Recent content by Lost Sheep

I agree with the previously expressed thoughts about experience level of people who do not own their own gear. Simple is better. When teaching a new reloader/handloader, I start them out with a bowl of powder, powder scoops, balance beam scale and a powder trickler; such gear demands the...

I am late to the party. Sorry. No one has suggested taking a chamber cast? https://kurtthegunsmith.com/how-to-make-a-chamber-cast-using-cerrosafe/

I believe Lee Precision will custom-make reloading dies that will size your brass to your specifications. I don't know if they will do carbide, though. You might give them a call. Maybe other die makers would do the same. This would solve the over-working mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

Correction to post #20 (I could not edit.) I meant "MOUSE-FART" loads. Also, one must take great caution not to go so slow that a bullet might not make it out to the end of the muzzle.

I do not recall the charge or velocities, but my friend and I would load 500 S&W down to where, if you looked closely, you could see the bullets fly downrange. (Trail Boss and Unique powders for the low-end loads.) He called them "couse-fart" loads. I don't know what that said about his...

OH NO! :eek: Please don't bring in THAT controversy (as off-topic as the "revolver-pistol-'revolving pistol' " argument") of "magazine vs clip". I have a couple of revolvers that take moon clips but most of my handguns (those ones with a slide) do take magazines up their bottoms. I do not...

I have a related question. Are you concerned about the "crud ring" that commonly develops in the chambers just beyond the .38 Special brass? I don't worry about it because, while I shoot .357 brass exclusively in my .357s, I most often shoot at power/pressure/velocity/recoil levels of .38...

Mikld, Thanks for the acknowledgement and appreciation of my earlier answer, "Because". I feel compelled to point out that some of the answers in the Leverguns forum echo (and expand upon) my other (admittedly theoretical) answers, particularly the one touching on the degree of bottlenecking...

I think I have an idea of what mikld wants. An explanation of the interior ballistics of bottlenecked (true bottlenecked, where the body of the cartridge is significantly larger in diameter than the neck and therefore greater in volume than the tapered or slightly necked cartridges of the black...

Perhaps I don't understand your question. Or, "What do you think would constitute a 'factual answer'?" Why what? answer: Because Why not to do it? We do not have data from a ballistics lab which demonstrates it is safe. or, more simply, I don't know what will happen when I do and the risk is...

If I offended you, I beg your forgiveness. I meant no attack. My point was that silence on the subject is no recommendation for or against. But conservatism is the pursuit of safety is prudent. I know little of your loading style and would not comment on it for that reason. I know you to...

What weight do you give to the ABSENCE of load data? The presence of (authoritatively sourced) load data for any given powder/bullet/chambering combination indicates that a lab has vetted the combination. The absence of certain combinations may indicate it is unsafe, inadvisable, unsuitably...

You are not alone. The three most common things to say about how to break the square ratchet is to move the turret manually 1) when the indexing arm is on the twisted part of the indexing rod, 2) when the ram is at either end of a stroke or 3) in the opposite direction of its normal rotation...

Randy, I beg your pardon, that is not the way to avoid breaking the square ratchet when counter-rotating the turret disk. The Square ratchet engages notches inside the indexing arm. The only time the square ratched can be broken is when it is engaged with those notches. (and the disk is...

If you don't rotate the turret backwards, the ratchet takes no stress. Unfortunately, it is easy to counter-rotate. Even just a little could be problematic. I can state without fear of contradiction that the Lee Classic Turret is the best 4-station auto-indexing press in current production...