8mm bullet!

[Blammer]

OK, I just got my custom mould in from NEI. It's number 89 in their catalogue.

I copied the dimensions and here is a drawing of it. I'll try to get some pics of the cast boolits up soon.

Thier drawing says 160gr. Mine wt at 170 gr.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Cast%20boolits/NEI170gr89.jpg

[Blammer]

Forgot to put in the engraving band dimension! rats! it's .323

[Buckshot]

............. I thought you were wanting a heavy one?

..............Buckshot

[Blammer]

I'm still interested in the TBS in 8MM.... a heavy if you will.

My 8x57 shoots the light wts too. I love 175gr Jacketed boolits in it so this 170 may be the ticket! There are not many choices out there for standard moulds. so I got a 4 cav with two cav of the 170 above and 2 cav with the 186gr. It's NEI's #92

I'll try to spec that one to a drawing too...

Another reason I wanted to try these was for the profiles, to help give me an idea of will and won't work as far as length and nose profile before I design a winner!

[Blammer]

Here is the other one.

with my alloy (ww's) it wt at 186gr

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Cast%20boolits/NEI185gr92.jpg

[Blammer]

The meplat is roughly a 50% one.

[GrizzLeeBear]

Good looking bullets. I have looked at those two when thinking about getting a milsurp Mauser. Is the .325 dia. in your drawing what is spec'ed or what they actually drop from the mold?

[Blammer]

.325 is what they drop from the mould with my WW's.

the diagram/explaination that NEI uses on their info is that they will be .003 larger than the specs.

So the info on #89 is .322-160-GC, meaning add .003 and that will be the mould dia. In this case .325.

[jtaylor1960]

I have a #92 which drops at about 196gr.I got a two cavity cast iron for my 32spl.The mold casts very well after getting it hot.