CharlieBrassStuffer

Once carried by the Police Departments around the US, they called this the 'Super Police Load' ... Cops universally referred to this cast round as the 'Pelvis Breaker' ... you will see why in this video ... it is a 'Slow Freight Train' .

This is the first time, to my knowledge…that a Chronograph has ever been used to clock the speed of a cast Hollow Point ‘EXITING’ a jug of water after expansion. The projectile entered the jug at 908 Feet Per Second and exited at 450 FPS. Now that may not seem significant to many of you […]

What does our work say we are doing? I cast for a long time before I really understood what I was doing…heck, you just melt some lead and pour it in a mould…right? If the bullet gods are smiling on you everything goes well. If not…hmmm…maybe I wasn’t holding my mouth right? How do you […]

A NEW PRODUCT available @TheReloadersNetwork.com in the store. This will revolutionize the way you handle the 20X power measuring scope…save time and frustration making delicate dimple measurements. My hat is off to James…’Loads Of Bacon‘ for his design, engineering and printing of this amazing ‘Measuring Scope Stand’. Thanks for watching, be kind to your neighbors […]

Powder coating is a well accepted process today for putting a jacketed lube coating on your casts…it’s been demonstrated over and over again, especially the methods for batch baking that makes this job of work fast and easy. There’s one way, one of the original techniques that is pretty much frowned on these days because […]

In this casting video I wanted to throw in something I’ve never attempted before. Trying to handle 3 single cavity moulds in one casting session and 2 of them Hollow Point moulds, but there’s a caveat to that…two different blends of lead in the pots, one an 11BHN general purpose pistol fodder lead, and the […]

No POWER in the shop…No PROBLEM…it’s ‘Old School’ today using the turret, beam scale and a Lee dipper. Kenny at Eagle Eye Shooting sent me this old, out-of-production mould to enjoy. This is the old cast round that LE used to carry back in their ‘.38 Special wheel-gun’ days. They referred to it as a […]

These are tough times we are in these days boys ... stay ahead of the game, keep that head on a swivel & for goodness sakes . . . . 'WATCH THAT 6 !"

This is the next profile for the ‘HP Test Tube Series’ a four sided cavity… CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served in the US Marine Corps, educated there by the Navy in Electronics. Worked as an Electrician all my life and Contracted Heavy Industrial Control & Power Distribution for 20 years before […]

“Guess I’ll have’ta punt this one!” Years ago I saw a video on the You-Tube with a fella showing a steel target backstop/lead catcher and thought it was a good idea, but never got around to building one. This video was helpful to some extent, but it still lacked specific details I have been looking […]

Are you using a hot plate to pre-heat your moulds? Do you have trouble keeping the single cavity or the double cavity moulds on the plate and not falling off the edge? They just don’t have enough weight in the mould itself to counterbalance the handles, and when you shove the mould far enough onto […]

Our old powder dispensers don’t count loads, they don’t remember the last 50 loads you threw, yeah, they make noise too, and, most of them severely lack ‘bells and whistles’ but…as far as speed in delivery…they can match the fastest ‘New Fangled’ throws on the market! CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served […]

Showing all the set up details as I change the FWC profile from 148 gr. button top to a 160 gr. FWC by H.A. Nott & change powder weight …showing her run from all the angles…having a nice afternoon Dancing with Granny again. CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served in the US […]

Using the Lyman 452423 Keith Hollow Point, 234 grains, 8BHN with 8.6 grains of Unique inside a Starline case primed with a CCI-LPP. This’ll get’er done boys! It exited the jug at 440FPS and came close to a 1 inch mushroom. CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served in the US Marine Corps, […]

We had a fail with the ‘Tricorne’ in the jugs and I believe it was the small area of the 3 sided HP cavity being plugged by the plastic carton … maybe so maybe no, but this time I plugged the ‘Quad’ HP with Silicone…it’s ‘Controlled Expansion’ working at its best. CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, […]

This is an old single cavity, removable pin mould with a huge HP, actually it looks like a 147g. RNFP with a beveled base. I’ve wanted for some time to tinker with one of these ole girls and recently, accidentally stumbled onto one. This is what she looks like… From this picture sent to me […]

The Lyman 358311 RN description: 358311 Standard bullet for revolvers using .38 S. & W. Special and .38 Colt Special Cartridge. These two wide bands are strong and hold the rifling well. Case should be slightly crimped in bevel groove. (PlainBase, RoundNose, 158gr. – Top Punch is 311) The Abused Mould This is the shape […]

And now for something completely different...

This is a big ‘ThankQ to TinMan‘ for the very nice & near to my heart flag of “MERICA” . . . SHE WILL FOREVER FLY IN MY SHOP! Thank You Kurt….charlie CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served in the US Marine Corps, educated there by the Navy in Electronics. Worked as […]

Last installment on this build…in short…it works great! CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served in the US Marine Corps, educated there by the Navy in Electronics. Worked as an Electrician all my life and Contracted Heavy Industrial Control & Power Distribution for 20 years before retirement. Drive a black Chevy 4×4 and […]

Nathan over at The Reloading Press asked about the methodology various members use in our handloading schemes as we each do our ‘load workups’…this is, in several parts my way of doing a pistol or revolver load workup. Of course each platform requires different considerations, so…there’s no ‘hard and fast’ method I can explain in […]

Well boys, here it is . . . ‘Dancing with Granny’ dedicated to the patient and imaginative tinkerer handloaders who love old American Steel Machines, made in America machines that used to mesmerize us back in the day when most of the presses around were some variety of a single stage press. Granny is from […]

New Ingot Moulds from one of our fine members here on TRN … see why this shape of ingot mould matters. Soon to be World Famous…watch the video and see why they are so desirable. Thank you JoeDog! CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served in the US Marine Corps, educated there by […]

My friend Harry, from the 'Backyard Inventor' channel, has sent me a mould that will revolutionize the way I cast and test those castings for hardness. A simple modification to a Lee 2 cavity mould that will take all the laborious work from measuring Brinnel Hardness.