BrianK

I can't help with the question, but I can say welcome to the forum!

I had to laugh too. Illegal to wear body armor in the commission of a crime... Isn't it illegal to commit a crime in the first place? I bet the dirtbag also has a firearm, maybe that's illegal too? I also have to comment that NYS politicians (more dirtbags) now can't wear body armor when doing their work since what they are doing is a crime. Jackasses. More laws against the law abiding folks that will do NOTHING(!) to stop or even give a pause to crime. Jackasses.

You read it correctly. I decided to try not putting a GC on a bullet made for one. I had to try it 😊 . I have plenty of GCs on hand and more on order. The GCed bullets worked much better and it's not an issue to put one on as I size them. I have 2 more moulds on hand for lighter bullets; one that will take a GC and one that is made to be coated with a plain base (no GC). Experiments... The coating I'm using is Hi-Tec using their wet method. I coat them 2x then size them. If I need to I'll coat them 3x, but the twice coated pass the tests. But I'd like to recover one that's been fired to eyeball it. Maybe if I soak a stack of magazines overnight to turn them into pulp that might catch them. So far I'm happy with the results I'm getting. I never dreamt I'd ever actually need to cast bullets even though I had the wheel weights.

If I get time I'll dial in these loads a bit more. Next on the agenda are bullets in the 150ish grain weight. I have a no GC (gas check) mould in hand designed exclusively for coated bullets and one on it's way to me that takes a gas check. We have an outlaw match once in awhile (If you bring it you can shoot it type match*) and I want to use the 300BLK handgun in it. So a lighter supersonic bullet is what's needed for 200 yard+ shots. I tried to buy 147gr bullet pulls but I couldn't find any. A year ago there were plenty available. Sux to be me I guess. But once I have the moulds I can make what I want and as many as I want so buying it didn't hurt at all. All of these cast bullets should be usable in .32/20 which is on a back burner at the moment. *Last year I was going to shoot my suppressed 9mm SBR. I was going to just skip the long range stage and not mortar in my 9mm bullets. But the RO brought a rifle and ammo for me and told me there was no way I was going to not shoot them. But I prefer to shoot my own gun. I think 150s will work fine for me.

The wife asked what I wanted for Fathers Day. I immediately stated "Another bullet mould." So this NOE 5 cavity mould was ordered. https://noebulletmolds.com/site/product-category/bullet-moulds/308-311/309-146-sp-h2/ Surprise, surprise, the order I had with Botach that sat on the loading dock for 10 days? The one I told them yesterday to cancel and refund my money? It shipped today. Just a coincidence I'm sure. I'll bet the NOE order ships today. They handle orders the way I did when I had a mail order business. I always thought that the customers $ was loaned to me until I actually earned it by shipping their product. Actual shipping and not slapping a label on a package and having it wait until I was good and ready to ship it. Some orders got shipped in the same hour I received it.

I never thought I'd ever cast bullets. But during the Klinton years I saw the writing on the wall and bought 2 55 gallon drums of wheel weights, 1500-1800lbs'. Now I'm glad I have it. At my age it's a lifetime supply. Everything else (except Trail Boss powder) I've stacked high and deep. I'll never live long enough to use all of it. If I do I'll be extremely surprised. Canuck', it's a skill worth learning. I learned on #4 buckshot. If you can cast them and fill out the mould you can cast anything. They were a curse, but ultimately a great learning experience for me.

I ordered the 300BLk conversion at the same time and after it didn't show after another year (but dealers had theirs) I cancelled. That makes 5 years. I should have cancelled the entire order years sooner. After delivery DT upgraded the MDR and crapped on all their early buyers. Wonderful company. They send me emails with expensive stuff for sale and I just delete them. When I requested a refund they had the balls to charge me for the check after they used my $ for all that time interest free!

More stuff on order. Lancer mags. Placed the order on the 3rd and here it is the 13th. UPS shows that they haven't even taken possession of it from Botach. I sent them an email just now telling them if they can't get it to UPS to refund my $. Ten days should be MORE than enough time to get it to UPS!

