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Ed harris wrote this article which was published in the Mar/Apr 2009, #189 issue of the Fouling Shot. Properly designed hollow-point cast bullets expand at subsonic revolver velocities without requiring +P charges.The standard of terminal performance from a concealable .38 Special service revolver was for many years the so-called “FBI load.” It featured a 158-grain all-lead,

This is a short excerpt from "Cast Bullets for Beginners& Experts" was written by Ken Mollohan. This has mostly to do with Lyman and other iron/steel molds with Lyman-style alignment pins. I know little about maintaining aluminum or brass molds. Any trace of oil or grease on a mold will smoke and cause severe wrinkling of the bullets. Consequently, all molds must b

The "SKS Match Rifle" written by Ed Doonan was published in the Mar/Apr 1996 #120, issue of the Fouling Shot.You may think this title is an oxymoron and, to a certain extent, you would be right. But, you can make your SKS shoot well enough with cast bullets to be competitive in our 100-yard offhand matches at Wind Hill Range. I got an SKS because they are cheap, because

The portion of the book, "Cast Bullets for Beginners& Expert" by Joe Brennen Jr., was written by Ric Bowman. There are several reasons to lap bullet moulds: new moulds with machining errors and burrs, corrosion and stains, equalizing volumes of multi-cavity moulds and casting problems. Other than for casting problems, most lapping has been done for cosmetic appearance and for

The following was taken from The Fouling Shot No. 19, April 1979 and was written by Frank Marshall Jr.The .25-20-86, .32-40-165 and 38-55-255 created such an impression among riflemen during the fabulous blackpowder era into the smokeless schuetzen period that even today, mention of these legendary rounds con­jures images of thumbnail sized groups. My Uncle Will was not immune to

This article was written by Ed Doonan in the Mar/Apr 1999, #138 issue of the Fouling Shot. In so much of cast bullet shooting we violate the first rule of solving engineering problems - we don’t understand the problem. So it is with gas checks; we know the effect gas checks have, but we don’t know the how or the why. Until we understand the HOW and WHY it is nearly impossible to m

CBA member, by Tom Davis of Carnegie, PA wrote this article in 2005 and it was published in the July/Aug #176 issue of the Fouling Shot. I acquired my first Swedish Model 1867 Rolling Block rifle in early 2002. I once had a rare Norwegian one, but it was museum-quality and I would not have felt right shooting it, so I sold it to a well-known author of rolling block books inst

This short excerpt was taken from the 3rd edition, vol. 1 of the "Cast Bullets for Beginners& Expert" by Joseph F. Brennen Jr. and published by the Cast Bullet Association. 4.3.2 HOW TO BUMP BULLETS IN THE LUBRICATOR/SIZER I have only used the Lyman 45 and 450 Lubricator/Sizers, but understand that the Saeco and RCBS machines will also bump bullets. The problem with bumping bullet

This article was written by the late, longtime CBA member, Ken Mollohan and was published in the July/Aug 1997, #128 issue of the Fouling Shot.Upset in cast bullets has been around a long time. Early experimenters, using muzzle loading ri­fles, tried many schemes to force undersized balls to expand and take the rifling, but a Frenchman, Cap­tain E. C. Minie had the first real success.