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This article was written by CBA member Jeff Brown, Christchurch, New Zealand and previously published on the website, Floyd Files - Complete Guide to Handloading.  One size doesn’t fit all. I talk from experience being 6 feet tall and 165 lb. wringing wet. Trust me; I know about these things. So when it comes to sprue plates on bullet moulds the same principle can

This article by By Mustafa Curtess of Austwell, TX, was published in the May/June #229 issue of The Fouling Shot.  I have come to agree with Ed Harris that Micro-Groove barrels can shoot cast bullets extremely well, but I only discovered this by accident.I have a M336 made for Sears, Roebuck. It had a 6-groove barrel marked “J.C. Higgins M45” that was completelyshot out, although t

This article was published in The Fouling Shot #192, March/ April 2008  Tales from the Back Creek Diary Re-visiting .30-’06 "Guard” and "Gallery Practice” Loads with Bullseye Powder By Ed Harris, Annandale, VA  Friends recently gave me several thousand pulled Cal. 30 Ball M2 (150-gr. FMJ) bullets and fired empty cases. These had been accumulated from DCM .30-’06 ammun

This article written by Nick Croyle appeared in the March/ April 2012 #216 issue of the Fouling Shot.  In a trade with Ed Harris, I wound up with an unusual mold by Erik Ohlen (www.hollowpointmold.com). It’s an extractor bar hollow base conversion of an RCBS double-cavity, 142 gr. DEWC for the .38 Special. With Erik’s extractor bar conversion, using it requires only a sec

We continue to grow with a just over 1 per day average of new CBA members. For those of you not aware of it, we have a listing on eBay in the reloading "bullet molds" category. It ran for about two weeks and during that time we had 2 new memberships purchased. Then eBay in their infinite wisdom, suspended the listing for about a month while we submitted more info about the CBA. However w