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Recently snagged this 140 gr double cavity mould at a garage sale. To my eyes the nose looks more like a truncated cone than a SWC, thought it might be a good design for plinking up to 100yds/m or...

OK, it's a No.4 Lee-Enfield we're talking about - mosinman saavy now!

skeet1 and nicholst55, thanks for jogging some old synapses loose. I do recall Savage producing lots of No.4s for WW2, now...

OK, this is probably a dumb question, but here goes anyway:

DIRT Farmer, what is a #4 Savage?

Can't find anything in Savage Arms production data about a #4, or No. 4 Model anything :confused:
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More specifically, how clean does an abused, worn, pitted old military rifle bore need to be before one can expect reasonably good accuracy with PPs from it?

I have a couple of old clunkers that...

Great idea! Will have to file this one away for future reference.

My Mosin has light pitting along the entire bore, this should be an effective treatment for it.



mosinman

Mohave60,

Can find no such warning on my bottle of SC . Std OP for most of my cleaned rifles is a wet patch of SC or Hoppe's down the bore, no harm has ever been done.

Maybe you were thinking...

Hi All,

It's well known that a lot of the L-E battle rifles have bores that are well worn, or rusted, or abused/neglected, etc. And yet, these same old warhorses still manage to deliver...

If I missed it in this long thread I apologize, but has anyone mentioned chamfering case mouths before the flaring step?

mosinman

Count me out. I'm already in on the NOE 314008 GB that begins production in mid-November. The 314008 should serve my purposes as well or better than 311465.

Having said that, I think 311465 is...

Al,

Please make change in my order #34, 2 cavity, 1GC, 1PB.

Change .314 dia. to .316 dia.

Thanks,...Jim (mosinman)

Yesterday I received my unopened order envelope from The Bull Shop in AK, originally mailed from my address on 8-19.

Under the Bull Shop address is a yellow sticker by the P.O. dated 8-31 that...

geargnasher, thanks for the Sprayway info.

Couldn't find it at any of the big auto parts stores, best move is to contact Sprayway directly for dealers in your area. Have a can of #945 on order...

geargnasher, is that Sprayway product #946 silicone spray in the red can? They have two different silicones, and #936 appears to be a different lube.

Where can you buy this stuff?

Can I...

Egostomus,

The MidwayUSA site has the Fiocchi ammo available and ready to ship.

Bullets may be an issue, consider the Lee C309-120-R, paper patched and sized to whatever your chamber throat...

Particularly interested in Lee GC designs, C309-150-F thru C309-200-R in ".31" rifles like .303 B, 7.62X54R, 7.7 J, 7.65 Arg/Belg, etc.

There seem to be enough PPers here that use this unorthodox...

I'd be interested if a FN configuration is possible AND if both GC and PB can be had in the same mould.

Would also want it available in .314 and .316


mosinman

If you're using unsized brass, you might partially resize the case near the mouth, about 1/4" to 3/8" should do it. If you have any unfired rounds with this load, you could remove the decapper from...

Actually, a shorter, low pressure cartridge like .38 S&W or .38 Short Colt with a case canellure could be used as a reference for seating the ball deeply in .38 Spl / 357 Mag. The canellure would be...

ROTFLMAO!!! :lol: :happy dance: :lol:

I'm starting to rethink the loading procedure for round balls. Seating the ball at the case mouth leaves a LOT of empty room for that tiny powder charge to drift around, thereby causing ignition...

FWFL? Whazzat? :)

Would like to cook up some short range plinking loads using round balls from the Lee .360 dia. #90418 mould. I recall some .38 Spl loads in Handloader's Digest circa 1960s that used a single 000...

Anyone out there have any plinking/gallery loads for round balls in military rifles?

I'm particularly interested in your rifle RB loading methods, such as:

Alloy type

Bullet lube type
...

I'd like a 2 cavity, 1 GC, 1 PB, .314

thanks,

mosinman

Use caution with Skeeter Skelton's .38 Spl/2400 loads, he developed them years ago for his .357 Mag. revolvers when .357 brass was hard to find. They have pressures in the .357 range and are too hot...