R.G. Robinett
"That'll never work."
A direct link to another legendary ICON
- Guy was a great asset/emissary to bench-rest shooting! RG
I used Lanolin and Castor oil. Lanolin and Vaseline were ok, till my house dried out in the winter. Sometimes, the bullet would stick to the ejector pin and get sucked up into die. I twice made the mistake of trying to grab bullet, before it went back into die. The punch will make a perfect 6mm hole in your thumb nail.....He also made some great bullet lube I wish his daughter would give the formula
to make it
RG
You mentioned Allen Bench in a post here. I knew him well, he was one of my mentors in my early years. He was generous to a fault, gave me a Pindell 30 cal point up die that makes very nice bullets, a Pat McMillan 22 barrel that had polygon rifling that shoots quite well, and a partially finished Weber UNL receiver. He is missed by all the "old " BR shooter here in the NW.
On another post I mentioned I had a lot of .750" J-4 6mm jackets. I finally, last week, got to making bullets on them. I had the most pleasant experience making them, I hit an absolute perfect core seat punch/core weight combination such that there was almost no lead flash around the punch, no shaving of copper off the jacket wall, and no sticking of the jacket on the punch. Can't recall I every have made a batch of bullets where that occurred. Just plain luck!
FWIW
Steve Kostanich
I'm not sure where you are getting your information on diesWe seem to overwhelmed by bullet making presses
George’s any idea of a price
Then there’s
STA-Moly
Lenzi
The Australian
armamentsbydesign bullet making Press $3,500 Australian
Wish l could say the same for bullet forming dies, it seems the only one out there is Jeff Piendhart, (Sta-Moly) and it’s a two year wait
So…plenty of press options but no forming die
Well, that is good news.