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Handloaders and Bullet Casters, welcome to my bench! I've started this channel in order to share knowledge with new and seasoned handloaders who are crossing over into cast bullets or learning how to cast. There is a record number of new enthusiest out there and I believe I have the skill and knowledge help provide a strong foundation.
I've got many videos on the way and I believe we can have a great time going over all this information. Feel free to post questions and comments, lets get the conversations rolling! And please... LIKE and SUBSCRIBE!
I've got many videos on the way and I believe we can have a great time going over all this information. Feel free to post questions and comments, lets get the conversations rolling! And please... LIKE and SUBSCRIBE!
Coming Plans and Shout Out!
@M1A2 Abrams tank, This is a shout out to you and a little teaser of what will be coming in the near future with my 7.62x39 Cast Bullet Project. Thanks folks! Like and Subscribe!
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Powder Coating: LeadSmith Makes a Mess! Pt 2
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This is the follow up and final result! How did I do? you be the judge! I'm feelin pretty'ol good about it. Thanks to @cw2a @johnshandloading7907 @leveractiongypsy1848 and @nycreloader. Answer my trivia question and get a shout out and channel promotion! Thank you! Like, Subscribe and Leave me a comment! God Bless!
Powder Coating: LeadSmith Makes a Mess! pt 1
Просмотров 3592 года назад
My first ever attempt at powder coating! I got it all on video. See what I did and why it was a good idea or a bad idea. I fumble once or twice but I think I got a good handle on it. Thanks to @cw2a @johnshandloading7907 @leveractiongypsy1848 and @nycreloader Hope you like it! Also, answer my trivia question and I'll promote your channel and send a shout out!
Shout Out and Introducing Misses LeadSmith!
Просмотров 2012 года назад
Misses LeadSmith answered the trivia question folks! Now she gets her moment of braggadocios Shout Outs! She's a bit camera shy, so I had to get creative with this one. I hope you enjoy, like, subscribe and BUY HER BOOKS!
Lyman Brass-Smith, Shell Holders, Priming Problems VR @357Gaz
Просмотров 6 тыс.2 года назад
This is a follow up to the review that I did on the Lyman Brass-Smith Victory press. One of the points of contention that I had was the priming system and shell holder compatibility. @357 Gaz asked me a question regarding the use of different shell holders. I decided it would be a good idea to go into greater detail of the problem I experienced and why I chose to stick with Lyman Shell Holders.
Mail Call! @CW aka CWlongshot
Просмотров 752 года назад
Our buddy @CW is at it again. This time I get to be on the receiving end of CW awesomeness! Like and Subscribe folks!
My Technique For Measuring with a Dial Caliper V.R. Johnny 1982
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@Johnny-jr2lq @mckwilly This is an effort to answer a question I was asked by Johnny 1982 about the technique I use to make sure I'm getting consistency in my measurements. What's better than measuring a bullet? How about measuring one of those really nice bullets from MCK? Enjoy folks!
Pt.4) 7.62x39 Cast Bullet: Measuring a Rifles Groove Diameter
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Now that we have a good chamber cast and have all the measurements that we need from the breach end of the rifle, lets slug and measure our barrels groove diameter! Also, you'll meet a very pretty girl that doesn't say much. Then, there'll be a trivia question with an opportunity for public recognition and personal endorsement! Like, Subscribe and I'll see you soon!
Mysterious Powder n'stuff Showed Up!
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Help solve the mystery folks! God Bless!
Pt.3) 7.62x39 Cast Bullet: Chamber Cast/Throat Measurement
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We'll use a low temp alloy to make a cast of the rifles chamber. This will allow us to identify various measurements, including the throat diameter. If you choose to do this, please exercise extreme caution. Thank you, like, subscribe and leave me a comment!
Pt 2) 7.62x39 Cast Bullet: Range Time & After Action Review
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Here is where I get my results from working up a cast bullet load in my CZ527 rifle. Join me out on the range and at my bench. We'll go over the velocity numbers and check the barrel for lead fouling. I'll also put a plan together on how to proceed. Thank you! Like, Subscribe and Leave me a comment.
Pt1) 7.62x39 Cast Bullet: Shop Talk
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.2 года назад
I'm bringing a little info about cast bullets in relation to the 7.62x39 before we head down to the range. I'll be mapping out the terrain of cast bullet use in my CZ527 Carbine. It is a great little rifle and certain attention to detail needs to be followed with this "CIP" spec rifle. Thank you! Like and Subscribe!
