Hi everybody,
I have a Savage No4 Mk1 enfield. It has a 2 groove barrel. I ordered it from Classic Arms a number of years ago. When I was cleaning it up, I thought the bore looked pretty good. It doesn't shoot cast boolits that well. Here is what I have accomplished so far (in order). This is what I did not necessarily what people in the know would do.
I bought a 314299 mould and cast some boolits. They measured unsized at 0.3155. They key holed.
I slugged the barrel and found the diameter to be 0.3145 in.
I bought another mould 316299. They measure unsized 0.3175 in. I used 18 grains of 2400. They key holed.
I then thought I should pound cast the chamber to see what's going on. I performed this 3 times to get it right. Here are the results:
As you can see the rifling looks good. Now look at the next one.
To me, the rifling doesn't start as far to the left as the previous rifling.
Could this cause the key holing problem?
Thanks in advance.
Terryfromok