Dutchman
10-23-2007, 07:02 PM
Some/many of you are aware of this Lee custom mold 170gr flat nose gas check .267" that was produced as a result of a group buy some years ago. The mold itself is available from Midsouth Shooters Supply.
For those of us that don't handcast bullets (anymore) we've been left out in the cold... until now.
Today I took delivery of 500 of these wunderslugs for the 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser. They're awsum. 1.267" long. One of the longest cast bullets I've ever seen. I know Buckshot has one of these molds as he posted some valuable information over at gunboards.com in the Swedish forum.
I have no connection with this vendor except I've been a customer since 1999 and know his quality is as good as any. His prices are much better than most.
http://gardnerscache.com/index.html
Gardner's Cache in Illinois. I've purchased from him in person when I was resident in northwest Indiana for 10 yrs. $45 per 500 + USPS shipping.
Couple months ago I purchased 3,000 other cast bullets from him including:
.311" 190 gr RN
.309" 210 gr RN Lyman 311284
.323" 170 gr flat nose for the 8x57 Mauser (and hopefully 8x58R Danish)
.452" 230 gr RN for the .45 acp
.357" 158 gr SWC for the .38 Special
The two .30 caliber rifle bullets did very well in the M1903 Springfield & M1917 rifle. Intital loads with the .323" 170 gr in the 8x57 Persian Mauser and K98k proved it to be a viable choise. It did much better in my nearly cherry Persian 98/29 mainly because it has a Dayton trigger (I did the dirty deed).
Many decades ago, in the far distant past I use to cast my own. I liked it alot but gave it up when I retired and moved cross country in 1996. Since then I've bought from Wayne Doudna in Wisconsin and Gardner's Cache in Illinois. I've been very pleased with Doudna's rifle bullets, especially 311299 as it shot some extroidinary groups from my Finn m/1891 Mosin-Nagant B-barrel & 1891 Argentine Mauser. I found it very strange that those two rifles shot as well as they did but the Finn Belgian barrel Mosin had a previously unfired barrel and its beautiful inside, smooth and shiney. Doudna's prices have risen way too much for me to be buying from him regularly as I use to. Gardner's prices are among the lowest anywhere that I found on the web.
But the 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser in the m/1896 rifle wouldn't shoot fer sh*t with the 160 gr Loverin cast bullet from Doudna. Some of you know this already:???:. I was slow getting into cast bullets in the 6.5x55. Recently a shooting friend in northwest Indiana spoke with Jim Gardner in Valparasio, Indiana at a gunshow and Gardner mentioned he had this Lee custom mold that he bought for a customer but the fellow never bought the 1,000 bullets that he cast with it. My friend snapped up 500 of them and I just received the other 500 but he will cast and sell these same as his other bullets but its not cataloged into his website.
Tell him Dutch sent you and maybe he'll smile at me sometime:drinks:.
Dutchman
Siskiyou County, Calif
For those of us that don't handcast bullets (anymore) we've been left out in the cold... until now.
Today I took delivery of 500 of these wunderslugs for the 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser. They're awsum. 1.267" long. One of the longest cast bullets I've ever seen. I know Buckshot has one of these molds as he posted some valuable information over at gunboards.com in the Swedish forum.
I have no connection with this vendor except I've been a customer since 1999 and know his quality is as good as any. His prices are much better than most.
http://gardnerscache.com/index.html
Gardner's Cache in Illinois. I've purchased from him in person when I was resident in northwest Indiana for 10 yrs. $45 per 500 + USPS shipping.
Couple months ago I purchased 3,000 other cast bullets from him including:
.311" 190 gr RN
.309" 210 gr RN Lyman 311284
.323" 170 gr flat nose for the 8x57 Mauser (and hopefully 8x58R Danish)
.452" 230 gr RN for the .45 acp
.357" 158 gr SWC for the .38 Special
The two .30 caliber rifle bullets did very well in the M1903 Springfield & M1917 rifle. Intital loads with the .323" 170 gr in the 8x57 Persian Mauser and K98k proved it to be a viable choise. It did much better in my nearly cherry Persian 98/29 mainly because it has a Dayton trigger (I did the dirty deed).
Many decades ago, in the far distant past I use to cast my own. I liked it alot but gave it up when I retired and moved cross country in 1996. Since then I've bought from Wayne Doudna in Wisconsin and Gardner's Cache in Illinois. I've been very pleased with Doudna's rifle bullets, especially 311299 as it shot some extroidinary groups from my Finn m/1891 Mosin-Nagant B-barrel & 1891 Argentine Mauser. I found it very strange that those two rifles shot as well as they did but the Finn Belgian barrel Mosin had a previously unfired barrel and its beautiful inside, smooth and shiney. Doudna's prices have risen way too much for me to be buying from him regularly as I use to. Gardner's prices are among the lowest anywhere that I found on the web.
But the 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser in the m/1896 rifle wouldn't shoot fer sh*t with the 160 gr Loverin cast bullet from Doudna. Some of you know this already:???:. I was slow getting into cast bullets in the 6.5x55. Recently a shooting friend in northwest Indiana spoke with Jim Gardner in Valparasio, Indiana at a gunshow and Gardner mentioned he had this Lee custom mold that he bought for a customer but the fellow never bought the 1,000 bullets that he cast with it. My friend snapped up 500 of them and I just received the other 500 but he will cast and sell these same as his other bullets but its not cataloged into his website.
Tell him Dutch sent you and maybe he'll smile at me sometime:drinks:.
Dutchman
Siskiyou County, Calif