Recent content by mgstucson

I know this is an old thread, but if you have trouble finding .410 bullets, .416 is usually more plentiful and with a .411 or .410 resizing die you are in business. I swage my own jacketed bullets, and I got .416 swage dies and .411 resize dies so I can make both calibers. Lee makes the...

Hollywood Gun Shop was owned by aircraft machinist, and catered to an exclusive clientele of the rich and famous in it's hey day. This clientele seemed interested in the unique and unusual, so there seem to be a lot of custom made unusual caliber/wildcat dies that pop up on Ebay with some...

I have used many different dies for rifle and pistol, Lee, Hornady, RCBS, Redding, etc. The best dies I have ever personally owned are Redding Custom Dies. I own a Hollywood Senior Turret Press and powder measures, shot measure, and shotshell dies made by original Hollywood Gun Shop and...

Thanks Medriver. I am getting ready to have one of my 35 Whelens rebored to 400 Whelen, and would love to have the barrel shortened to 21". Now I might just do that based on your experience. I live in the desert SW so I will be able to test loads at over 110F. If it gets much hotter than...

The company transferred ownership a couple times. The shop itself burned down 10 or 15 years ago. The remaining inventory that could be were salvaged and rights acquired by a small machining company, but it soon went under also. Rights are now owned by a man in Flagstaff, AZ and he has a few...

Bert, It is indeed recreation time, if not therapy for me. It helps me relax and is a LOT cheaper than either alternative. As a therapist for other therapists, I know exactly how much that costs. I work exclusively with my mind all week. Alternately, being able to create something tangible...

DMV, Here is a sample of what benchrest shooters go through swaging their own bullets, to EXCEED quality and consistency over commercially available "premium" projectiles. http://www.benchrest.com/FAQ/1.shtml Guttorm, I have less years, but when I got into big bore shooting and faced prices...

Just thought I would post a picture of the tubing bullet jacket maker die set. This set will make heavy jackets (.035 jacket thickness) for .510, .500, .458, and .416 caliber bullets from copper tubing used in plumbing trades and sold in lengths up to 20 feet here in the states (very reasonably...

To me, the main reason to use a lever action for dangerous game is because you can fire it faster. You can probably fire a lever action as fast as a double rifle with the same cartridge, because you can fire either one as fast as you can roll back down out of recoil, but with the lever action...

In Rifle Magazine in March-April 2005, an article was written about an Alaskan professional hunter (guide) Ed Stevenson. He has over 44 years of "continual" experince guiding for the big bears in Alaska. Not only that, but he lives in one of his hunting camps year round. He NEVER leaves the...

I just got new dies for making jackets from rigid tubing I can make 500, 458, 416 (416 can be reduced to 411 also) from Type L 3/8" rigid tubing. Also got new dies for swaging 416 bullets. These jackets are really thick. With welded cores these things will REALLY hold together no matter what...

Right you are. Those same 22lr jackets can be used with #12 shot to make a safety slug to greatly reduce the likelihood of over penetration in home defense scenarios. They are even MORE explosive on ground hogs. Glaser Safety Slug used to make these. The premium ammo maker Cor-Bon I...

The quality of bullets made at home can meet or exceed performance of premium commercial bullets, just like a home reloader can exceed performance of commercial ammo because in both instances, the person working at home has time to create precision round to round (weighing and inspecting every...

Hunter, True, if going from scratch, it is just under $900 for dies and press for one caliber, but you need a press for reloading anyway, plus 458 dies work for 458 Win Mag, 458 Lott and 45-70, and even pistol calibers (with inexpensive sizing dies) 45acp, 45lc, 454 cassul, 460 S&W. Then the...

Right you are. Sorry for the omission. 375 round nose soft point, 250gr, 223 fired brass case used as bullet jacket 375 solid round nose, 230gr and 330gr copper tubing jackets (requires additional dies to make copper tubing jackets) 458 die set. Bullets shown are 4S spitzer ogive...