Rockydog
11-28-2011, 10:54 PM
Thanks to many members of this site I took my first cast boolit deer last week using a 45-70 Handi-Rifle. I harvested a nice mature doe at about 110 yards with a 405gr FN bullet cast from 50/50 WW and pure lead with a pinch of tin. I loaded it over 49 grains of IMR4895. My first shot missed but the deer did not spook and I connected with a shot that broke both shoulders and dropped it instantly. No bloodshot meat at all. I could have thrown the bullet holes in the grinder.
It really was a cast boolits effort with mr mom providing me with a bottom pour Lee pot as a gift and Slingshot loaning me his mold and giving me 20 45-70 cases. I used Junior's 411 lube with JT8 Lithium Grease.
The help and advice I've gotten from fryboy, cyberguy, rainyday, and Steel13 as well as the guys listed above were invaluable in this and a half dozen other cast projects that I started over the last two years. I'm sure I've left a couple of guys out that I swapped and traded with.
At any rate it was the most exciting deer I've shot in a few years. Thanks, RD
It really was a cast boolits effort with mr mom providing me with a bottom pour Lee pot as a gift and Slingshot loaning me his mold and giving me 20 45-70 cases. I used Junior's 411 lube with JT8 Lithium Grease.
The help and advice I've gotten from fryboy, cyberguy, rainyday, and Steel13 as well as the guys listed above were invaluable in this and a half dozen other cast projects that I started over the last two years. I'm sure I've left a couple of guys out that I swapped and traded with.
At any rate it was the most exciting deer I've shot in a few years. Thanks, RD