Any love for the 7mm Lee C285-130-R

[Cane_man]

anyone cast the Lee C285-130-R for their 7mm-08? looking for insights on casting/loading/shooting this boolit... the good, bad, and ugly, thanks :coffee:

http://leeprecision.com/images/P/p-2846.jpg

[cheetah]

In a Waters it works well,(1.5 min) down low - no size, tumble. I cut the check diameter away and use it from 1000 to 1400 with Trailboss.

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

I wanted to try one, but its not fat enough for my over-bored Handi Rifle.
If the nose section bore rides your barrel and you can obtain a good OAL
it should shoot great

[Wally]

I shoot it in the 7mm Rem Mag and it is very accurate out to 200 yards w/ 15.0 Grains of Unique.

[geargnasher]

Very good, IF your bore is small enough like Jim F. wrote above. I had a 7mm-08 Savage barrel that was mostly shot-out, bore about .280 and groove about .2835". The nose never touched a thing but I got 2" groups all day long at over 2600 fps (had to push it to 200K RPM just to see what would happen), even with rifling that shallow. It shouldn't be, based on what some people like me think we know, but it turns out to be a pretty dang good boolit.

Gear

[Harter66]

It shot ok in an ol'7x57 1908 Ovidio Mauser. It shot well enough in the 7x6.8 Carcano also. I may try it in 280AI soon to.

[Cane_man]

this boolit looks pretty short, so there should be no issues with seating the gas check below the neck?

[quilbilly]

I have used mine in a 7mm TCU carbine for probably 10 years. It is a great shooter routinely getting just under MOA at 100 yards and from my terminal ballistics tests would be a great deer boolit if I wasn't exclusively hunting deer in this state with a muzzleloader. I have taken coyotes out to 300 yards with it. The load is just under 20 gr. of 4198 so is not hot. No problems gas checking them.

[1Shirt]

Like a lot of other Lee rifle boolits, the 130gr. 7MM, is not a real looker. However, in my 7x57 Ruger, it is a super shooter from 1200 fps up to 2100 or so, which is as high as I have pushed it.
1Shirt!

[45-70 Chevroner]

I used it in my 7MM TCU Contender it worked good but I had to seat it long though, to keep the base of the slug at the neck junction. I did end up selling the TCU barrel though, there was something else I thought I needed more, bad mistake.

[Hamish]

I have shot a fair amount of silhouettes with it in the 7TCU, my shooting partner pushed a few more than that in the 7-08 in an xp-100. Deer die pretty quick with it when poked with it. I have no complaints whatsoever about it. Personal opinion is that Lee needs to make a companion to it about 20gr heavier with a flat point.

[rmatchell]

I to have been looking at this mold for my 1895 mauser. The only thing holding me back is the weight.

[Cane_man]

my mold drops at 0.285, is this going to be a little too small?

[rmatchell]

Have you slugged your barrel yet?

I would be guessing here without knowing your gun, but if shot unsized you might be fine.

[kbstenberg]

Cane Man You could beagle the mold.

[Cane_man]

^^^, that might be an option for sure... i just need to shoot these first and see how they perform, then make changes as needed... i am just looking for a practice boolit, 2 MOA at 100 yards would be fine with me