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skeet · #16 03-07-2010, 08:48 PM

I tried a tumble lube bullet in the 38 and had terrible leading with it. Probably the gun or the lead alloy. but I kinda swore off of them. I have a few custon moulds in 44 and 45. One is a really neat cramer type hollowpoint and it seems to shoot pretty will run through the 430 Star sizer. Bullet measures ,4315 from the mould. Using that Red lube. Kinda hard but it works ok when you heat the sizer a bit. I am only pushing 'em about 850-875 though..

buckhunter · #17 03-08-2010, 12:12 PM

Rocky ,

Ya stop posting those pictures. It too rough on my pocket book.

Sheet, did you ever meet Lew Horton. He had a retail store for years in Framingham, Mass and believe he still has a wholesale operation. Not a bad guy. Don't know if he is still with us or not.

skeet · #18 03-09-2010, 09:26 PM

I was at a pretty large get together that the wholesalers put on one time up near Rochester NY.. I was buying an awful lot of reloading items at the time. Wholesaling some and selling the rest retail. I was selling about 750,000 to 1 million wads a month and 10-12 ton of shot so got invited.. Went to it with a guy from Pa named Clair Frank. He had waaaayyyy more BS than I did. He was from near Lancaster Pa..Actually Willow Street. Dead now..But I was kinda young then...Heck so was he. Diabetes and the banks got him.. Only thing wrong with selling all that stuff was i didn't make enough profit. Heck none of us did. We were making about 20 cents a bag on shot..Lotta handling for 20 cents. Back to the subject at hand..That sure is a pretty gun Rocky has there. How does it shoot, Rocky??

Rocky Raab · #19 03-11-2010, 10:03 AM

Beats me, sad to say. My usual range is still closed for winter, and another is open, but only on weekends. And an indoor range doesn't allow lead bullets.

So I look at it and fondle it every day - but it hasn't fired a shot yet.

skeet · #20 03-11-2010, 11:21 AM

That sure sucks. Luckily I can go out the door to the little range I have set up out in front of the house. I was out early this morning hoping to catch a slow coyote going back to wherever they go during the day. No such luck this morning. They were out howlin all night though.

Went to a little auction in Billings yesterday and picked up another Contender bbl.. this one in 30 Herrett. Haven't had a Herrett in a long time. Anyway..got the darn thing with the T-C (Pacific) dies the old Bushnell/TC Lobo scope ammo brass bullets etc and an extra Contender grip and forend for a 150 bucks..Think I did ok on the price. If'n it shoots. Took the ammo apart already and checked the loads and they were spot on to what was listed on the boxes. Should be a good load. Gotta try it out ...again..Like I did a few years ago. Kinda tough one to load for till you start headspacing it on the shoulder. At least I kinda remember it that way.. I surely do like handguns. I just wish I was a good handgun shooter