For a top punch I size the soup can with a 1/4" x 20 bolt. I place the bolt in a drill press and run it, then file the flats off it down to .275" or so.
For a top punch I size the soup can with a 1/4" x 20 bolt. I place the bolt in a drill press and run it, then file the flats off it down to .275" or so.
[The Montana Gianni] Front sight and squeeze
To All,
When a "brother of the heart" saw my GCCB deer-load data for my .300 Savage he said, "Congratulations on re-inventing the .30-30WCF."
yours, tex
Great resource from the good old Cast Pics days is this chart that I've referenced many times in the past; http://www.castpics.net/subsite/TopPunches/Lee.html
While not complete it covers quite a bit of them. Hope this helps.
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
― Winston S. Churchill
richodg66,
180 grain GCCB in front of 30 grains of Varget at about 1900FPS. = It's GOOD killer on WT, feral hogs and (once 15+ years ago, a similar 180 grain bullet at about the same FPS) even an over 1600# Brahma-cross bull, that ended up as about a half-ton of hamburger meat & that was donated to a BSA summer camp.
(The bull bellowed, took 3-4 steps & collapsed as if he had been pole-axed.)
"Heavy for caliber bullets" at moderate velocity WORK quite well & kill all out of proportion to their "paper ballistics". - May I remind everyone that a 286 grain bullet at 2200FPS, out of the 9.3x62 Mauser, is quite capable to taking Cape Buffalo & even Elephant??
(As my old boarding-school buddy says, "You can't kill 'em deader than dead.")
Note: W.D.M. "Karamoja" Bell successfully took over 100 Elephants (and many TONS of other African game, including 18 zebra stallions in ONE afternoon, while shooting "on control" for the Game Department in British East Africa) with a .275 Rigby (which is the British designation for the 7x57mm Mauser).
I saw his famous rifle at the NRA HQ when it was "on loan" to the NRA Museum in Washington DC.
yours, tex
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I used the NOE clone of the 311041 in front of 28 grains of IMR 4895 and a bit of Dacron on top. Shot well enough and killed well enough, sounds like you're load is a bit more than mine, I might have to up the load a bit.
richodg66,
My GUESS is that your load is superior to the "High Speed" .32-40 factory loaded ammo by Peters & the old .32-40 killed a LOT of game both big & small.
Fwiw, I have a slew of ".32-40 regular speed clone" reloads with 170 grain PBCB for .300 Savage that kills feral hogs to 100+ pounds just fine & ruins little or NO edible meat. = It's "enough gun" for medium game for certain & CHEAP to load, too.
yours, tex
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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 |