bigted
04-26-2014, 11:41 PM
was playin with my 92 Winchester the other day and discovered that with a flair on the mouth of the 45 colt case ... the neck size is a lose .457 or tight .458 inch. have heard of this in the past but was somehow convinced that MINE was not possibly that lose in the chamber ... WRONG !!!
so having a 457122 hp Lyman mold that I simply detest using as the pin that I clipped off for deleting the stupid hollow point but still gotta mess with the pin anyway ...[gonna silver solder that stupid pin solid in 1 half one day].
took the aggravating thing out and cast a few of the now 349/350 grain solid boolits. with 20 or so in hand I sized em in a lose .459 inch die and lubed the grooves with SPG. after flairing the mouth on 15 cases that were fire formed to my chamber ... I loaded them over 20 grains IMR 4227 powder for a full 100% load under the seated boolit. I seated the boolit so that they are 1.600 inch OAL so they would work thru the action. crimping them tight to the boolit nose I ... in trepidation ... took em out for some snap shooting to see how they would act.
perfect is all I can say. they are fair on the recoil dept. with just enough umgh to know you shot something but no obnoxious. after getting the trajectory down I could hit whatever I wanted to and the smack upon hitting rocks and such is impressive. im bettin they fly at near 1400 FPS in my 24 inch barrel which should be just dandy if they come in with the accuracy dept.
next im going to try to get some loaded up and bench them to see how they fair with as much of me outta the picture as I can.
if these things are accurate then I can see another Accurate Mold coming my way soon from Tom. wonder if I can send him a boolit to copy? be nice to not have the stupid pin to dink with and a 2 cavity mold to speed stuff up a bit. ... yea I know ... I am spoiled with all the double cavity molds from Tom and his great workmanship.
.458 ... who woulda guessed it. and the super thing is that the leading just about went away ... tho not completely ... maybe a harder alloy or maybe I need another lube for these ... something to mess with at any rate.
so having a 457122 hp Lyman mold that I simply detest using as the pin that I clipped off for deleting the stupid hollow point but still gotta mess with the pin anyway ...[gonna silver solder that stupid pin solid in 1 half one day].
took the aggravating thing out and cast a few of the now 349/350 grain solid boolits. with 20 or so in hand I sized em in a lose .459 inch die and lubed the grooves with SPG. after flairing the mouth on 15 cases that were fire formed to my chamber ... I loaded them over 20 grains IMR 4227 powder for a full 100% load under the seated boolit. I seated the boolit so that they are 1.600 inch OAL so they would work thru the action. crimping them tight to the boolit nose I ... in trepidation ... took em out for some snap shooting to see how they would act.
perfect is all I can say. they are fair on the recoil dept. with just enough umgh to know you shot something but no obnoxious. after getting the trajectory down I could hit whatever I wanted to and the smack upon hitting rocks and such is impressive. im bettin they fly at near 1400 FPS in my 24 inch barrel which should be just dandy if they come in with the accuracy dept.
next im going to try to get some loaded up and bench them to see how they fair with as much of me outta the picture as I can.
if these things are accurate then I can see another Accurate Mold coming my way soon from Tom. wonder if I can send him a boolit to copy? be nice to not have the stupid pin to dink with and a 2 cavity mold to speed stuff up a bit. ... yea I know ... I am spoiled with all the double cavity molds from Tom and his great workmanship.
.458 ... who woulda guessed it. and the super thing is that the leading just about went away ... tho not completely ... maybe a harder alloy or maybe I need another lube for these ... something to mess with at any rate.