311440 GB mold performance

[TCLouis]

Anyone shooting the boolits out of that 6 banger mold. IF they are shooting well with big old flat nose, they seem like a natural for converting deer to supper.

What has been your results as far as accuracy and velocity?

[Beau Cassidy]

As with all of my GB molds, it is still NIB.

[Bret4207]

Gotta whole can full waiting to be loaded. 308,30WCF,303 Savage, 32-20 and maybe the 303 or 7.65 Argentine can use it. What a stomper looking booilt!

[Pop Gun]

In using this design from the early 60s on, this bullet has never set any accuracy records for me in anything I ever tried it in. Especially if you stompped it. Or I should say that it could always be bested accuracy wise at higher velocities. But that wasn't why it was used.

My wife loves that bullet. Probably because it looks so much like her these days. [smilie=1: She uses this in her 06 at about 2100 fps (28grains of RL7) and is satisfied with it's work on deer with the broad side shots she only takes out to a maximum of 120 yards. Initial impact and shock are high. The wide meplat shroones quickly. And the light weight allows it to slow dramatically transfering it's energy. Usually velocity is low enough on the exit that bleeding is immediate should tracking be necessary. The lungs just pour out.

If broad side shots are all you take up to that distance, they .... don't get any better. If you want more range or different shot angles, then I would go with more weight myself.

[Newtire]

I concur with Pop gun. I have tried that bullet and seems there's always another that's a bit better in the accuracy dept. I would think it would be a great short range deer smacker but have not and probably won't get the chance to try it out that way.

[MT Gianni]

I shot two whitetail with it last year. BLR 308 @2200 fps. I think that was too fast as I saw too much bullet break up. I would slow them down to 2000 to be more effective. This grouped at 1 1/2" @ 100 yds, plent ok for a cast hunting load in my standards. Both of these deer were shot at under 75 yards and went less than 20 yards. I am trying to use it in an NEF 7.62x39 but have lee dies and bullet seating nose shape issues. I have ordered a nose from a 30-30 die that should be fine but it hasn't arrived yet. Gianni.

[Leftoverdj]

I've been doing a little work with it. In 7.62x39, 16 grains of WC 820 and aircooled WW sized .313 goes into an inch at 50 yards. .308 does about the same with the bullets sized .309 and oven treated. That charge was 38.0 grains of WC 846. My batch is on the fast side and very close to H 335.