With a .360 ball and a .005 patch, will I be able to cram them in the cylinders with just a starter? I would assume so, since I can start a .490 ball with a .005 patch by hand, but I'm .003 smaller...
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Forum: Muzzleloading.
With a .360 ball and a .005 patch, will I be able to cram them in the cylinders with just a starter? I would assume so, since I can start a .490 ball with a .005 patch by hand, but I'm .003 smaller...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Chambers measure 367 x 5 and one at 368. That pretty much means a patched .360 ball or two only, yes...which is 000 buck?
How about some homebrew rifling, is that possible?
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Forum: Muzzleloading.
So I'd be better off measuring the chambers before ordering the mold just in case they're large. Thanks Cheer
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Toot, from what I've read, it's not even a reproduction, it's just a 51 with no barrel or loading rod and an elongated cylinder.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I looked at the .375 balls, but I'd need some sort of loading rig for those, and that seems like a lot of work for something that might miss the berm entirely. Hoping I can do this with my starter...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I was watching John Wick last night, got bored, found a Pietta Pepperbox for sale and bought it.
Spent today watching some videos and reading some threads, not much info out there.
Sounds like...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If you do some searching around, either here or on the 458 forum, you'll find my 4" groups at 50 yards with that Lee 340 mold. I just sold it, nothing I could do would bring it to acceptable levels...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I think for now I'll just keep using the 340 Lee sized down to .452 in the Casull, but I still need a mold for the 458 SOCOM. I went on Mountain Molds and basically made a lead copy of Hornady's FTX...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Sorry, but I can't attribute this round of failures to temperature. Last attempt it was probably 70 or 80 degrees out, same results. I know it's a 468 page thread, and it's not your job to remember...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
It was probably in the low 30s when I started, all done outside. Coated them cold, warmed them on the oven until they felt warm and smelled bad after about ten minutes drying in the cold, then...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Think I've got a bottle of that stuff somewhere, I'll give it a try. It'll be a while, it's like 11 degrees outside, but I'll check back in.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
That's troubling. Wheel weights are all I've got, all I've ever used. Any chance it's our crappy water? Tons of calcium in it, maybe it's closing up the pores of the lead when I quench?
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Those flakes in my picture are crispy, like corn flakes, you can pinch them and they make a noise and break. Is that normal?
It's the light, and poor focus. Those boolits are wheel weights with...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Ok, I'm back again, and my coating attempts have failed again. The 230gr 45s shown below were coated the same as the one in my quote, but baked around 360 degrees for a little over 10 minutes. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Think I'm gonna go with Mountain Molds and their designer, but I'm pretty short on designing boolit experience, any pointers? Going TC with a long nose and slightly small meplat, gas check, lube...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Well, after a pretty thorough search of the internet, there's no such boolit mold out there as what I'm after. There's a guy on the 458 forum that had one made by mountain moulds, it's a TC bore...
Forum: Cast Boolits
241, I didn't measure them pre-sizing, but running them through the .452 sizing die was cake and they barely changed, and they do come out at .452 now.
Rebel, yes, it chambers 410 bore, 45 Colt,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I've lubed every coated boolit I've ever fired, including ones that I purchased already HiTek'd. These are the first ones to ever under-perform, the rest just went faster. Here's my most recent...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I still lube my coated boolits. I don't trust my ability to coat yet, I keep having problems with HiTek. They also say not to size prior to coating, so yes, I cast/coat/alox/size .457-.454-.452....
Forum: Cast Boolits
After mulling it over a bit, maybe using the 340s for both my 458 SOCOM and the 454 Casull isn't that bad of an idea. It's been working so far, although the accuracy in my 458 is ****, like 8 MOA. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Using AA9, don't think I'm burning it all, either. I was a bit surprised at that speed as well, maybe I do just need to go to a heavier boolit and slow them down. Think a 300 PB would do?
Forum: Cast Boolits
The 255s are doing about 2K, the 340s I've only run up to about 1300.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Chronograph was showing about 2K. Alloy is wheel weights with a splash of tin, dropped in water. I'll measure throats and pulled boolits and such and get back to you all, thanks.
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 |