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Just started casting my own boolits, and of course the question of "how hard is the alloy" arrived.
I choose LEE's kit - having read that it was both fairly accurate, and a pain in the arse to use.
Yes, it's a total pain the in arse! Keep the bullet still, hold the light just right, and fight the microscope - 10 power, so every movement is amplified by same amount, and the bloody image is reversed!
So I kludged together this:
Ugly... But it works incredibly well! Used a case (No, that's not a live primer
) to hold the bullet (so I could spin it into view) and the V-block that came with the kit to hold that assembly in place.
Getting an image with a cell phone proved to be difficult - had to turn the flashlight off.
Take a reading, look up Pmax on the supplied chart, load accordingly, and off to the range!
I choose LEE's kit - having read that it was both fairly accurate, and a pain in the arse to use.
Yes, it's a total pain the in arse! Keep the bullet still, hold the light just right, and fight the microscope - 10 power, so every movement is amplified by same amount, and the bloody image is reversed!
So I kludged together this:
Ugly... But it works incredibly well! Used a case (No, that's not a live primer
) to hold the bullet (so I could spin it into view) and the V-block that came with the kit to hold that assembly in place.Getting an image with a cell phone proved to be difficult - had to turn the flashlight off.
Take a reading, look up Pmax on the supplied chart, load accordingly, and off to the range!
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