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Well, I boosted the powder charge to 25 grains and averaged just under 1300 fps. I think I'll call that good. A Speer Gold Dot 270 gr. with 24 grains shoots at 1400 fps in the same gun. Go figure.

CCI 350 magnum primer. Powder is good, checked it with a proven load, chronographed right on the money.

That little velocity with that much powder has me a bit concerned, too. Most of the load data I can find for similar weight bullets, both cast and jacketed, exceed 1300 fps with that much W296. I'm...

I was given a couple boxes of Beartooth 265 gr. WFNGC .432 diam. bullets several years ago that were leftover from an estate sale. I have been experimenting with them lately to use for an elk hunting...

I finally turned a bullet punch with the right nose configuration to size down bullets. I sized down Lee REAL 200 gr. bullets and the Lee TL 200 bullets to my .448" bore diameter. Of all things, I...

Mooman76, thanks for the offer. I have sent a PM. Some interesting ideas from all to consider. Thank you all very much for your input.

Some of the colonies cover several square miles. Best we can do is to thin them out in the higher dollar alfalfa fields, hay meadows, and pastures. The ones in the sage brush are to hard to see and...

Oops, terminology mistake on my part. Went back and came across definitions of bore and groove diameter in my old Lyman Cast Bullet handbook. Bore diameter is what I call land diameter, the diameter...

Don't think a REAL will go down the barrel. Just to make sure we're on the same page, what I'm calling groove diameter sounds like what you are calling bore diameter, the largest diameter of the...

In Colorado, for muzzleloading, .40 caliber and larger is required for hunting deer, Pronghorn, and black bear, .50 and larger for elk. Roundball was fine. However, several years ago, Colorado Parks...

Have any of you guys tried powder coating conical bullets for a muzzleloader? I'm talking about TC Maxiballs, the Lee R.E.A.L. bullet, and Minie Balls. Seems like it would eliminate the messy lubing...

Just got these bullets from Missouri Bullet Co and now I can't find any loading data for them or any 140 gr bullets for the S&W .40 except for Barnes copper bullets. These are cast hard enough to...

I've been casting round nose bullets for my single shot .45-70 for years, and are the only kind of moulds I own. Recently, I picked up a Marlin 1895 lever gun chambered in .450 Marlin, which is...

The other advantage to using pure lead is the terminal performance.
Soft lead balls tend to expand out to double their diameter, typically stopping against the hide on the far side. It seems to...

Thanks, guys. I boiled them for starters. The wax all rose to the surface and hardened when it cooled - no mess, just picked the wax off the surface, mostly in one big piece. There is still some lube...

I bought about 500 cast boolits for my .45/70 at an estate sale recently. They are various weights and already sized and lubed. They were stored for quite a while in open top boxes, and there is a...

It will tumble. It needs spin to stabilize.

I bought a .54 renegade back in the late 70s. I have used it primarily for elk hunting. The load I used most was a 440 gr. (as my mold casts them) Maxiball in front of 105 gr. of Pyrodex RS, with a...

Just an opinion here on using them in rifles for deer hunting. They are plenty big enough for deer hunting, as long as you are not going to try 200 yard shots with them. A soft lead minie is not...