Recent content by LightningMan

If someone come up with a way to convert available rifle powder into pistol powder. That person could make a fortune. Me not being a powder expert, my guess is it can't be done, because I think would have done it already. LM

Hello all, everyone knows how hard pistol powder is to find, and if your like me you are using what powders you can find. Anyway, I am about to load up some .45 acp rounds using some Missouri cast bullets and also some Berry's plated. Lets start with the cast bullets, as they are 230 gr. RN but...

I reload for it, but I can usually find it laying around our gun clubs range, so I don't have a real need for it. Not that I wouldn't take them, but you might want to try the FiveseveN forum, as there shouldn't be a problem finding a buyer for them. I myself am sitting on some bullets for .25acp...

A week ago I was passing through, Cherokee IA. I stopped in a place called Fire&Ice Firearms and they had 2 or 3 cans of Blue Dot. I didn't buy any, as I don't really have a use for it. LM

I like W231 also, but can't find it anywhere, along with AA#5 or AA#2. I've been using RamShot ZIP lately and have had good results. It meters well and fairly clean burning, if you can find it, that may be an alturnative. My next powder to try when I run out of ZIP is WIN AutoComp, as I've heard...

Hello all, As everyone has noticed, powder has been scarce, at least certain kinds anyway. I'm gathering what ever powder I can find for my 7.62x51mm or .308win, as long as there is data available, so anyone use RamShot TAC in that caliber? If so how do you like/dislike it, as compared to your...

Just wondering, It's like what calibers do you shoot but don't reload for that round. At one point I had a .32acp & a .25acp pistol but never reloaded for either. Currently, everything I shoot (besides any rimfire) I do reload for, thats probably why I sold those two pistols as I didn't want to...

(7000+.45acp), (9,000+.40S&W), (14,000+9mm), (3000+.38special), (3500+5.7x28mm), (3000+.380acp), (500+.308win) and its all loaded ammunition, as I don't usually leave empty brass lay around for long. LM

Just today, I went to Wally world at 7:00 am (they put the ammo out at around 7:15) They had Federal bulk boxes 525 rds. for $20.97 per box with a 3 box limit. I got my 3 boxes, of the 20 they got in, but they also had some Remington 225rd boxes for $11.97 per box, so if you weren't lucky enough...

I.m not looking for 5000 as a few hundred would make me happy, but I haven't seen any ZERO! NADA! at my LGS in a long time. I would like to know where they have gone, as I can get Hornady or Winchester JHP bullets in 9mm & .45, but no .40's. Can't figure that one out. LM

[/b] Yes to that, as I have shot some pretty stout loads in mine, but if you bought the NM Vaquaro in a .45 Colt you should only shoot standard pressure loads, so don't hot rod it like the older larger framed Ruger Blackhawks & Vaquaro's, because those guns were also made in .44 magnums. Which...

Wally-World had some Federal 550 rd. boxes for around $25 with a 3 box limit. They didn't last a half hour, as they only got one case of 10 boxes that day. BTW I picked up some Wolf Match at my LGS this past weekend for $65 a 500 rd brick, but Wolf has always been high priced even before the...

I want to say there are two types of bulk Remington ammo, Thunderbolts & Golden Bullets. I have had good luck out of my Smith M&P .22 using Golden Bullets, not so with ThunderBolts. LM

Last I heard Ruger has stopped taking new orders, to get caught up on their back orders. LM

Its funny you mention Remington bulk .22 LR ammo, as I have up untill last March been using CCI Blazer or Federal plated bulk paks of rimfire ammo. That was till I bought a S&W M&P22 pistol, which I have had problems with Federal's cycling (FTF/FTE, it seems underpowered) and a terrible leading...