I picked up a Ruger Hawkeye in this chambering on sale from CDNN. Nice gun, and shoots reloads well. Since bullets of any sort are hard to come by (there's lots in the catalog, just none on the shelves) I thought I'd try paper patching.
The bore slugs at 0.329, groove 0.337 and a hair. Good! I bought the Lee 0.329", 200 gr mold for the surplus pull action 8 mms and a 0.338" Lyman sizer. Following instructions from this site I found some old green lined computer paper on a roll and made some patches. 30* angle, don't recall the length, but have it written down if anyone's interested.
Bullets dropped at 0.330". Wrapped wet w/1" strips right at ogive, folded base, dried overnight, lubed w/BAC
Loaded with the starting 338-06 load with the slowest powder I had: AA4350 - 50 gr.
Shot two groups at 100 yds. Both threw a flier, but even with the group size is similar to what I get with Hornady souped-up factory ammo w/200 gr bullets. Methinks this is very promising.
Confetti shreds. I estimate this load does about 2100 fps.
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