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It's what I use in the 450 Bushmaster (Casull's big brother)
Cast w/ #2 Lyman
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https://www.accuratemolds.com/bullet_detail.php?bullet=45-340C
It's what I use in the 450 Bushmaster (Casull's big brother)
Cast w/ #2 Lyman
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Some "4831" history here;
https://czfirearms.us/index.php?topic=62930.0
If (now) close to 60 years ago that Speer#5 would have been talking about IMR4831 -- as it existed then
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See https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?425807-50-Beowulf&p=5268624&viewfull=1#post5268624
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Cast a dozen plain-base ACC 35-147B's this morning
Pure Lead
325029
(Believe it or not pure lead is lower than BHN 5)
PC'd with Eastwood Ford Light Blue/Lee-sized .357"
Sport Pistol...
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I usually think of "swaging" as force-fit of somewhat oversized gross lead wire into a projectile shape.
"Sizing" meaning projectile already formed/cast, and you're just refining the final diameter....
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Powder-coated pure lead can be pushed into the 25-35,000 psi regime with Ballard-rifled barrels...
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Same question here: Why would 'sulfering' a lead alloy make it harder ?
'Tis a puzzlement.
postscript:
As noted above the Gentle Readers want pure lead for patched roundball
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For what it's worth, I'm running several 147gr bullet moulds, plain-based, Lyman#2
SIG, Walther, S&W, Glock
Powder coat, size to .357, and you'd be fine.
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I run three lead pots (three different alloys)
I have a Lyman thermometer in each of them (never taken out :razz: )
They are an excellent/relatively low-cost solution to known/consistent temp.
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If you want consistency, you want a number.
BHN does give you that number.
But for plinking/low-moderate loads, you want moderately soft
and thumbnail-scratch test will do -- especially PC'd.
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First . . Please... just get a lead thermometer.
Don't try to do anything by eyeball, by guess-and-by-golly, or by number on the dial.
You'll drive yourself nuts -- no matter what others might say....
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If going against hog subsonic, I'd sure go as heavy as I could reasonably stuff in the case/and still as fast as possible up to 1,100 fps
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Notwithstanding anything anyone say otherwise...
`Ya really need a lead thermometer . . .
700-ish degr for Lyman#2
800+ for pure and high-lead/tin alloys.
You get...
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Are you perchance open to powder coating?
You can stay remarkably soft/effective-expansion/weight-retention with PC'd bullets
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Personal experience:
Pure lead, True Lyman#2 (5/5/90), or binary lead/tin -- almost immediately.
Wheel weight/unknown content/anything with arsenic -- couple of days/week to settle a bit
More...
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I gotta tell`ya guys, 45 seconds doing La Cucaracha
with standard #5 food containers and I'm done.
:drinks:
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FWIW:
I Seat/Size/PC-shake/Bake/Size-final
(All Lee push-through)
And once fired, the bullet rather dramatically swages
itself together w/ the GC in the 1st millisecond ...no
matter what
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Send that drawing (above) to Tom Ellis at Accurate
and he'll put it in the catalog/make it up for you.
Heck, I might even have to buy one too.[smilie=w:
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Consider the Tried & True Classic:
https://i.postimg.cc/kgKJjtBs/1894-Amrlin44-Mag-Lym429421-2400-PC-sm.jpg
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The OP likely bought THESE.
That said, consider it roughly the same as a LYMAN 45cal 225gr #452374 (w/o the groove)
Seat it to 1.58 OAL for the 45 COLT
Unique 7.5 - 7.7 starting range load (mid...
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Just roll* the (heavy) crimp into the top grease groove/cover the grease
`Do it all the time. . . .
*BWIW: no taper crimp is going to hold in a heavy-projectile/heavy-recoiling revolver
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I used QL to double the length & weight of the Lyman 141, LWC #358495, and seated
to an OAL of 1/10" more than the case length, . . . . w/ 5gr Unique underneath.
Do-able.
I'm not so sure about...
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That would've been my initial thought, but the shiny coating rubbed
off on his finger looks like nothing I've ever seen before.
.. . almost like heavy layer of motor mica.
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Since rifled, and at that (rather massive) ball weights/diameter/rotational inertia, consider Lyman #2.
OOC: is there any lube or grease cookie in the original loading?
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I'm going have to probably break down and look at those nose bushings.... [smilie=f:
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 |