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The post office closest to me WON'T cash a USPS money order. I've always found that odd. I quit using USPS money orders years ago. If someone won't take my personal check, I move on.

I read some where that only 77 were made. I have no idea if it's true.

I don't know the exact reason but I do know that whenever there is a component shortage Alliant powders are always the most difficult to come by. I moved away from them for that exact reason.

Looking for a box or two of Speer #1629 (145gr. SP) and Hornady #2830 (154 gr. SP) flat base spitzers. Prefer to get either one of each or 2 of one from same person so shipping is worth while. Thanks, Patrick

I have an old keg of DuPont IMR 4064 from the 1970's that I use to load practice ammo for the .458 WM. With 71.0gr, a Win LRM primer, and a 500gr cast bullet it clocks 2078 fps. Switching to a CCI 200 primer the velocity drops to 2053 fps.

You have a great press to use those file trim dies on. The angle allows the filings to fall away from the ram and not down into the press body/ram interface.

I doubt it is even remotely viable. They can't make 9mm Luger or .223 dies fast enough. Just think of the backlog of the thousands (tens of thousands?) that each maker need to produce in those calibers alone. There's no reason to make 2 dozen .404 Jeffrey die sets from a business standpoint as...

I shoot a 250gr. gas checked cast bullet sized @ .379" (bullet from my 38-55 M94) at 2150 fps with 43.0 grs. of IMR 3031

I respectfully disagree with the Professor. Euro cartridges don't even remotely come close to holding their own in the the USA as far as market share or volume of guns and ammo made. The 3 exceptions are the 9mm Luger and 7.62x39mm, and the .375 H&H. Every other Euro cartridge is a...

Another idea, (if the .404 slips into the Rigby FCD) is if you need to open the finger end of the Rigby collet, would be to wrap a 3/8" steel rod with a narrow strip of 220 grit sand paper where the neck would be and screw the die down until it just kisses the sand paper and turn the rod while...

It just might work. Most collects in the machine shop arena have about a + or - tolerance of around .008" to .010". I did modify a 6.5x55 Swede FCD once to work on the 6.5x54 M-S by turning down the overall length of the collet by .055" (material removed from the bottom of collet where they...

Sorry about being unclear. Trying to machine an existing collet of a .416 Rem (for example) FCD would be difficult because the collet finger are thin and springy. You would have to build some fixture to support the fingers and hold the body. It would be easier to build a new collet to correct...

No, the Lee design works with the cartridge length to apply the crimp. The .44 Mag collet is too short.

Well it would be a little easier if I could adapt a pre-made collet to the Lee die body rather than start from scratch to keep the price reasonable.

The collet is the issue. In the machine shop world there is tooling called emergency collets. This is a 3 slit collet with a 1/16" pilot hole and is not hardened so you can bore it to your desired size/shape. The Lee collet is a 4 slit design. I don't have a .404 Jeffrey dummy round or shell...