Has anyone read the S&W Model 69 article by Brian Pearce in Handloader, December 2014? What is a Lymnan 429255GC bullet? Did I miss something or is this an old design? I haven't read Handloader in a few years but the cover really got my attention so I purchased the magazine. If I buy a 69, it will have been worth the $6.
Also, Brian Pearce makes referrence to Winchester 231 as "a good powder, but it is costly to produce...". I didn' know that. What makes it so?
Thanks,
mark

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Thanks for the information. Is it much different than Lyman 429244?

I ASSUME IT IS AS MY BULLET WEIGH 255 GRAINS.

Thank you

Mark I have that bullet in a 4 cavity IDEAL mold so it is an old design. J.Michael

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Hobie

WHO DOESN'T?? READERS OFTEN QUESTION HOW I CAN SEEMINGLY AFFORD SO MANY GUNS. WELL I'VE NEVER SMOKED NOR DRANK. I FIGURE THAT IS $200,000 OVER A LIFETIME. LIVED IN THE SAME HOUSE FOR 45 YEARS; NO MORTGAGE PAYMENTS. DRIVE A 1997 CHEVY 4X4 AND DIAMOND DOT HAS A 2000 DODGE CARAVAN. NO CAR PAYMENTS. PAY OFF CREDIT CARDS EVERY MONTH; NO INTEREST PAYMENTS. SUPPORT CHURCH AND CHARITIES AND IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO COME BACK TO ME.

Cars depreciate, cigarettes kill you-slowly. Guns will outlast our grandchildren and keep our nation free if we pass on that heritage. I have a good friend who quite smoking years ago, put his cigarette money in the safe and once a year with the money bought a new Model 70 and scope, 100 pieces of brass to fireform to that rifle alone,dies, bullets and components, worked up a load, killed a deer or two and then retired it, and next year did the same. He has a very nice collection of Model 70's as well as several other firearms purchased from quitting the cancer sticks. Not to mention he's a lot healthier than he would be had he just kept smoking.

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