L.E. Wilson Case Trimmer: A Review (and tutorial)
Просмотров 7 тыс.2 года назад
I am introducing this trimmer(with available options) and giving my personal thoughts on its best use. I also give tips on how to use it efficiently. I've got three cons that I'd like to discuss because I don't think everyone will be able to appreciate this trimmers as much as I do. Enjoy! Like and Subscribe!
Where I've been, Where I'm Going & SHOUT OUTS!
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Where I've been, Where I'm Going & SHOUT OUTS!
Lyman Brass Smith Victory Single Stage Press: A Review
Просмотров 9 тыс.2 года назад
Lyman Brass Smith Victory Single Stage Press: A Review
Status Update: LeadSmith and the Lost Videos!
Просмотров 1642 года назад
Status Update: LeadSmith and the Lost Videos!
The Molon Labe Disciple: Simon the Zealot
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The Molon Labe Disciple: Simon the Zealot
2. How I Set Up My Reloading Presses and Equipment
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2. How I Set Up My Reloading Presses and Equipment
3. Varying Hardness of Wheel Weights bullet casting
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3. Varying Hardness of Wheel Weights bullet casting
2. Sorting Wheel Weights for Bullet Casting
Просмотров 3,7 тыс.2 года назад
2. Sorting Wheel Weights for Bullet Casting
1. Cast Bullet Hardness: Measuring with the Lee Hardness Tester
Просмотров 4,5 тыс.2 года назад
1. Cast Bullet Hardness: Measuring with the Lee Hardness Tester
Our Rights as Americans and our Creator who gave them
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Our Rights as Americans and our Creator who gave them
The Lee Factory Crimp Die, Case Wall Thickness and Tolerance Stacking
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The Lee Factory Crimp Die, Case Wall Thickness and Tolerance Stacking
9 Lee Factory Crimp Die vs Cast Lead Handloads Pt 4(Did it swage my bullets?)
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9 Lee Factory Crimp Die vs Cast Lead Handloads Pt 4(Did it swage my bullets?)
5 round capacity for SD??? Consider 5 smooth stones
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5 round capacity for SD??? Consider 5 smooth stones
Ruger 44spl GP100 Review for the cast bullet shooter
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Ruger 44spl GP100 Review for the cast bullet shooter
Why revolver forcing cones experience lead fouling (even when cut properly)
Просмотров 7 тыс.3 года назад
Why revolver forcing cones experience lead fouling (even when cut properly)
Results of Polishing My Forcing Cone!!!!!!!! (finally)
Просмотров 9 тыс.3 года назад
Results of Polishing My Forcing Cone!!!!!!!! (finally)
8. Cast Bullet Path (2 of 2 Groove Diameter and Measurements)
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8. Cast Bullet Path (2 of 2 Groove Diameter and Measurements)
I really like this Lyman reloading gear. I've been using the AA8 turret press and I've been thinking about the Victory press for reloading rifle ammo. It's just solid handloading gear.
@@jimbasler303 i feel the same. My Lyman victory is just a pleasure to work with. Thanks for stopping by!
Great video!!!❤
AFAIK Lyman #2 alloy is BHN 16 which would be much lower than 45k psi. That is the alloy stated in the loading manual at 7:40. So lyman beleives their alloy is capable of higher pressures.
An expensive hardness tester, or the "fingernail" test are not required to determine lead hardness. All you need to do is research pencil testing lead and an inexpensive staedtler pencil set. Write the numbers inside the front cover of the pencil set case and carry on testing.
My priest told me that polishing my forcing cone would result in blindness.
Well... My vision is getting pretty weak. Better listen to your priest 😁
Did you ever try those powder coated bullets? I found you from your bench set up videos great info really appreciate it. 👍
Yes, and they work amazing. BUT... No video ... Yet 😉
I have an sig 220 the forcing cone” the area against the case lip it’s sharp and likes to cut into my powder coat if I seat against it. I don’t like it. I wanna round it off or taper it a bit more I don’t like the extreme sharp edge. I’d like to lap it but it may be nitrided.
I ran into this issue about a mo th ago when i first trying out the priming system on my lyman all american 8 press. I got the exact same results a flush mounted primer. Same as others the set screw on the priming system for the punch kept coming lose and did shoot out on me once almost twice. I noticed to that using the lee shell holders theres alot of slop between the shell and the holder itself on the down stroke when using resizing. Is the lyman shell holder tighter than the lee or just as sloppy?
Is this in .44 Spcl ? ☆
Yes sir!
