Rich/WIS
06-19-2013, 04:12 PM
Had a bunch of Lyman 245496 GC bullets I got from a member here to load for plinking in my M788 Rem carbine. Still have a few and since my plinking load is 4.0 gr Bullseye got to wondering if they really needed a GC. Found a cheap Lyman DC 245496 on Ebay that looked as if the GC area of the mold was messed up and won it ($42 shipped). Mold came yesterday and sure enough the GC area was messed up, previous own had tried to make a PB bullet and had bored it out to remove the GC shank as well as the lowest gease groove. Cast a few this AM, cast nice (86.5 gr sized and lubed) with a plain base about.215-.220 long before the first gease groove. Sized to .244 and loaded them in front of 4 gr BE to test. AT 25 yards shot to same POI as the GC ones, same near ragged hole as well. Who ever did the mod must have used a drill as the bored area shows a lot of marks, but will do a little moldsmithing to smooth it out. Without a GC my cost on these is less than 4 cents a pop, no recoil and no problem hitting pieces of claybird on the 50 yard berm (old Tasco3x9 scope of course). Would post a pic but have never figured out how to make photobucket work.