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  1. Hammerdown22

    Options for getting custom carbide or nitrided mandrels

    They just ground me a carbide turning mandrel. Maybe they don't do expanding mandrels?
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    Options for getting custom carbide or nitrided mandrels

    Call k&m they will grind custom carbide.
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    How do you choose a BULLET for load development?

    maybe I'm doing it wrong but I pick the bullet first then the case then pick the rifle to shoot it.
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    Non ss pin rotary tumbler media?

    That you know of. how many pins did you send out the end of the barrel and didn't know? I shake the pins out in a bucket then rinse each one under running water in the sink and again before I pirme them I tap each one upside down once. But one pin apparently remained. Also I load mostly small...
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    Non ss pin rotary tumbler media?

    I might try rice tomorrow
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    Non ss pin rotary tumbler media?

    Walnut media didn't really do anything
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    Non ss pin rotary tumbler media?

    So I ran the tumbler for 3hr. Heres the results
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    Non ss pin rotary tumbler media?

    Ya but sending a ss pin down the bore of a custom rifle is gonna do more damage compared to a grain of rice or walnut.
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    Non ss pin rotary tumbler media?

    I just threw some walnut media in my Frankford tumbler with some dirty ar 15 range brass. I'll see what it does.
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    Non ss pin rotary tumbler media?

    Has anyone tried rice or walnut in a rotary? All I see is it being used in vibratory tumbler.
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    Non ss pin rotary tumbler media?

    I was shooting and the next round wouldn't chamber so I looked and there was a ss pin sitting in the chamber. Wondering if anyone has success using different media in their rotary tumbler? I even tapped each case upside over before charging them and still somehow one snuck by. Not worth the risk.
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    Mausingfield extractor tuning

    I think I got it worked out. Took a little off the bottom corner of the extractor and straightened the bow of the extractor a little.
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    Mausingfield extractor tuning

    I have a mausingfield chambered in 17 remington.In a mpa chassis. I am currently using mdt polymer mag and I have a metal accurate mag on the way to try. It is binding about 3/4 the way closed, the case rim is starting under the extractor but not going all the way up in it. I was wondering if...
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    Mausingfield extractor tuning

    I was wondering if anyone could point me to where I can get more info on how to tune an extractor on a mausingfield I seen a thread that had a video but the video won't open for me. having the action bind up about 2/3s the way closed and the case rim isn't going all the way up into the bolt...