NOE 311, 314, 316299 202Gr. RN Re-run

[Snafu12]

What rifle are you shooting Jim?

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

What rifle are you shooting Jim?

1891 Argentine Mauser, 7.65x53
She's a cherry one, she is!

[Snafu12]

Nice
It sure does shoot

[Snafu12]

Cleaned M14S today
It had 250 of these down the tube
Had a little leading in the gas port area
Nothing bad.

[Snafu12]

shot a 50 rd 100 yard reduced match Sunday
It started with 20 rds slow prone
That was not to good. I think a combination of not 100 yard dope and clean bore hurt me
After that I was happy with results
I was able to call shots while shooting and they were on the calls
Ends up with 376
Dropped 75 on prone

[madsenshooter]

Isn't the way it always goes Snafu? It is with me, shoot 1/2" 100yd groups the day before a match, but lucky to hit the target during the match. Well not quite that bad, least not most days, but still nothing like the practice shots.

[Snafu12]

I am happy with the mold and this load
Last string was off hand
Shot a 81 and my calls were on
loading 600 of these and starting work on M1 ans 03 load

[selmerfan]

Very pleased with this mold. Intended use for these boolits is ringing steel and hunting deer with the HP version out of my 308 Win or .30-06. I cast up some test projectiles from Lyman #2, 50/50 Pb/COWW, and Dental X-ray lead, just to see what would happen, all air-cooled. My test media wasn't ideal, but it was what I had available at the time - gallon milk jugs filled with water. I loaded all of them in my .308 Win PBR XP with 16 gr. 2400 behind them, a general accuracy load, not blazing speed. First five shots went into less than 1" at 100 yds, very pleased, ready to shoot jugs! Lyman #2 was up first, I had 5 gallon milk jugs back to back and it wasn't enough, the bullet slipped through the last one. I lined them up again because I shot high on the jugs just for this reason. I added two quart oil bottles behind, hurried back to the bench and fired again. Recovered the boolit! 45% weight retention, 5 milk jugs and two quart oil bottles. Sheared off the HP'd portion and a little bit more. I shot the second line of jugs with the 50/50 mix, penetrated into the 6th gallon milk jug, 65% retention, nice mushroom on the shank portion of the boolit. Third line of jugs was the x-ray lead, the boolit looked identical to the 50/50 boolit after stopping in the 6th jug again and retaining 64% of the weight. I know this wasn't an ideal test, but I was very pleased with the results, I'm gathering newspapers to fill a plastic-bag-lined box and soak with water for a little better test media. These are the first loads I've shot from this mold, they cast .3005-.301" on the nose and .311" on the bands - perfect for my .308 and .30-06 bores, the nose just engraves at the muzzle. I'll post pics later, I need to hit the road.

[MKastning]

I really like this mould. 314299 4 cavity.

Used it in a "Frozen Chosin" match last weekend in Sioux Falls, SD. Below is a copy of my first target at 100 yds.

I ended up scoring a 353-10x. Combined 100 and 200 yd shooting.

Sized to 312, Gas checked. 17.5 grains of AA5744, WLR primer, loaded on a Lee loadmaster.

I did not sort or weigh the boolits before loading. I did weigh one sample from the batch and it was at 202gr before lube and gas check.

I want to do some actual load developing and see what this thing will do. So far, I am impressed and very curious.