“For me”, H110 / 296 is a hunting type powder only. And if you ever test primers, you will be amazed how you get ANY low SD with the lack of consistency from primer to primer. The colder it is, the...
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“For me”, H110 / 296 is a hunting type powder only. And if you ever test primers, you will be amazed how you get ANY low SD with the lack of consistency from primer to primer. The colder it is, the...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
People can be disappointed if they don’t have confidence. See, lead gains strength with diameter too.
But you can always test it. Go to the local meat shop and pick up some large beef bones. ...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
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We all have to learn. Just make sure you have a good pair of tennis shoes. :popcorn:
Forum: Cast Boolits
A complicated subject better understood if you follow the firearm / lead history and “why” folks did what they did.
Hardness is easier to understand when you define it. “Hard” is any BHN number...
Forum: Cast Boolits
You can answer your own question. Just be honest with yourself and your expectations. If you simply want a cheaper substitute bullet, just buy your bullets. Casting should be enjoyable or done to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
That baby is beautiful. But as an American it is your RIGHT to waste environmentally unfriendly LEAD.
If you set that mold on the window sill, water it once a week, and pray to the mold gods,...
Did you check the length of the free bore in your throat? FYI: Coarse diameter can make a difference, but the length of my throat is almost .300 from the front of the case to the rifling taper at...
Forum: Leverguns
If ya can’t win FAIR in life, …. CHEAT! Since it’s all in the launch, the bigger the bore, the more wind you catch. And each caliber and gun in that diameter is different. To keep your sanity and...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Figured you had a reason. I …. can’t use that platform without causing me …. problems. Too many bad memories best left in the past. If you can afford to these days, Professor Gun is still the best...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Person needs to do what they have to if it solves a problem “for them”.
I could only find a single requirement that just cranking up the velocity a tad wouldn’t solve. That is the dangerous...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Was that an Archie Bunker quote? (BIG GRIN)
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hardness is relative to design, weight, and strike velocity. Every design and hardness has a minimum and a maximum effective range. That minimum and maximum range will change based upon the shot you...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Well crap, that’s the fun of it. Bad news though, not enough gun is not solved with a perfect design.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I can tell ya my secret if you promise not to tell anyone else.
Load more than one in your gun.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Congrats. Now you need 5000 primers to set that off!
Better take out a loan.
Forum: Cast Boolits
At this point, you are wasting time and money. Let’s eliminate a variable, is it the gun or the ammunition? Take a single case and load and fire it five times or as many as you want. That will...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If you haven’t found the issue, I would weigh each case. If the weights are off by more than 3 grains, investigate why. Seems another fella had trouble with inconsistent neck diameters in that...
Forum: Cast Boolits
My Remmy hates bore rides unless you fit them well and use normal cast level loads. Mine’s a 90s production with thin rifling. (poor support?). Had to use a conventional cast design.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
It is an old design created to solve a problem just like most older designs. It was made for 94 Win, 30-30s when they had no throat, so that the base wouldn’t enter the case. I used it in my 1950...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Load one chamber with a heavy jacket bullet, the next with a wadcutter, throw in a powder coat, then a light lead slug with no lube, and then a midrange load, you will find that you can still shoot a...
Fun, huh? Expensive too.
There are two methods that work(ed) for me over time. You can either retrain (force) your muscle memory which takes a boat load of ammunition and practice often to...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Depends. You are launching a projectile into turbulence caused by air at the sound barrier. That requires that air flow be established before the base of the bullet exits the barrel and why it...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |