Casting for 30-06 Garand

[primerhead]

Hello friends:

Please recommend a mold for the 30-06 Garand.

Thanks
primerhead

[Thumbcocker]

311299 sized to .311. 4895 is your friend.

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[Larry Gibson]

^^^^^^

What Thumbcocker said.....

[frkelly74]

I have used the Lee 312 155 over Accurate 2520 with a little tuft of batting with pretty good result. But I have a boatload of M2 150 gr to shoot up so I will be using those.

[farmbif]

don't have a garand but 311299 works great in my old 700 and 760 30-06 Remingtons

[45-70 Chevroner]

The 06 is a very versatile cal. even in the Garand. I used several different cast loads in the Garand I had and they all shot well, I remember though that the heavier weight boolits shot best. As another poster said, 4895 is your friend. You will probably have to clean out the gas port every once in a while.

[Bad Ass Wallace]

My formula for the Garand was a 210gn Lyman 311284 over 31.5gns of 3031. This load will cycle the action and dump the empties at your feet!

[mehavey]

311299 -- though a superb 30-06 bullet -- won't fit into the magazine well of the Garand as a full en bloc.
Use the Lyman 311332 instead
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?336201-Garand-Cast-Heavy-Classics-(311299-284)

https://i.postimg.cc/nLmfNs2q/Garand-311332-AA2495-sm.jpg

[Thumbcocker]

311299 -- though a superb 30-06 bullet -- won't fit into the magazine well of the Garand as a full en bloc.
Use the Lyman 311332 instead
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?336201-Garand-Cast-Heavy-Classics-(311299-284)

https://i.postimg.cc/nLmfNs2q/Garand-311332-AA2495-sm.jpg
Works fine in mine. Great shooting BTW.

[mac1911]

311299 -- though a superb 30-06 bullet -- won't fit into the magazine well of the Garand as a full en bloc.
Use the Lyman 311332 instead
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?336201-Garand-Cast-Heavy-Classics-(311299-284)

https://i.postimg.cc/nLmfNs2q/Garand-311332-AA2495-sm.jpg

Really? Wonder why yours wont fit. Im about to load some now.

[Larry Gibson]

The 311299 always fit in several M1 mags in the enbloc clip I used it in........

[Thumbcocker]

Yup.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210627/c6f02e15e44e2476a3d82fa4759862f7.jpg

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[Kraschenbirn]

Lee 309-200 works well for me using several different powders...4895, AA2700, H414, etc.

Bill

[mehavey]

It would fit in the en bloc.
But the en bloc w/ more than 4 rounds would not fit in the magazine well w/o binding up side-to-side near ogive.

This may be a manufacturing variation issue that hits a segment of the Garands,
but there were enough of them that it was a known problem.

Whatever works is the solution... but see if you can beg/borrow steal some 311299s before investing to much in a mould ...for a GARAND.
(For anything else -- bolt actions or 308s -- even an AR-10 -- the 311299 is the cat's meow.

[GregLaROCHE]

I’d get one of these molds to start with, if you can find one.
https://leeprecision.com/mold-dc-c309-180-r.html
I always used 3031 powder. Maybe someone has a powder that gives better results. 3031 is what I always had around and seemed to work well.

[John Boy]

Either of the Ideal Harry Pope 311403or the Ideal 311413 bullets
http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohland/Cast_Bullet/Ideal-Lyman_Molds/Ideal-Lyman_Mold_Descriptions.html#311_30_mold

[charlie b]

I use a 210gn version of the Eagan bullet. Accurate 31-210E. A little longer than the 311299 and it still feeds fine through the magazine of my Garand.