JeffinNZ
06-15-2009, 06:03 AM
Team.
Some time back I was fortunate enough to secure a Lyman 39538 .40cal hollow base, 124gr bullet mold from a fellow board member. The bullets cast at .396 in 40-1 alloy so to make them fit my Colerain barrel on my caplock I paper patch them with two wraps of 9lb onion skin paper taking the girth out to .403 which is a nice fit.
Sunday I was at the monthly MLer shoot and had the chance to briefly do some berm mining and recovered two of my bullets from a past shoot. Here they are with a patched Minie and a bare bullet.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Shooting%20stuff/DSCN1003.jpg
You can see how the bottom two driving bands have slugged up into the grooves (.424) and how the bullets have shortened. The nose band slugged up to .40 neat. They shot REALLY well for me over 30gr of Swiss 3Fg for 1500fps.
This is 3 shots at 50m/55y.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Shooting%20stuff/DSCN0591-1.jpg
Oh, incidentally, they fit nicely in the hollow base of a .58 Minie!!! :lol::lol:
Some time back I was fortunate enough to secure a Lyman 39538 .40cal hollow base, 124gr bullet mold from a fellow board member. The bullets cast at .396 in 40-1 alloy so to make them fit my Colerain barrel on my caplock I paper patch them with two wraps of 9lb onion skin paper taking the girth out to .403 which is a nice fit.
Sunday I was at the monthly MLer shoot and had the chance to briefly do some berm mining and recovered two of my bullets from a past shoot. Here they are with a patched Minie and a bare bullet.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Shooting%20stuff/DSCN1003.jpg
You can see how the bottom two driving bands have slugged up into the grooves (.424) and how the bullets have shortened. The nose band slugged up to .40 neat. They shot REALLY well for me over 30gr of Swiss 3Fg for 1500fps.
This is 3 shots at 50m/55y.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Shooting%20stuff/DSCN0591-1.jpg
Oh, incidentally, they fit nicely in the hollow base of a .58 Minie!!! :lol::lol: