Sizing to fit a Stop Ring bullet for conventional use .
The only thing I hate worse than a sale with nothing I need is when there's a sale and what I want is available but wrong for my needs .
Enter the NOE 32/8mm sale .....
Normally I'd be excited to have a sale on pointy bullets , but my needs are changing . That and I really don't need a 215+ gr in a 32 Rem (very similar to the 32 Win Spl ) , I suspect it wouldn't stabilize anyway . What I want for it is an FP for a tube mag slide action .
This stop ring bullet has 5 bands and the top 2 are .334 to go with the .322 lower bands . The nose is good for the M14 Rem but the .334 is a size down of .011 I use a .323 (true) dia Lee push through for this rifle and a .325-6 won't chamber so I'm walking a razors edge already .......this feels like if you have to ask you already know the answer ......... The rifle shoots a PB 325-175 (170?) 2R well enough at jacketed speeds for 50 -75 yd pigs which was what I needed at the time I was working up the rifle . I stayed with the 2r mostly because it was available ,and I couldn't see spending $80-100 on a mould when they could be had for $20............darn dumb kids anyway . So I'm smarter now , get it and I'm in a place where I don't have to make do for now .
On to the question .
The 322-180 SR looks like the cats pajamas for this except for the .334 bands . If I size the bands down , grooves full of lube etc in one pass is it likely I'll blow the base with an HT softened WW alloy at 16-18 bhn ?
Would I be better off to wait for the right bullet ?
Maybe size the Lee from .326 butt first making a faux flat nose ?
Maybe I'm just tired ?
Link to the bullet ......
http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/product...rohu7o4oihj5t3
