Originally Posted by
georgerc
thanks for the tip, I have yet to load any of the ones I made but I will look for those streaks, is that pretty much an indication of PC fouling? any other signs?
I have been watching them as they start melting, 3 batches so far, they all melt at about the same rate, as for the temp, I done the first at 400 per oven display, it appeared that they darkened quite a bit, than again that was my first time, the next 2 I did at 350 honestly not a visible difference other than the oven reached set temp a short while after they were completely melted, I think the HF instructions also say to bake them for about 20 mins, I read on here that 10-15mins is about the norm and saw some examples of overbaked PC too, the thought process was too heat them up just enough to get them to flow, we'll see how they work and go from there, maybe I'll get a thermometer in the mean time and see about that fan.
on another note I had a chance to do some target practice this morning, if you can call it that, same light rounds I loaded a while back, never had a problem when they were fresh, the second cylinder first round, squib again, I had them stored in a plastic box, bullet down for a few months, I'm thinking that little bit of powder in that large of a case, 38 spl, may have settled up by the bullet or something, I doubted messing up the charge in the first place, now I am pretty sure I did not do that twice.
the only other thing I can thing of these are berrys plated 125, and I loaded them with cast data, I have another batch I made shortly after with middle of the road jacketed data, I'll see how those go for comparison, honestly these particular ones that are giving me grief feel really light, compared to factory, I don't have a chrono just seat of the pants, they aren't very loud and hardly any recoil, accurate thou, but it may have something to do with the profile of the straight walled plated bullet vs your typical lubed cast boolit