45acp cast

[bigchicano]

I recently bought 500 cast 45acp that were supposed to be 230gr but when put on my scale they all range between 240 to 250. Anyone have a clue as to what weight I should set them at? 230, 240 or 250?:confused:

[9.3X62AL]

Assume "worst case scenario" and set load for 250 grain boolits. I'm assuming here that your scale is in good order via check-weights. A ten-grain spread in cast weight is pretty high, most of my castings (home-poured and commercial) seldom exceed 1% weight variance.

[KCSO]

If you really have a 10 grain variance I would put those back in the pot. 10 grains suggests eithe bullets from different alloys or tremendous voids, either way I would not expect any good results from those.

[jjamna]

I think i would recast. I just cast some 45 230 grain and they were not over 1 grain apart, most within .04 of each other. Mold is 230 grain roundnose and they weighed right at 230.04 to 230.06

[Char-Gar]

If you "bought" a mess of cast bullets with a 10 grain spread of weights, try and get you money back. That variance would not be "commercial acceptable".

[mtgrs737]

+1 on what Chargar said, way too much variance.

[walltube]

Toss 'em in the pot. If they are the "hard cast" type, add some pure lead or WW to suit.

Been there, done that with 'bargain boolits" at a gun show's waning moments. :-)

[Sundogg1911]

Were these factory cast? Usually they're right on the money (at least in my experience) My cast are usually a little under weight because I cast a little harder (more lino) than the moulds (at least the Lymans with number 2 alloy) say they will. That's alse a pretty big variance for a .45 bullet. You might want to take them back where you got them for a refund.