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Last of the original Group Buy Honcho's.
"Dueling should have never been made illegal in this country. It settled lots of issues between folks."- Char-Gar
Well I finally had a chance to shoot some of these boolits today in my "Turked" GEW98 ( Receiver sights & Aperture front at 50 yds)
I cast them a while back as soon as I got the mould. It is a 2 cavity (1 PB & 1GC) in .328" Boolits were sized .326" lube was Ben's Red. Alloy was my usual of 50% COWW / 50% pure / add'l 2% tin.
All are air cooled and seasoned for minimum of 4 weeks & divided into groups of plus or minus .3 gr variation.
Black Bull was 3" at 50 yd ( perfect for my sight picture)
Took a guess at where I wanted to start, powder & load wise, and just loaded two small batches up & headed out to the range.
First target is 16 grains Alliant 2400 and 130 gr Gas Checked boolit for ten shots
The second target was 6 grains Bullseye with the 130 grain plain base boolit for 7 shots.
Wish I had 3 more boolits but was shy of that particular grain weight so I shot what I had
BTW: the sights were not adjusted between loads so that is the difference in impact point.
All in all I'm delighted. Especially with the plain base version. Now I really do have a light weight 8 mm plinker that is very economical to shoot! Now to start some real load development
" Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation: for it is better to be alone than in bad company. " George Washington
JWFilips
Great shooting - thanks for the report
Wish we would get more input - good or bad
Again thank you for the report and Look forward to seeing
some of your load development out come
Bullet maker, maker
Swede Nelson
The expectation of evil is more bitter than the suffering -OR-
More people die from worrying about getting ate by a bear then get ate by a bear.
Swede,
It's a great mould! Not sure how much more I'm going to develop that Plain base boolit load! After posting I did some serious measuring and The ragged hole to the right is less than 1/2" and that is for 5 Boolits!!! I think that is my best group ever.
I also want to mention: I always seat to the lands! I develop ( ALL) my c.o.l.'s based on a carefully forward seated boolit in a dummy round. Carefully chambered in the rifle when the bolt is closed ....then carefully removed. (Usually shows some bore engagement) that is what I use for COL.
And not just the Mausers but in all of my rifles. That gives me the most accuracy.... but that is just how I do it. Other folks may feel differently.
" Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation: for it is better to be alone than in bad company. " George Washington
Life has gotten in the way of loading up what I have cast of this one, good to see someone got started!
More "This is what happened when I,,,,," and less "What would happen if I,,,,"
Last of the original Group Buy Honcho's.
"Dueling should have never been made illegal in this country. It settled lots of issues between folks."- Char-Gar
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