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siamese4570
11-15-2006, 11:03 AM
I'm in what seems to be the eternal process of getting my mosin nagant 91/30 to shoot. The barrel is a little rough, so I've ordered the stuff to firelap it. Once that is corrected, I'm going to try cast bullets in it. Does anybody out there have the lyman 314299 mold? This seems to be the only mold that throws a .314 bullet. My bore dia. is "313-"3135, so that diameter should work. I'd like to try a few of these before I buy the mold. Can I work out a deal with one of you folks to get a few of these to try? I'd appreciate it!

Siamese4570
NVcurmudgeon
11-15-2006, 02:37 PM
siamese4570, I can fix you up with some 314299 boolits cast of WW +2% tin. Raw castings or sized .314" and alox lubed? PM me your snail address.
Larry Gibson
11-15-2006, 05:32 PM
siamese4570

If ya get some 314299s from NVcurmudgeon try them with 27-28 gr of 4895 with a 1/2 gr dacron filler. Velocity runs a little over 1800 fps out of my M91/28T and accuracy is 1 to 1 1/2 MOA at 100 yards.

Interesting name (siamese4570); here's a couple pictures of mine.

Larry Gibson
JDL
11-15-2006, 08:46 PM
Larry, just a stupid question I guess but, why is your scope turned 90 degrees? BTW, nice rifle. -JDL
Larry Gibson
11-15-2006, 09:20 PM
Larry, just a stupid question I guess but, why is your scope turned 90 degrees? BTW, nice rifle. -JDL

Not stupid at all. As you can see the scope (a Leupold Compact 2.5X with heavy duplex) is mounted low. By rotating the scope 90 degrees it gets the turret out of the way for loading those big cartridges, perhaps in a hurry, and to prevent any sort of stovepipe on ejection. When zeroing you just have to remember that right is up, left is down, up is left and down is right...seems confusing but it's not.

The Lee 500 gr cast is loaded to 2000 fps and the Barnes 400 gr SP is running at 2300 fps. They both let you know you've pulled a trigger considering the rifle weighs 9 lbs loaded.

Larry Gibson