26Charlie
05-23-2007, 09:52 AM
Have been slowly getting stuff together to work with this carbine, made in 1921. Sights are bead front and aperture rear.
I have about 1000 .30-30 brass, so have been making cases by Robertbank's method of sleeving the base with a cutoff .40 S&W case, then sizing & fireforming. It is more work than sizing and trimming .220 Swift cases, of which I made one, but I cannot bring myself to use up expensive Swift brass of which I have only a limited supply. I ordered some new .303 brass form Buffalo Arms, but it has been on backorder for several months.
Lyman 311291 175 gr. and 12.0 gr. 800-X worked well and gave me a useful plinking load s well as formed brass. I thought to use a RCBS 150 gr. bullet and jack up the load to 14.0 gr. 800-x, which formed the brass OK but did not group as well. I got a 9" 10-shot group at 100 yards and a 6" 28-shot group at 50 yards. Now to put together some loads with the formed brass.
I've been getting really interested in these intermediate thirty-calibers - .303 Savage, .30-30, and .30 Remington Rimless.
I shot a group at 50 yards with the .30-30 Marlin M36, using a small game load of the RCBS 32-98-FP pistol bullet and 3.3 gr. Bullseye. Four went into 1 inch, with a shot out at 2 1/2 " to the right. Aperture rear/bead front sights.
The .30 Remington in a M8 semiauto (can I put this in the levergun forum?) responded OK to a load of 16.0 gr. 2400 behind a RNGC 162 gr. design from a mould I recently picked ip - it is a Cramer 49A, three cavity. Gave me a 9-shot group at 100 yards of 4 7/8", sights being large bead front and aperture rear. The 10th shot? I'm not counting it because I flinched it and knew it at the time. The load functions the action OK and drops the empties right next to the gun on the bench.
I have about 1000 .30-30 brass, so have been making cases by Robertbank's method of sleeving the base with a cutoff .40 S&W case, then sizing & fireforming. It is more work than sizing and trimming .220 Swift cases, of which I made one, but I cannot bring myself to use up expensive Swift brass of which I have only a limited supply. I ordered some new .303 brass form Buffalo Arms, but it has been on backorder for several months.
Lyman 311291 175 gr. and 12.0 gr. 800-X worked well and gave me a useful plinking load s well as formed brass. I thought to use a RCBS 150 gr. bullet and jack up the load to 14.0 gr. 800-x, which formed the brass OK but did not group as well. I got a 9" 10-shot group at 100 yards and a 6" 28-shot group at 50 yards. Now to put together some loads with the formed brass.
I've been getting really interested in these intermediate thirty-calibers - .303 Savage, .30-30, and .30 Remington Rimless.
I shot a group at 50 yards with the .30-30 Marlin M36, using a small game load of the RCBS 32-98-FP pistol bullet and 3.3 gr. Bullseye. Four went into 1 inch, with a shot out at 2 1/2 " to the right. Aperture rear/bead front sights.
The .30 Remington in a M8 semiauto (can I put this in the levergun forum?) responded OK to a load of 16.0 gr. 2400 behind a RNGC 162 gr. design from a mould I recently picked ip - it is a Cramer 49A, three cavity. Gave me a 9-shot group at 100 yards of 4 7/8", sights being large bead front and aperture rear. The 10th shot? I'm not counting it because I flinched it and knew it at the time. The load functions the action OK and drops the empties right next to the gun on the bench.