CharlieBrassStuffer

I bought an RCBS custom seating die set for my .30-06 back in 1979 and it was pretty affordable then, but…nowadays they are pretty expensive. What if there was a way to make your custom micrometer seating die do more than one caliber? Would that be a good idea? Save a few bucks too? If […]

Ok boys, thought I’d do a little video today to show you’all how easy and cheap it is to make your own targets and specific to your purposes. Standard bullseye targets get real old real fast and if you want them to show clean cut holes then you need a good target backer to go […]

If you made it through Pistol Load Workups . . . . part one . . . . a response to Nathan @ The Reloading Press , then you are ready to see the actual workup on my Lyman T-Mag II Turret Press. The Turret Press is one of the most versatile presses one can have […]

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 […]

Some say he’s crafty…innovative…a forward thinker… …but, I say he invents stuff to play with my mind! Take for instance his latest video… An easy way to cut jacketed bullets from range scrap for casting In this video he shows his latest greatest invention to cut the jackets of range scrap so that they will […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Back in the day… Back when I was contracting in the industrial field I used to use magnets to hold my control diagrams to the side of a machine or its control cabinet when I was troubleshooting or modifying something…there was nowhere to place things in a working industrial environment as you need to stay […]

Here I build a 4 piece mould to shape the top of the cheek riser. 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 […]

Setting up a test to investigate why I got such believable high numbers when it should have been apparent that there was a ‘big mistake’. 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 […]

Eli, TheRevolverguy aka Dayattherange has sent me an absolutely awesome gift, take a look and hear the back story behind all this. 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 […]

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.

I have a walnut filled vibratory cleaner & a Thumblers model B tumbler filled with the stainless steel pins and have been using both for many years now. However lately I’ve been practicing with the .45ACP and having to make lots of reloads to keep up with the practice. I was looking for a quick […]

I was going through some old targets… When I found this old target where I was comparing my handloads to some factory ammunition I had on hand in 2014. This target was the result of a month’s worth of work having gone around in circles trying to figure the dynamics of barrel vibrations/harmonics and trying […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

This Hollow Point has been a lot of work getting the speed and the lead blend just right for testing penetration in the GEL block. 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 […]

A video with a few 'hints & tips' about the way I cast .38/.357 FWC's; figuring how much lead to blend, weighing it out, setting up the lead pot w/PID and mould oven and casting good casts from the first pour.

With the netting hanging down straight…let’s see where the brass will go. Can I add an actual catcher and keep the brass off the ground? Can I make it simple and quick to set up also…take a look and we’ll figure this bugger out… CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS grad, some college, no degrees, served in the […]

This is a test tube for testing cast HP projectiles. For years I’ve used a much smaller test pipe, a 10 foot 4″ PVC conduit and it’s been difficult in many aspects…now we build a test tube we can work with much easier. 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, […]

Yup…Video Editing…hey boys I was born before the muscle car era…we didn’t have no ‘stinking computers’! Ya know fellas, I got tired of passing on every subject I wanted to tackle on video with the iPhone 4 and editing software on my Mac…you boys have been putting some great video out and I’ve felt like […]