Hi guys...
A number 4 1/2 followed me home. My first. I always wanted one of these, and have plenty of brass as it’s always been on my list to get one, but with no FFL around, ordering one has been out of the question. What I don’t have is a set of Dies.. been looking around online and see that fireforming is the way to go apparently, followed by neck sizing? I need to get tooled up. Need some input on this please. And a set of Die’s.
I did slug the weapon and found it to run 309-310ish. I guess I am lucky there from what I have read. I drove one of them new to me Hammer of Thor’s 160g sized to 311 and it really engaged well with real nice grooves. Looks like it was re-barreled at some point as the rifling is strong. A bit of grunge in the cone, but that is taken care of. Haven’t figured out all the stamps on and around the hardware, but being it’s a 1/2 it must have been in the shop for a make-over. I am planning to jump straight to 18g of 2400 (around 1800fps) and 13g of red dot (around 1400fps) to see how things go. Anything I miss???
Marko