They seem like kind of small bullets to me, but I have cast up some of the Lee 140 grain 6.5 bullets to fool with in a bolt action. Fiddling around with a ballistics calculator suggests that on...
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Forum: Hunting with CB's
They seem like kind of small bullets to me, but I have cast up some of the Lee 140 grain 6.5 bullets to fool with in a bolt action. Fiddling around with a ballistics calculator suggests that on...
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Boy, I wish I had seen this thread sooner.
It is illegal to trap anything with a kill trap in my state, so the populations get to nuisance levels on some canals and ponds. We hunt them. I have...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I'd pick up a pound of H335 and do a ladder.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
The speer gold dot and 8208 are great, but you can't buy them right now. How about loads with what you can actually buy? I have used the Hornady 123 grain SST on deer at pretty far distances (big...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Yeah. Much easier playing these games in bolt actions.
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Interesting. I think I may abandon the idea. I can get 350 cast to shoot nice tight groups and of course Grendel its hard not to get a 1" or better group, albeit with jacketed.
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Brand new brass at Optics planet: https://www.opticsplanet.com/hornady-8604-rifle-204-ruger-brass-50.html?_iv_code=0H-RB1-RIFLE-CC-8600
Scroll down to see. Not exactly cheap, but I have not seen...
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mehavey, please let us know how you do in an AR.
As for the Rugers, I have shot a bunch of cast in a 350L RAR and picked up an American in 6.5 Grendel I really haven't put through its paces. I...
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I make allowances for 6.5 Grendel simply because I find it to be the perfect low recoil hunting cartridge, but yeah. A thumper like 450B is only attractive if cast will work. If not, no biggie I...
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What is out there? Mostly I see data for jacketed. Need it to feed in an AR, and it would be nice if I could go heavy enough that it cycles the action without the need for a gas check.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Anyone tried this in an AR? I was thinking a heavy plain based coated bullet might be interesting to play with.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
In M/L season I only hunt with a caplock, but I picked up a CVA Wolf to play with. I have a scope on it (not allowed for deer here) and it cloverleafs 50 cal maxi balls at the 30 yards it is sighted...
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I cast the lee copy of the HG68 as well as the 230TC. I powder coat. I will use scrap lead with a bit of pewter added for tin, COWW, or whatever for these bullets. The alloy doesn't seem to make...
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Forum: Muzzleloading.
I never tried more than a 370 grain maxi ball, but they shot well for me.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Managed to dry ball once and had to resort to a grease gun. What a mess. Managed to double ball a 54 this summer. Rather tart recoil, but both balls hit the target a little high and 2 or 3 inches...
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Yeah, a buddy and I were fooling around with revolvers that require cowboy action spec 45 Colt ammo. Thank God I cast and we reload, because if you can find it commercially the prices are stupid. ...
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You can drive DEWCs a lot harder if you wish. Lyman's cast manual has some fairly spicy data if that is your pleasure.
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I saw that post. The Saeco has two knocks: 1) good luck finding one and 2) gas check in a bullet that doesn't need it. I thought the 36-250 looked like a slightly shorter version of the 36-270. ...
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Bolt action. I cast these out of range scrap with a bit of tin. Was thinking about accurate 36-250b, cast out of something like 40-1.
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All we see of a swimming beaver is its head, and animals with no brain generally expire rapidly.
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I have been fooling around with a modestly powered, plain base round for short range hunting. The latest iteration is something I am pretty happy with: a 207 grain MP version of the 35-200 bullet,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
As another data point, I have been working on a short range beaver load, meant to relatively quietly and cleanly make a headshot on a swimming beaver at 25 to 50 yards. After a bunch of testing, I...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
APP is basically the same formula as Black MZ. Likes lots of compression to perform well.
Forum: Cast Boolits
My hand cast round balls dump deer in muzzleloader season.
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 |