I won't abandon my 22-250 & 25-06 with J-words any time soon. But they get shot less nowadays. But they are ready for the long shots I sometimes take.
I won't abandon my 22-250 & 25-06 with J-words any time soon. But they get shot less nowadays. But they are ready for the long shots I sometimes take.
my 20 vartarg(tc encore)will take groundhogs, foxes and a 'yote or three. my 6.5 creedmoor(tc encore) and my 270(ruger #1) will take a deer long range. those 3 are jacketed bullets.
but my 30-30, 30-40 krag, 444marlin(tc encore again) and a 45-70 handi are nothing more than cast boolits. i'm going to have another encore that will be a 500 linebaugh(23"MGM barrel) and it will be a cast boolit, no jacketed thingys.
i think that cast boolits may have gotten me. is it bad when you dream about cast boolits?
sailing true probably means it hit the mark, however he obtained it. good shooting if you ask me!
Come on fellas GREAT shot but
Everyone knows that rondog used a Rossi 92 with the 24" barrel in .45 Colt, He says "gave me venison this fall with a 250 yard heart shot. I'd hesitate to try my 16" Winchester Trapper in .44 mag at 250 feet."
NRA Benefactor 2004 USAF RET 1971-95
Two guys l shoot IHMSA silh with have a friendly wager going over who can kill the most ''critters'' this season...Both are shooting the same class and type guns...0ne is shooting a 25BR w jktd bullets.. Second guys is shooting a 7mmBR w home cast boolits using an RCBS silh mold... 25BR is in SECOND.. Cast 7BR guy shot his first FORTY in the March match...His first ever... l saw him drop 10 rams @ 200Meters. 0pen sights from his XP100...Cast vs JKTD... Cast is winning
I wont be giving up J-words in a few of mine anytime soon unless someone comes up with a way to push cast at over 4100fps, I run light for cal in both my swift and 240wby for varminting and the 240 also sees 100gr J-words at 3200fps for deer use. They shoot like lazers but a lazer isn't always needed, both my 357mag & 45/70 only get feed cast and the 375H&H also gets a lot of cast put through it.
Ideal manual #38 from the 50's has a 29gr kirksite (pot metal or Zamak) cast bullet at 4760 fps with 40gr of 3031 in a 220 swift. It's one of my grandpa's old books and the fasted published load I've ever seen. I took a picture of the page but my imgur app is being a pain in the *** and not uploading for some reason.
look at page 47
its the first one up there
http://www.castpics.net/LoadData/OM/IdealHandbook38.pdf
Page 18 talks about using your kitchen gas, electric or coal stove to melt lead, as well as take the pot over by the window while fluxing.
The best part in the whole book though is the top bit of page 120.
"Never place the cases on the bottom of the oven or directly in contact with any heated surface. Place them on a grating, spread out on newspaper. Leave the door open about one inch to permit a circulation of air.
If you have no thermostat or oven indicator on your stove, you will have to call in the cook and have her regulate the oven as she would if she were baking a sponge cake; then follow the directions above. "
Read a story once where a big business man hired a prof. gunsmith to set up a rifle, scope dialed in and loaded ammo. then hired a prof. guide to locate Elk, Flew out to meet guide, next day rode in the truck to hunting area, spotted elk from truck, shot elk, (First round fired by him through this gun) from my understanding it was some kind of record breaker. Guide handled processing and mount, while business man flew back to his domain. O.K for some! And feeds a lot of professionals!!! Now re-create this story self imposed with cast and only the professionals at cast boolits and that is where I find the feeling of accomplishment, & success. And what a long winded story it would be to give all the details from when I started to washing up the knives. Jim
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 |