I'm still learning ALOT(!) about casting and loading cast bullets since I'm a noob with homecast bullets. Maybe this will be old hat to some here. My mind is open if anyone cares to share their knowledge. Coated 2x, tested some with a gas check and some w/o. It was suggested on the Cast Boolit Forum that a GC bullet is more accurate. Makes sense since the bullet is steered from the rear and not the front. I did NOT change all variables when I developed a load to test. I only got the load near subsonic with AA1680 powder and called it good since I was getting close to 100% function w/o a GC. I made them last autumn but didn't get a chance to test them until last weekend. The loads w/o a gas check were disappointing re: accuracy and less than 100% function. But I tested the GC loads (everything else being the same) got a bit more velocity, 100% function, and groups were 1/3 that of the loads w/o GCs; 1.5" @50 yards. I might lower the powder charge a bit to get it more into the subsonic range but if I don't I'm happy with what I have. I never thought that a GC would have that big an influence. FWIW, the bases of the bullets w/o the GCs are crisp and sharp. I also might try sizing them .001" larger and see what happens.

😆 Yeah, hard to believe, I know. But some folks who actually absorb what the lying media says need to have it drawn out for them. biteme and nobama voters.

Still waiting on my 10" Volquartsen barrel for my takedown Charger SBR. But I don't expect the same delay as I had for my DT MDR, that was a 4 year wait for the rifle and another year for the 300BLK conversion that I cancelled and got refunded. I did want the new barrel for a steel challenge match this coming weekend. Now even if it's shipped today (not likely) I won't have time to sight it in. Sux to be me.

Good going Ohio! Reassure your family. Those fears have been perpetrated by the media in every state that CC has been tried. Now understand that the media is calling buckeyes somehow retarded or stupid when it comes to CC. But of course they aren't. They are the same as everyone else throughout every state where CC is the law of the land. I'm still waiting for the death toll to rise, as per the lefts vision... and it hasn't! The media and politicians need to apologize for the assumption of substandard humans they make every time in every state where they fight tooth and nail to prevent basic rights. Of course it'll never happen. FWIW, let's understand the lefts assertion with CC and blood flowing in the streets. The left is insane and evil. Bear with me. I mentioned in a post a study that was conducted that by far (5:1) the left was seeking the help of mental illness professionals. A psychologist replied to me that in his practice he estimated that 90-95% of his clients were leftist and further stated that that statistic was the same country wide. Evil? Just look at the recent past where they burned the left coast cities and their twisted goals. Now to understand the medias penchant for their "blood in the streets" claim... They know what they would do with firearms, heck all of the mass murders with firearms have been by the left, so they are projecting themselves onto us. They can't comprehend that they are evil dirtbags and that we aren't, so in their mind we're all the same. Tell your family to relax. The criminals have had permitless concealed carry forever. This just allows the good guys to also carry. Crime will go down, not up, as it has in every state that has CC. Yet another sign that the left is evil. Why would anyone look at the data and not support a drop in crime? Does the ALMIGHTY or satan support crime and chaos?

un effing believable! Defund ATF!

Too funny!

This forum is dangerous to my wallet! Right now my 300BLK build MUST wear either a blast forwarder or a can so as not to destroy the carbon fiber forearm. I've been kicking around the idea of building another upper with a short forearm and thereby get a handgun that is 4+" shorter and a bunch lighter. With a folding buffer tube adapter it would be quite small when folded. Right now it's just a sort of "maybe I should do this" sort of thought. I have no idea what I'd use it for but it might be nice to have. I'm almost 70, do I need it? Want is a different matter entirely. If I was younger and more able I'd do it in a heartbeat. To build it to my specs is expensive so I lean toward not building it. Maybe my brother wants something like that. He and I could build it together for him using his check book. He doesn't know it yet but he needs either a 300 BLK or a 300 Ham'r. So far he has successfully resisted my seed planting.

