FORTUNECOOKIE45LC - THE HOT LEAD ZONE

This is a YouTube video published here a month early for the RUMBLE followers. - - We all want our reloading benches and operations to be as efficient, economical and frustration free as possible. Here are some hacks that might be useful, especially to newer reloaders, but also might inspire more experienced reloaders to share their own ideas and hacks...

Introducing shooting to a youngster is a distinct privilege and must be done with care. It's all about the newbie. The experience must be tailored to the particular youngster or newbie. And the teacher must be ready to go slow if necessary, and allow moving forward if that is indicated. The goodness must be reinforced with huge doses of safety as without safety, there is nothing. With safety, and the world of shooting greets with open arms. Put signatures on the experience and the memories cue in for decades to come...

If we get defective tools or parts, is it because things don't fit together? Of course, we can send them back to the factory especially if complexity is in the works. But if something is simple, can we assess and create home engineered solutions? That effort might surely beat the effort and expense of sending back to factory...here is one case...

Powder measure stands are designed to be bolted to bench tops or to sidewalls. This is a YouTube video posted here on RUMBLE early as a benefit to our RUMBLERs. - - Most powder measure stands are designed to be mounted directly to bench tops or to sidewalls. However, this results in permanency of position and loss of versatility. Inline Fabrication Quick Mounts are cumbersome for such small footprint items. But here is a solution hack involving a mix of reloading and tool manufacturers to give us the flexibility and versatility we so desire...

Knowing of my on going relocation to Washington state, Thomas Drage decided to send me a care package, and what a joy it was to receive it...!! Amazing generosity..!! And so this video was planned to celebrate it. Of course, we needed a FortuneCookie twist to make this a bit more than the usual unboxing video...let's add details plus a trivia road trip...!! Onward.....The full enchilada complete version fromis on Patreon with a shortened version on YouTube. The whole story of MidwayUSA being named such is the shop was originally named for the small unincorporated community of Midway, Missouri just at Columbia, Missouri but the town's name was because of the location as brought out in this video...

Just over 6 months ago, we tested the wet tumbling of our brass using vinegar instead of Semi Shine and Dawn. And the results were very good in terms of quality of polish and finish. Vinegar is mild acetic acid and LemiShine is mild citric acid. Any acid we might use for wet tumbling our brass needs to be effective, easily acquired and economical, and these two fill the bill nicely. The question of long term stability of results is always asked, and we know the answer with LemiShine already. This video is to complete the promise of showing the long tern results with vinegar. A shortened version of this video will be posted on YouTube.

The FULL FLAMBEAU version of this video is on PATREON. None of this will be on YouTube. - - Let's break out some new stuff to reload for our 41 Magnum revolvers. Success with reloading hollow point cast bullets...

Our new NOE 41 caliber bullet mold goes into use in its first casting session...and let's go one better - take those bullets from mold drop to load ready in the same day...

With our powder charge of AA2520 worked out, the next step is to determine the COAL that gives the best accuracy not just presently, but also when the barrel lands migrate forward with shot erosion. Let's head for the range...

Many have wanted to load the HBWCs backwards, but the choices were either the soft pure lead target wadcutters or the copper plated hard Berry's HBWCs. Neither of these were quite right to allow the reverse HBWCs to give optimal performance. So the question in this video is Can the gas checked HBWCs be good, even excellent for us?? Let's explore this question...

This is the classic cast bullet for the 44 Magnum and 44 Special designed by Elmer Keith. Even though more modern designs like the wide flat nose bullets and silhouette bullets have been developed, the Keith bullet maintains popularity and utility today...

Not often will you see bullet casting being done at night, but it can be done with available outdoor lighting. These bullets will be shot in our 45 Colt revolvers....

This Special World of Wadcutters series needs to look into our own home cast wadcutters. And Lee has every step of the process covered to the degree that an integrated system is at work. Let's go into this very important part of the Special World of Wadcutters...

This is a shortened remake of the recent Patreon video on the same subject for posting on RUMBLE and YouTube. Reason is that there are no video reviews on the NxGen dies so the chance to do the first is fine to do. And those videos that will be coming should be interesting on the takes of others..Note: Viewers should know that Redding recommended the sizer die on the older sets to be backed off 1/2 turn to avoid severe bulges at the case head on sizing - This is what was done with the 45 Colt cases. With the NxGen sizers, just lightly touching the shellholder is good...

The Berry''s DE plated wadcutters have shot well for us in previous videos. But they are seldom loaded into nickel plated brass, instead are commonly loaded into brass cases. Since many reloaders have stores of nickel plated brass, let's see if the properties of nickel plated brass pose any problems for us in the reloading of these plated bullets...

Bullet casting has exploded in popularity with the current shortages and high prices. A number of US companies that manufacture molds include Lee, Lyman, RCBS and SAECO. NOE, out of Utah, is also noteworthy. In this video, we will do a desk top review of some representative NOE molds as well as other NOE products that could help many of us out there....

An old friend got me some of his clean Hornady 223 brass with which to do some case prep and load workup video. Turns out we have history together with that brass. So we first have to evaluate the brass before putting the proper reloading dies to the task. Here's what we came up with...

If you ever run into these soft silvery swaged HBWCs that were sold at Moulton's Gun Shop 40-50 years ago, buy a crate of 'em - they will shoot well for you even if the loaded rounds are 50 years old.

Solutions using the Inline Fabrication Docking Mounts to efficiently store multiple reloading presses within the confines of your typical shed up in WA state. This video includes the design, benches, storage, lighting and video for the Cookie Shack...

Fall is a great time for friends to get together to acknowledge the good work done in the spring and summer, and to look forward to the hunkering down of winter. And so the celebration happens over lobster and shrimp - bounty from the sea..!!

(This is the RUMBLE video including the reloading scenes deleted from the fully castrated YouTube.) - -Should any of the legions of American and worldwide 30-30 Winchester shooters desire reduced loads for range, recreation and barnyard pest control - they are fresh out of luck with factory ammo. Our 30-30 firearms are much more versatile than what our factory ammo choices allow. Reloading provides the answer - so let's get to it.

Before IPSC came along, PPC (Police Pistol Combat) matches were held in most large shooting ranges across the country and very popular. The 38 Special 148 grain wadcutter ruled the land, and custom as well as factory guns, were made to shoot this load. Moving stuff to Washington state, and here's what turned up....

Warning - nowadays, we have to inspect to not have SP brass mixed in with our regualr LP brass. This must be done to prevent mishaps with primer detonations on priming procedures. - - Shooting factory loads on anything other than 22LR or 9mm can break the piggy bank. So when Midway ran a sale on Aguila SP primers, I gathered up some SP 45 Auto from the indoor range and went to work...45 Auto on the good and cheap resulted- per round cost is equal to shooting 22LR..!! In previous limited testing, the SP brass gave slightly less velocity and accuracy. Welcome to the viewers from the YT restrictions..!!

This is an exclusive RUMBLE video not shown on YouTube. -- Rifle die sets contain 2 dies with the resizing and neck expansion being done on the first die. This requires a new expander on the depriming stem that expands the neck on the case pull out - a distinctly inferior way to achieve the neck expansion. Plus there in no flare of the case mouth possible with this system. A third die a la pistol reloading die sets solves this and the Lyman M die expander / 2 step mouth flare has been heralded for decades. Lyman also makes a nice multi tool. Let's review the M Die and that Multi Tool using our 7.62X54R reloading session...

Hello to LuckyShotAmmo..!! This reloading video was banned from YouTube. Let's post it on RUMBLE to see what the possible objections might be...