meece
02-09-2014, 05:06 PM
Kia Ora all (thats a kiwi way of saying hello, gidday, hows it hanging .. etc etc
Little bit about myself first. 48 years old, use guns solely for hunting and pest control (we do pest control on local farms for rabbits, possums, Hares, Goats, Pigs and Deer) and only punch paper with air rifles, First post, joined a week ago and have spent the last week reading 1596 unread posts, pretty much read everything i could on the forum as we are forced to serously look at casting as a vaiable means of obtaining ammo, I live in a provincal town and the only ammo supplier closed down a month ago so I have to drive over 100km to purchase ammo now or order it online which is a right royal pain in the you know what here in NZ (police have to sight firearms liecence and "approve" the sale etc etc) ... so during one of our serches for reloading projectiles for the .270 I came across a lee 7.62x39 boolit mold for only $35, thought now theres a go, if we can buy the powder, primers and componants on line, (which do not require police approved paperwork, only live ammo does ....go figure pfft polititions huh) then we can feed the .270's and 7.62x39's with as much ammo as we need to hunt our ever increasing plauge of goats.
Ok first step
drop a Doz beer around to the local tyre shop in exchange for a bucket of WW and a promise for more to come once I explained what I needed them for.
second step
Vist the OP shops for sauce pans, laddle, and bits and bobs, no fancy melting pot yet as this was very much a proof of concept project. melt down lead into ingots after removing Dos and floaty bits,
third step
Hide "borrowed" ingot muffin tin from wifey
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4th step
cast these yesterday 100 nice shiny 160gr boolits, 70% WW/30% normal Lead water quenched, first attempt but using info found on this great site.
5th step order some brass, but in the meantime pull the heads on Norinco FMJ and dump the powder as a matter of interest the Millsurp FMJ powder varied by as much as 2gr over 20 rounds and the projectiles varied by 2.5gr! no wonder 4 inch groups where about as good as we could get in the JW103 and SKS.
and heres where we are at the moment
100 shiny new 160gr lee tumblelubed boolits waiting on Gas check (ordered the die and GC should be here this week) 20 pulled Norinco steel case's waiting said boolits, 20 varous brass once fired scrounged from places, resized, primed and awaiting boolits as well.
we have the equivalent of the Reloader No 7 powder available here in NZ (pretty much stuck with ADI powder range only) and some pretty confusing load data. Im going to start at 18 RL7/ADI powder and work my way from there, need the round to cycle the bolt in the SKS but not exceed 1700 fps, have a crony so will keep a close eye on things but if any of you guru's have a good load or im doing somthing wrong please tell me!.
What we are trying get is a nice 50yrd accurate Goat round, as the SKS is my bush gun for culling mobs of goats, rarely do I exceed 100 yrd shots with this gun, anything further and I just pull out the .270.
Why not just use FMJ's you may ask .... well the accuracy for one and ive had a few too many just zip straight though the goat and keep on trucking and thats not good for the animal, even a pest deserves a humane end.
anyway sorry for the long post and the spelling mistakes but spellcheck seems to be broken. any tips, comments or ideas welcome :grin:
cheers from NZ
Meece
Little bit about myself first. 48 years old, use guns solely for hunting and pest control (we do pest control on local farms for rabbits, possums, Hares, Goats, Pigs and Deer) and only punch paper with air rifles, First post, joined a week ago and have spent the last week reading 1596 unread posts, pretty much read everything i could on the forum as we are forced to serously look at casting as a vaiable means of obtaining ammo, I live in a provincal town and the only ammo supplier closed down a month ago so I have to drive over 100km to purchase ammo now or order it online which is a right royal pain in the you know what here in NZ (police have to sight firearms liecence and "approve" the sale etc etc) ... so during one of our serches for reloading projectiles for the .270 I came across a lee 7.62x39 boolit mold for only $35, thought now theres a go, if we can buy the powder, primers and componants on line, (which do not require police approved paperwork, only live ammo does ....go figure pfft polititions huh) then we can feed the .270's and 7.62x39's with as much ammo as we need to hunt our ever increasing plauge of goats.
Ok first step
drop a Doz beer around to the local tyre shop in exchange for a bucket of WW and a promise for more to come once I explained what I needed them for.
second step
Vist the OP shops for sauce pans, laddle, and bits and bobs, no fancy melting pot yet as this was very much a proof of concept project. melt down lead into ingots after removing Dos and floaty bits,
third step
Hide "borrowed" ingot muffin tin from wifey
96242
4th step
cast these yesterday 100 nice shiny 160gr boolits, 70% WW/30% normal Lead water quenched, first attempt but using info found on this great site.
5th step order some brass, but in the meantime pull the heads on Norinco FMJ and dump the powder as a matter of interest the Millsurp FMJ powder varied by as much as 2gr over 20 rounds and the projectiles varied by 2.5gr! no wonder 4 inch groups where about as good as we could get in the JW103 and SKS.
and heres where we are at the moment
100 shiny new 160gr lee tumblelubed boolits waiting on Gas check (ordered the die and GC should be here this week) 20 pulled Norinco steel case's waiting said boolits, 20 varous brass once fired scrounged from places, resized, primed and awaiting boolits as well.
we have the equivalent of the Reloader No 7 powder available here in NZ (pretty much stuck with ADI powder range only) and some pretty confusing load data. Im going to start at 18 RL7/ADI powder and work my way from there, need the round to cycle the bolt in the SKS but not exceed 1700 fps, have a crony so will keep a close eye on things but if any of you guru's have a good load or im doing somthing wrong please tell me!.
What we are trying get is a nice 50yrd accurate Goat round, as the SKS is my bush gun for culling mobs of goats, rarely do I exceed 100 yrd shots with this gun, anything further and I just pull out the .270.
Why not just use FMJ's you may ask .... well the accuracy for one and ive had a few too many just zip straight though the goat and keep on trucking and thats not good for the animal, even a pest deserves a humane end.
anyway sorry for the long post and the spelling mistakes but spellcheck seems to be broken. any tips, comments or ideas welcome :grin:
cheers from NZ
Meece