Exactly! I've never found one superior cartridge. But there may be a superior cartridge for a given application. The author of the article should have known better IMO. He's not a noob. Maybe I missed something. Highly likely. I seem to remember in many years past a cartridge based on the .223 with the neck opened up to .30. As is it might not feed in a magazine (was it for the Contender?), but shorten the brass and deep seat the bullet and maybe I'm envisioning the 300 Ham'r? Oh well, I don't want it. I don't want a .30 in the AR that uses more powder than the 300BLK. The BLK does exactly what I need it to do. Maybe if we had hogs the 300 Ham'r might attract me, but the .50 Beowulf could be used or even a .308 Win. I'm rambling.

I know I don't understand the way the left thinks (pure evil). But this is not that. It involves 300BLK vs 300Ham'r vs .308 Win. There is a review of the Wilson 300 Ham'r in the latest Firearms News and In it the author basically states that the 300Ham'r is superior to the 300 BLK and if it had come out forst the 300BLK would be nonexistent today. He bases it only on velocity and ft/lbs. Heck, going by that POF makes an Ar15 in .308 Win that will wi[e the floor with the Ham'r. I built my 300BLK because it could do a credible job at supersonic and still do subsonic. The author admits the Ham'r doesn't do subsonic well. I'm at a loss to understand the superiority of the Ham'r if it doesn't do subsonic. It clearly wouldn't work for me. Or should I go back to my prepubescents days when I compared cartridges based on ft/lbs and velocity with little understanding of anything else? Like what they can be used for? I hope I'm explaining myself adequately. I don't think I'm a fan boy for anything, but I see what will work for me and select the cartridge based on what it will do. Heck, I even use cartridges from the late 1800s because they do what I want. I think the author of the article is full of crap. But I don't doubt that the 300 Ham'r is right for the use some folks will put it to. But superior? So how does it do subsonic? And does it just sip powder to do what it does? That was another reason I liked 300BLK, it uses little powder to get 'er done.

That is slicker than snot! I was laughing my ass off for the first few seconds. Would I want one, sure, I'd take one if it was given to me. I wouldn't want to pay for it or feed it.

I'm shooting .22 from the '70s and yes, it works great, llke the day I bought it.

We make very little in this country anymore. What a shame. We finance our enemies military build up to defeat us. PETA types... Yeah, they'd rather but the meat grown in plastic rather than get the stuff harvested by themselves. Of course I jest, but that was in an irate letter to the editor many years ago by a moron. Of course a deer will run off as it bleeds out. With what I think could be coming you just might skewer one in your backyard.

Welcome to the forum. I can't help you but as you've already seen, others can and will help.

Soon after getting the Exomag and while waiting for Maine to open up xbow season I joined an archery club to make use of their wooded field course. It was super easy. The velocity of the xbow meant minimal trajectory compensation. I don't remember anything that wouldn't have been a kill shot. It was super simple to make the shots. Ranges were typical vertical bow range. Some folks think they have firing distance like a firearm and they don't. One shot, that's it within typical bow range, so make it good. They are slow to load and ungainly in the forest. When one lets the limbs go forward there had better not be something in the way or you have a broken collar bone.

Nice!

I think the accuracy is a characteristic for Excalibur. I have the Exomag and have had it for decades. When I demoed it for a vertical bow user and he nearly soiled his undies due to how good I was with it immediately. Need to be careful and pick a different spot on the target so as not to split a shaft. I ordered a mess of strings and have yet to replace the first after many hundreds of shots. I've heard of some xbows that need a new string after much fewer shots. I bought mine to take advantage of the (at the time) proposed xbow season. Then Maine put us in with firearms and not bow season, so I gave up the idea of using it and stayed with a firearm. Now decades later I can't hunt at all. MtnMike, one thing to be aware of with a crossbow is that the shaft may come out the far side of a deer and still have dangerous velocity. You mentioned a HOA and to me that means people being around. YIKES! Just something to consider.

Minor part... Just ordered a H&K style 3 lug adapter for the new barrel when it arrives.