What's your favorite cast bullet gun? Tells us about it. Load, accuracy and use.
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What's your favorite cast bullet gun? Tells us about it. Load, accuracy and use.
Winchester M70 270Win, 10gr Red Dot/Promo, Lee 277-135. About 1500fps. Glock 26 Gen3 9mm, NOE ELCO 358-155 HP, 2.9 grains of Red Dot/Promo. Gonna try some W748 in the 270 in the next few months.
Ruger 45LC convertable although the 357Mag is a close second. For plinking I favor a 200gr boolit over 4-5gr Promo or other powder in that range. For molds I have settled on a RNFP for most everything short of hunting.
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270 win is kind of a surprise. Do you use any filler?
Any of my several handguns. They range from 38 special, 357 mag, 45 acp, to several 9mm handguns.
They all work well with cast.
I haven't tried rifle yet.
Marlin 1894 CB .44 Spec/Mag. 24" bbl with a Lyman Receiver Sight. Two favorite boolits are 429421 and 429244 with the latter being shot most with 22 gr of H110 in Magnum cases.. All the boolits get Powder Coated now so there is no barrel leading and clean up is one clean patch thru to push out the powder fouling from the last shot.
My second favorite gun which is quickly becoming my Fav is actually two guns. My Mossberg 500 Tactical Shotgun and my Browning A5.
The M500 has been to 3 Front Sight Tactical Shotgun Classes and is a joy to shoot. It had teh VAng Comp Process done to the barrel andpatterns buckshot into 3" at 15 yds. I can run Birdshot, Buckshot and Slugs interchangeably and the gun has devastating power.
The A5 is a new project that will quickly earn it keep in 3 gun comps. I have both a Smoothbore Slug Barrel with sights and a Hastings Rifled Slug Barrel with sights.
The Slugs we are loading over at the "Casting For Shotguns" forum are all in the 500 gr range and out of either gun they are 2" groups at 50 yards. Hoping to get that at 100 from the A5 rifled barrel. It is truly a .73 caliber Rifle!
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I really can't answer that other than "the one in my hand". 375Winchester bb94 was so easy to get to shoot well, 10gr of 2028 and a Lee 255 cuts cloverleaves and a case full(black powder style) of AA4064 as a hunting load behind NOE375449 grouped well. Then there is 35 Rem and 30Rem in M41 and M141s, 38 special, 44special, 3030, and current favorite 41special! 41special I'm shooting a NOE 411 238 grain lfn with 13.5 of 2400 for hunting and experimenting with a full was cutter and 231 for plinking.o ops forgot 32swl and 32hr, my summer favorites.
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All of them!
But my favorites are my 35 Whelen, B92 357and my 45-350.
But my 6.5mm X 308 it just doesn't work like i'd like, need to work on it more.
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Any mil surp in 30-06...
My 357 mag ,308 win no wait my 45-70.all good can't decide.
My coonan classic, 158gr round nose powder coated, 16.5 grains of wichester 296/h 110. Happens to be a pretty darn good load in all the revolvers, and the ruger 77/357 rifle. This load is for target work. For hunting, I substitute the round nose for a rnfp. Same charge. Works fantast for deer.
I like casting for any rifle or pistol,my favorite ones are 30-06,270,and 44 magnum. If I had to pick only one gun to cast for it would be my 788 Remington 6mm with the Rcbs 95 grain
Yes, yes, yes!Originally Posted by arlon
Also, any S&W M&P (pre model 10) .38 Special and any 1911! Easy to find good shooting loads in these pieces. My 1903 and two 1920's Smith's have never had jacketed shot by me. My 1937 Colt 1911A1 ...maybe 100 rounds in the 40 years I've owned it - thousands of lead though.
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My S&W 686 and my Para 45acp for pistols, Remmy 700 308 for rifles.
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This 1911 at the moment...
I have to keep at the lead pot & progressive to keep the coolie jar full...
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I can narrow it down to 20 or 30. That's like asking which is my favorite son. I never can "pick just one" of anything.
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No real 'favorite'. I shoot cast in everything but my .22 Hornet but, in terms of ammo expended, it'd be a toss-up among my BPCRs.
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No contest here. A .43 Spanish Rolling Block, 1879 Argentine model. james
Believe it or not it is my 358 Norma Mag on a Ruger 77 tang safety rifle. And my 686, And my SRH 44 mag. And my Marlin 45/70 CB. And my 1926 44 Hand Ejector. And.......
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