Good morning all,
I am new here and am looking for a little help.... I acquired an old Ideal mould 431244 and thought I would cast up a few oversize bullets for a 44 mag I own with some oversize cylinder throats. This is a SWC gas check of about 255 grains. I decided to use some various scrap and old bullets etc for melt and made up a couple of hundred. They are soft enough to dent with a hard finger nail but since I wanted to shoot them around or under 1,000 fps I thought that would be ok. They came out at 258-259 grains and around .434-.435 if I remember right. I intend to size them to .432.
The problem is that the new Hornady gas checks I have don't seem to want to fit onto the bullet - they are too tight. They are unwilling to be forced on with anything short of a hammer! Anyone care to offer any suggestions....
Thanks
Ward