@@leadsmith5873 When i heard Ruger was coming out with the GP100 chambered in .44 Special i immediately went to Murdock's here in Missoul, Montana and put my order in. Believe i was the 1st or 2nd here to obtain one. Have had a Ruger GP100 in .357 Magnum for decades so know how built Hell for Stout they are. The overwhelming number of rounds i fire from both are lite plinking loads ( wiping smirks off of wiseass waterballoons ) tho i carry full power loads for atv rides in the woods. So appreciate you mentioning your load, the 250 grain ain't nothing to sneeze at. Keep your powder dry... Thank you sir. ☆
One way to avoid lead deposits is to use a coated bullet. The coating is a polymer coating and not a powder coating which wears out the barrel at an alarming rate. I use these polymer bullets and I don’t have any smoke. After Shooting and I come home and check out my gun, the barrel is perfectly clean and shiny, so is the forcing cone. There is some carbon buildup in the throat of the cylinder of a revolver. Before leaving the range, I run a snake through the barrel and the cylinder, which removes any carbon buildup whatsoever. After coming home. I still clean my revolver with Hoppes solevent. It only 20:49 coat them with powder which also results in not getting any lead buildup. One thing I noticed is that my gun shoots better dirty then when it’s clean. Normally I clean my revolver after 300 rounds fired through it and that takes me between 20 & 30 minutes. Lastly if you use hard cast lead bullets you will have far less buildup. Lead is very soft. If you have that much buildup after 50 rounds then your lead is too soft or else your load is too hot. If you want to avoid unessary work then buy hard cast coated bullets. From the amount of shooting that you seem to be doing, it is not worth a cleaning effort after shooting just 50 bullets. You’re only saving a couple pennies. buying coated. Bullets is more profitable and less time consuming and damage to your gun. Hope this helps you. Oh polymer is the BEST coating. Period.
Thanks for painstakingly showing the subtle differences in each brand of shell holder!
Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for stopping by 👍
You need to powder coat and gas check
44 special offers more power at less pressure. I have a Charter 3" with self carved grips, something that most production guns can't match. Single action is no measure of a self defense firearm. Packability, grip, and size are more important.
Joshua
Outstanding work brither where is your chrustian group at or forum?
Clutter? No, that's "good stuff we must keep just in case!" LOL
Indeed my friend! 😁
Ambidextrous.... ambi-dex-truss..... NOT 😃😄ambi-dext-ree-us...😃
Dang southern public school education lol
@leadsmith5873 don it figur... ever thangs spayshul thar Love the review brother. Just could resist.
You can adjust the primer punch upward by simply loosening its set screw and allowing the spring to raise it up a little while keeping your finger over the top to keep it from flying off. It's easier to do this with the whole primer feed system removed from the press. Don't let the punch go too high, thought, or it won't have enough clearance to fit back into the primer feed body.
Compared to my priming your holder looks a little low. But mind wasn't sliding all that well. The LYMAN PRESSES are robust and built well. Lyman holders are nice. d
How about a video of the actual priming a shell process
I'd like to. But due to RUclips policies I have to be very careful. I got in trouble once already 😁 thanks for coming by my friend
Very insightful video, thanks! One aspect I missed was lighting setup for the bench. It would be nice to know if you simply rely on ambiant room light, or if there are specific use cases for additional lighting you might have found.
New Sub for ya . Great video brother. I have several calibers and reload for a long time but I have never had a revolver. I have always wanted a 44mag/Special though as its such a versatile round. I have understood the forcing cone gap for a long time and thought about it a lot as well. This was well explained for any folks new to revolvers.
Thank you my friend! 😊
MC just denoted the type of wheel that the weight will clip on to. Loving this video. Good content.
7.62x39 Soviet! Not rimmed. .312” bore.
WHERE YA BEEN BUDDY???❤
Hey man! Thanks for reaching out! I'm still kicking. Just had to step away and realign my focus. Things are actually going great. I've got some things in mind for coming videos. You guys are great! God bless you all!
@@leadsmith5873 Join us Tonite!!!!
I can’t get it to feed the primers, in my American 8. They come flying out, from the horizontal spring thing.
Yes bullet spring-back does exist and it has a correlation to bullet hardness. Great job!
Thank you my friend!
A soft lead bullet will obfuscate ( the pressure of firing will push the rear of the bullet using friction within the rifling to expand the rear of the bullet to seal on the barrel rifling) when fired from the chamber to the barrel. You don't really need to be tight in the chamber. If an unfired bullet falls at least partially into the forcing cone the force behind it will push the diameter of soft lead outward when fired. I prefer to use an Alox lube over the entire bullet on soft lead instead of a beeswax to deal with leading. I use this method on a marlin 44 lever with microgroove rifling. It tightens up cast bullet groups in a rifle that usually frustrates people.
The ALM designates the clip is made for an aluminum wheel which is thicker
A longer seating ram on the priming arm would fix the shell holder issue.
