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    Lake City Army Amunition

    Re: Lake City Army Amunition I take down LC match cases in three stages. 1. FL size in 308 die with no expander after decapping with Lee universal decap die. 2. FL size down to 7/08 with no expander. 3. FL size down to 260 with no expander. 4. Stress relieve neck and shoulders. 5. Try...
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    Soaps 4 stainless steel pin cleaning PLEASE REPORT

    Re: Soaps 4 stainless steel pin cleaning PLEASE REPORT Try the Lime Away and Ivory for a combo. That might work.
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    Soaps 4 stainless steel pin cleaning PLEASE REPORT

    Re: Soaps 4 stainless steel pin cleaning PLEASE REPORT I find I get more uniform results by measuring as I also figured out not enough soap will cause problems so if brass is still shiney (from previous cleaning/and just fired) then 1/2 oz will do but if it is scuzzy I go for a full ounce...
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    Can anyone identify this ammo?

    Re: Can anyone identify this ammo? pull op rod to rear, apply GI bore cleaner in gas hole with gas piston in the down position. If you don't have GI bore cleaner do Ed's Red 1/3 Mercon Dexron Tranny fluid, 1/3rd kerosene or Off road Diesel and 1/3 paint thinner or mineral spirits. GI bore...
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    Soaps 4 stainless steel pin cleaning PLEASE REPORT

    Re: Soaps 4 stainless steel pin cleaning PLEASE REPORT How does Ajax compare to Ivory price wise? How much do you use. I use 1/2 ounce Ivory and 9MM case full of Limishine as my No 1 formula. On extremely scuzzy brass I will go to one ounce on Dawn with Limishine.
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    Soaps 4 stainless steel pin cleaning PLEASE REPORT

    Well I decided to look around and see if something better or as good as Ivory could be found. Just got in new axles for a Thumlers Mod B. I have a Mod A I converted over to run as a B and the original axles for the A were lacking so I called Thumlers and ordered new ones so now I have two Mod...
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    Photos One hell of a boat tail.

    Re: One hell of a boat tail. Just as a point of interest I pulled up my reference material I have had for 30+ years. It appears you have bullets from M20 APIT. It flew at 2900 fps and had around 55,000 PSI launching it. Incendiary Flash must be capable of initiating combustion of flammable...
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    Photos One hell of a boat tail.

    Re: One hell of a boat tail. When I was working for the Army Small Cal Lab I was in charge of setting up a demo for Marine Corps at Quantico and I went down early to get it together. The weapon was the Dover Devil 50 Cal MG. It was one of four bread boards we had put together. The Gunny...
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    Photos One hell of a boat tail.

    Re: One hell of a boat tail. Just thought I would mention incendiary tracers ignite back end (load normally) by propellent ignition. The Incendiary formula is ignited by energy transfer from striking a hard target at velocity. You may have got away with it so far but sooner or later you are...
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    Smooth-Kote

    Re: Smooth-Kote the thing to remember about moly is that there are two variations of it. Inhibited and un-inhibited. The UN will set you up for galvanic action (known as rust/pitting) as it is much cheaper to manufacture. to my knowledge there is only one source of inhibited moly and that...
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    Why buy QuickLOAD?

    Re: Why buy QuickLOAD? I don't even have the latest version of QL but the main thing I like about it is gives you the percent of powder that will be burned in a given barrel length and bullet weight. Some powders will only burn about 92% of the powder. The rest is blown out the muzzle. It...
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    Match .30-06 ammo to buy?

    Re: Match .30-06 ammo to buy? PM sent
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    Trouble with electronic scales

    Re: Trouble with electronic scales also you don't want your cell phone or anything else that will transmit radio signals anywhere near your electronic scales.
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    Stainless Steel Media Testimonials

    Re: Stainless Steel Media Testimonials How does Flitz solvent differ from Flitz paste? the blue stuff? I have a couple of tubes of it and I know the bench rest boys love it to go on patches but never heard of a solvent?????
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    Varget in 7/08 seems to be exceptionally dirty

    Re: Varget in 7/08 seems to be exceptionally dirty I pulled up QuickLoad and have some comparable loads written down to try with 4895, RL 19, VV N140. Based on case volume it would appear I am going to have to drop from the 37.8 grain range down to 35 grain when I try 168 Sierras or I will...
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    Flash Hole Deburring Tool

    Re: Flash Hole Deburring Tool Get both from Sinclair international. The primer pocket uniformer most likely won't be needed on 5.56 cases but possibly so on 308 in my experience with loading each. the flash hole tool you set a hair long, it is just to center it in hole, not to control...
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    Varget in 7/08 seems to be exceptionally dirty

    Re: Varget in 7/08 seems to be exceptionally dirty The M24s at the Sniper School at Benning were up to 15,000 rounds last I heard but it must be remembered they are only fired slow fire and cleaned often. The M24 spec called for 10,000 rounds at one minute intervals. One barrel made it...
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    Varget in 7/08 seems to be exceptionally dirty

    Re: Varget in 7/08 seems to be exceptionally dirty How are you tumbling? Is this residue you scraped out or fell out in tumbling?
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    Anyone have Winchester's phone #?

    Re: Anyone have Winchester's phone #? FWIW when I was at a major arms vendor plant years ago I saw hundreds of cases with this and other defects. The defective rounds are segregated out, sold to the industry and function firing rounds and shot day in and day out with no problmes. They are...
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    Varget in 7/08 seems to be exceptionally dirty

    Re: Varget in 7/08 seems to be exceptionally dirty Not exactly the same principle here as sharpening a knife you are forcing a small surface contact area with force against an abrasive and the metal residue left in surface of the stone is released by the application of a lubricant to restore...
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