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41magnum, 265 grain with the slovenian mould
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Pretty but the diameter looks a tad small for a real handgun.
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Pretty but the diameter looks a tad small for a real handgun. sooner or later i am going to chrony some of those through some marlin levers. I have a 45colt lever but have never chron'd a load through it. I think it is comparable at least to a 38.55 in reality or maybe more.
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Ooh, red white and blue, and ... army green?
Mixing colors gets interesting too, just for fun. Certain combinations don't bind to each other as well so the coating can be weak, but if they're all the same brand it can have some neat results.
The most unexpected result I got was from mixing some bright red (like yours) with some bright green, kind of a Kawasaki green or zombie green - it made a mottled olive drab, but looking real close you could still see the separate green and red.
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i have consistently gotten a velocity increase of 110-170 fps with powder coating. .30, .452, 454, .458, .41,.44, .357. are the cals i coat. i use white for powder puff loads, yellow for mid range and red for lull power loads. makes it easy on an old phart to get the right load for the use. i have also gained accuracy in the 458's and the and the 454's in the heavier weights.
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Color coding for different loads is a good idea; I do the same. I use blue for subsonic loads and green for the full power stuff. It sure makes it easy to pick up a mag and know which loads are in it.
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I have done the same with my 45 Colt loads while working up my loads.
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Did my first batch for the Mosin. Haven't shot them yet, but the batch I did for the 357 shot well...
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Lookin good.
Just FYI, those aluminum gas checks are fine in bolt actions, but don't work as well in gas operated rifles; the aluminum checks are gas cut more easily than copper as they pass the gas port. You won't notice anything in the bore, but it makes accuracy pretty poor when that happens.
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the mosin, i have never accumulated enough reloadable brass to do those. I did buy a lot of the milsurp when it was relatively cheap. And some of the rifles, when they were 50bucks a piece or so. There were some real nice ones that came in from georgia, that were refurbished at one time and set aside. I have a feeling those cast bullets will probably shoot better than the mil surp.
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I am about to coat a couple hundred for one of my nephews mosin.
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I like them also, Ronnie
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No more greasy fingers! I went so far as to remove the lube from a few hundred an PC them. Ronnie
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I see speckles on a few of those, are you mixing colors or is that how the color is made?
I've tried mixing colors a bit, with some very interesting results. Blue and white can make a sort of "denim" look, and lime green with bright red makes a camo-olive drab that's really interesting to look at. Unfortunately mixing usually results in lower performance of the coating though, especially if they are different brands.
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No more greasy fingers! I went so far as to remove the lube from a few hundred an PC them. Ronnie the good Lord knows i didn't need to read that having the same idea run through my mine more than once recently. Pretty good looking bullets. those slovenian molds are something aren't they? the 265 deep hollow point would swallow something. I have got to throw them at some water jugs.
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i particularly like the brown one, and the one that looks like our wash pans with the speckle in them.
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Rather than retype all this again here is a link to where I posted the colors on singleactions, http://singleactions.proboards.com/thread/16911/wheel-weightsThe speckled ones are from switching colors and not cleaning out the tumbler completely. All the powder is from powder by the pound. Ronnie
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Rather than retype all this again here is a link to where I posted the colors on singleactions, http://singleactions.proboards.com/thread/16911/wheel-weightsThe speckled ones are from switching colors and not cleaning out the tumbler completely. All the powder is from powder by the pound. Ronnie
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