Ben
01-11-2013, 05:34 PM
I took a VERY old .30 / .31 cal. Lee ( Harris design ) 160 gr. tumble lube spire design and removed the gas check shank.
The end result looks just fine. The rear base band drops from the mold with ACWW's at .3125" .
I sized them to .311 dia. and filled the T/L grooves with Ben's Red and then coated the entire bullet in thinned LLA.
I have about 100 of them ready now for testing. There won't be any " hot rodding " done with these. I plan to shoot them out of my 06' and 308 Win. rifles in the 1,000 - 1,300 fps speed zone.
Rain here for the past 3 days, if it ever drys out, I'll be shooting these.
Ben
The lines in this 1st photo are not exact, I took my mic and checked the " numbers " and this is roughly what it translated into :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/1234_zpsc248964a.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/002-46_zps717f7179.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/003-39_zps9de270ff.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/004-37_zps50714d83.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/003-39_zps1941b411.jpg
Here they are lubed , sized, and ready to load :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/001-41_zpsfe31dcd2.jpg
The end result looks just fine. The rear base band drops from the mold with ACWW's at .3125" .
I sized them to .311 dia. and filled the T/L grooves with Ben's Red and then coated the entire bullet in thinned LLA.
I have about 100 of them ready now for testing. There won't be any " hot rodding " done with these. I plan to shoot them out of my 06' and 308 Win. rifles in the 1,000 - 1,300 fps speed zone.
Rain here for the past 3 days, if it ever drys out, I'll be shooting these.
Ben
The lines in this 1st photo are not exact, I took my mic and checked the " numbers " and this is roughly what it translated into :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/1234_zpsc248964a.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/002-46_zps717f7179.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/003-39_zps9de270ff.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/004-37_zps50714d83.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/003-39_zps1941b411.jpg
Here they are lubed , sized, and ready to load :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/haysb/001-41_zpsfe31dcd2.jpg