My Zastava M70 Zpap has a 314 bore as well
I have to ask what load did you settle on? do you have any other thoughts hear a few years later?
The gp has been great! I find it easy to carry when working around the homestead. I still love the caliber specific chambering. 44mag revolvers are great, but the weight tends to be excessive for standard pressure specials. As far as loads, it's hard to beat Bullseye for light loads with a Keith style swc. Red Dot is probably slightly better, I just haven't had a chance to try it in the gp100 yet. For hotter loads with the same bullet I found top end loadings of aa5 to be just about perfect. I've also found 2400 to do well for 2nd level loads, but the 3 in barrel limits things a bit. I haven't tried unique or too many other powders. Enjoy enjoy enjoy!!!! PS. I just turned 44. There really is something to that number!
Hey thanks this was a great video
Thank you!
I was considering getting this press. That primer feed is kinda copied from a CH 444 press I’ve had for decades. I use CH , RCBS , and Lee shell holders. Either way I could probably keep priming on my CH 444 press. I just wanted a bigger press for Magnum rifle cartridges. Good video. 👍
Thanks for this video. Myself also being long time automotive tech, am used to this but I'm sure this will really help others that don't sort castings by temperatures. Great explanations with detail.
Thanks for this video! A great help for my castings. That chart makes it real quick, easy and simple, for starting points. Anybody that has ever experienced a "leaded barrel" will never make that mistake again! Fast speeds do not always equal the best performance or accuracy.
If I shoot a revolver most of the time it's one of t 44s
i am building a 24ft x 24 ft 2 door air conditioned garage, its going to be my gun workshop, i also have a 250 yard range on my land. The reloading bench will be about 23 feet long. Dream come true. I started in a little closet 15 years ago in my apartment.
I used lewis lead remover to clean my forcing cone and barrel land and grooves.
Hi there and many thanks for your wonderful information's ( abd easy to understand . But i have question if you can help me with please !?! Im trying to make a gun at home . Have very nice barrel ready to make a hole fit to 7.92×57 ( 8mm) Mauser bullet . Now , im just wondering how big is the diameters of the barrel should be ??? Because if it is going to be exact dize of actual bullet ( 8mm) ! Then it wont have any room inside the barrel to move !!! And if i take slightly wider than bullet , then it would allow the gaz pass true the side of bullet and eventually affect the power of bullet . So im confused a bit . But you must remember that i cant make an expention barrel as I don't have much modern equipments . If you could please help me with my project , i will be thanks full . Thank you mate . 👍
Exactly the reason I hand prime on an ancient (70s) Lee Autoprime. ALWAYS below flush.
VERY GOOD ILLUSTRATIONS AND EXPLANATION.
Nice but painfully slow. Been powder coating bullets for abot 7 years now. Here's what i learned to do very early on. Use a #5 plastic container, it builds static much quicker and no need for BBs. I dump a tea spoon of quality powder coat, 150 or so bullets in the container, shake for 20-30 seconds. I then dump them all out on a hardware cloth tray, bake for 15 minutes 325 degrees. Pull out dump in buck of water if im doing 1000 or so and don't want to wait fot them to cool for next batch. They come out 98 percent covered and maybe a few stuck together but they separate easy with a tap. If your looking for photo shoots tweezers and 30 at a time work, for mass quantities, perfectly functional coated and short time, dump them in a pile on harware cloth. Check out Elvis reloading, he has some pointers. Nice video.
I applaud you for towing the linevwith rhe L.E. Willson trimmer. I have 3, are very accurate and nice trim. I since learned this; caliber specific expensive holders and two types per caliber, slow. There are far better, faster and in some cases much cheaper trimmers options today that will also chamfer, deburr and trim in one take. Think tri-way trimmer and the like. If this works for you great. For me after 25 years of painfully slow trimming, I just couldn't see using that trimmer any longer. It's great for for 20-50 a batch, but not for any larger batches for me. Nice video.
Check you bullet to cylinder bore fit, might be loose and leaving lead on the cone.
I've found that using a 'Birchwood Casey' lead remover and polishing cloth does a good job of removing leading. _If you keep up with it._ I don't know what's in those cloths, but they sure do work, and they're thick enough to use between an angled tool and the cone without tearing the cloth apart.
The cylinder timing and alignment is what centers the bullet, not the free play in the cylinder notches and the bullet bouncing off the forcing cone. The cone is there to compensate for misalignment and to help prevent shaving and leading. Once that bullet leaves the cylinder throat it will hit where ever the cylinder is in relation to the forcing cone. The bullet will not self align.
Good topic for a hot head like myself, thanks.
Thanks for watching and thanks for the encouragement 👍