Blammer
11-17-2008, 04:48 PM
Ok, it's not a group buy mould but hey, it's new to me.
I received a 429215 in the mail the other day. I received it very promptly from the guy I bought it from, and it was in excellent condition. Thanks Scrounger!
So I proceed to cast up some boolits with this out of WW's.
I sized em and lubed em, then proceeded to carefully load 5 rnds of 3 diff wts of powder charges. Had them all nicely lined in the box and labeled. As I was packing my ammo in the can to go shooting I tipped the box sideways. The flap opened and ALL the ammo and insides dumped right into the ammo box.
Well there was NO way to tell what was what.
So I did the next best thing.
Loaded one more round of each with the 3 diff powder charges. (wrote this on the case with a marker. :) )
These would be my "over pressure" rounds. If any of these showed signs of over pressure I'd have to disassemble the other 15.
With that and a bunch of other guns and ammo off to the range I went.
Well none of the 3 showed pressure signs.
So I set up a new target and proceeded to shoot all 15 shots into one target. Yes, it was pure random what powder charge I grabbed and put in the gun.
After I was done I was a bit surprised at the target.
This was a 220gr boolit with 20, 21 and 22gr of 2400 in my 44mag SRH.
Target is 50 yds.
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Targets/File0088.jpg
I think it's safe to say that any of the above are good enough. :)
These loads are a bit snappy for me.
Any recommendations for a "mild" load with this boolit?
I received a 429215 in the mail the other day. I received it very promptly from the guy I bought it from, and it was in excellent condition. Thanks Scrounger!
So I proceed to cast up some boolits with this out of WW's.
I sized em and lubed em, then proceeded to carefully load 5 rnds of 3 diff wts of powder charges. Had them all nicely lined in the box and labeled. As I was packing my ammo in the can to go shooting I tipped the box sideways. The flap opened and ALL the ammo and insides dumped right into the ammo box.
Well there was NO way to tell what was what.
So I did the next best thing.
Loaded one more round of each with the 3 diff powder charges. (wrote this on the case with a marker. :) )
These would be my "over pressure" rounds. If any of these showed signs of over pressure I'd have to disassemble the other 15.
With that and a bunch of other guns and ammo off to the range I went.
Well none of the 3 showed pressure signs.
So I set up a new target and proceeded to shoot all 15 shots into one target. Yes, it was pure random what powder charge I grabbed and put in the gun.
After I was done I was a bit surprised at the target.
This was a 220gr boolit with 20, 21 and 22gr of 2400 in my 44mag SRH.
Target is 50 yds.
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g81/blammer8mm/Targets/File0088.jpg
I think it's safe to say that any of the above are good enough. :)
These loads are a bit snappy for me.
Any recommendations for a "mild" load with this boolit?