Years ago, maybe 40 years ago, I was offered an original Sharps Carbine, YUP the real thing, it hangs on the wall and is admired, but never shot.
There are more than a few others, but only because there are so many.
That is the orginal design of George Lugar's cartridge.
http://leeprecision.com/mold-6-cav-356-120-tc.html
http://www.lymanproducts.com/lyman/bullet-casting/mould-details.php?entryID=4
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A gas check is a device used in some types of firearms ammunition. Gas checks are used when non-jacketed bullets are used in high pressure cartridges, to prevent the...
I have experienced galling of steel dies by nickel cases and seen the nickel stripped off the case causing the galling.
Never had any problems with carbide dies. No problems of any kind. But then most bottle neck dies are steel. YMMV
Being as I have 10's of thousands of most of the calibers I reload for, I rarely need to reload at the range unless I'm benching or testing.
Tumbling takes up none of my time, it runs at night as I sleep.
Not real sure about that.
You claim the dies scratch the brass, right? For the dies to scratch the dies they need to have a projection on the inside of the die surface. A scratch is a depression on the surface of the brass case, right? So in fact you are likely having a build up of nickel on...
Once again, using Brasso after the ammonia has dried off leaving only the polishing compound is not harmfully at all.
But then why not just use a polishing compound in the first place, or a cap full of whatever auto polish one has left in the garage?
They all work well.