually had part of a nice round bullet hole. . You answered your own question. If youa are getting any round hole in the target, it's not keyholing, jusr the target ripping. Try backing the cheap targets w/ a used one next time.

If you're truly keyholing, that's possible because the bullet is not spinning... which means it's probably not getting the rifling or maybe a crown problem. If that's not happening it can be caused by one or more of the following: leaded bore undersized bullets worn out bore bad crown too hard lead and bullet not obturating not enough powder and bullet not obturating something wierd with bullet being sized down in loading...

I know where they're located, I drove by them :P I have 6-7lb of Berry's media to use up. If you want me to get you some random media from Cabela's on Wednesday let me know. By the time you use it up, I will be ready for the Grainger stuff.

The corcob from Grainger comes in a box that is 26x18x9 with a bag inside. There is enough media to fill 2 5gal pales and maybe more. With this being blast media it is very low on dust. And really cleans fast. If you were in my area we could split mine up. I have enough now to last many many years.

I mix the cc and walnut 50/50 and find it cleans the brass incredibly well with just a little brass polish added. I just cleaned about 60,000 pieces of brass this last weekend and it all came out looking bright and shiny.

quote: Originally posted by Blue68f100: That's because were using AP presses. Which cuts our time to 1/4-1/5 the time over a single stage. Damn right. After cranking out a few hundred rounds during my lunch break on my Dillon 550b, what else am I going to do later?

I finally cancelled my Cabela's orders due to partial shipment and each partial has the "hazmat" fee on top of it, makeing it cost a lot more. They wouldn't hold until they all came in and I don't want to pay 5x$22 for 5 different items from them. Been finding powder and primers locally so no shipping or hazmat fee.

Thanks for confirming about the RP brass - that stuff sizes really nice, and then gets chewed up on the bullet seat if I don't have my belling set way out to "swallow" the bullet. I always thought it was just "soft" brass but being thin I assume that would be the ticket. I usually toss it.

I love it, but then again I got a can free to test out. Since I keep fired cases in ziplocs I just open the bag, hose it while jiggling the bag.

quote: Originally posted by flesheatingvirus: Who is making steel cases that aren't berdan primed? Wolf is one company that I know of, as I own some in 223 cal. My 9mm Wolf has Berdan primers. I reloaded some 1942 45ACP Steel cases by mistake. I had cleaned a large amount of cases, and did not realize that a few steel cases were in with them. They loaded o.k., but I have not fired them.