Stainless44
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Good Afternoon,
As I am new to this forum, but not handloading, I have a couple of possibly strange question.
First a little background. Recently I went to a garage sale that advertised "reloading supplies". Turns out that a gunsmith had died of a heart attack and the widow wanted everything gone. In the back corner was his reloading stuff, consisting of several pounds of powder and brass. A box of shotgun shells was buried in the mix. In a fit of wonderlust, I purchased the whole bunch of stuff. Now I have everything to reload 12 ga. handgun and possibly rifle for the next 20 years.
Now to the questions:
1. Having read forum posts for the last 3 days, is there a definitive publication on identifying shotgun hulls? Not only do I have the ones from the sale, but I have picked up hundreds from the forest over the years.
2. I have seen a couple of recipes for Red Dot for 44 Mag, are there any for .40 S&W?
3. I saw in the "Lyman cast bullet handbook 3rd edition" that there are recipes for 30-06 that use Red Dot, but they are cast lead. Is there a way to convert that data to jacketed bullets?
4.Has anybody used Red Dot in either handgun or rifle and if so, what was your impression?
The reasons for the specific powder is that one of the canisters is 15 pounds of Red Dot and its the only one open, so I'd like to use it.
Sorry, it sounds like I'm rambling and this post is getting lengthy.
Thanks in advance for the help.
As I am new to this forum, but not handloading, I have a couple of possibly strange question.
First a little background. Recently I went to a garage sale that advertised "reloading supplies". Turns out that a gunsmith had died of a heart attack and the widow wanted everything gone. In the back corner was his reloading stuff, consisting of several pounds of powder and brass. A box of shotgun shells was buried in the mix. In a fit of wonderlust, I purchased the whole bunch of stuff. Now I have everything to reload 12 ga. handgun and possibly rifle for the next 20 years.
Now to the questions:
1. Having read forum posts for the last 3 days, is there a definitive publication on identifying shotgun hulls? Not only do I have the ones from the sale, but I have picked up hundreds from the forest over the years.
2. I have seen a couple of recipes for Red Dot for 44 Mag, are there any for .40 S&W?
3. I saw in the "Lyman cast bullet handbook 3rd edition" that there are recipes for 30-06 that use Red Dot, but they are cast lead. Is there a way to convert that data to jacketed bullets?
4.Has anybody used Red Dot in either handgun or rifle and if so, what was your impression?
The reasons for the specific powder is that one of the canisters is 15 pounds of Red Dot and its the only one open, so I'd like to use it.
Sorry, it sounds like I'm rambling and this post is getting lengthy.
Thanks in advance for the help.