22 Bator received

[meteorology]

Hi, I have just received the 22 Bator mold, $18.08 for the mold, total bill $54.94 to include postage to UK. But .223 is getting past £20 per hundred heads now, I guess about $36/100.

I knocked out over 100 today and shall load them with Red Dot 4 - 6 Gr and shoot them through my five shot Brno rifle on the 25 mtr target range.

Found them a bit big at .225/6 so have put them through a steel circle that a friend made at .224 with some Alox coating.

Will finish making them up tomorrow, if it doesn't snow on Friday and is not too cold, will shoot them on the range.

Will report speed and amout.

Cheers

John S.

[NoZombies]

Good Luck John!

I would advise that if the loaded ammo will chamber with the bullets at .225 or .226 you might experience better accuracy than if you size them down to .224. If they need to be .224 to chamber, then that's what you'll have to do, but I would at least try to see if you can get away without sizing them down so much before you spend the time doing something that might actually hinder accuracy.

[runfiverun]

225 is the size i use in my 223-22-250 stuff.

[badbob454]

Hi, I have just received the 22 Bator mold, $18.08 for the mold, total bill $54.94 to include postage to UK. But .223 is getting past £20 per hundred heads now, I guess about $36/100.

I knocked out over 100 today and shall load them with Red Dot 4 - 6 Gr and shoot them through my five shot Brno rifle on the 25 mtr target range.

Found them a bit big at .225/6 so have put them through a steel circle that a friend made at .224 with some Alox coating.

Will finish making them up tomorrow, if it doesn't snow on Friday and is not too cold, will shoot them on the range.

Will report speed and amout.

Cheers

John S.

happy shooting and welcome to the forum the 22 bator is a nice inexpensive mold i have cast hundreds of nice boolits with very few rejects ... happy shootin badbob