watkibe
11-12-2009, 03:54 PM
It's been a year since I got my Savage 111 in 338 Win Mag, and I have been trying to find the time, tools, and materials to shoot it with cast boolits ever since. I had to special order the sizing die from Lee, which took months to arrive. I had to order the gas checks directly from Hornady, and that took months also. The mold, a Lee 200 gr RNGC, was actually in stock. I tried shooting it with the boolits as cast (no checks), and then with just checks, still without sizing. My results were dismal, resulting in patterns rather than groups.
Yesterday I tried the sized, checked bullet with LLA and 35 grs of SR 4759. The first 3 shots were all in one ragged hole ! That's the kind of groups I get with this rifle shooting jacketed. It was at only 25 yards, since I have just moved to rural acreage where I can shoot, but don't have a longer range set up yet. At 100 yards, that group would still have only been one inch, so I am quite pleased with the way this project has turned out so far. Now for some longer ranges...
Yesterday I tried the sized, checked bullet with LLA and 35 grs of SR 4759. The first 3 shots were all in one ragged hole ! That's the kind of groups I get with this rifle shooting jacketed. It was at only 25 yards, since I have just moved to rural acreage where I can shoot, but don't have a longer range set up yet. At 100 yards, that group would still have only been one inch, so I am quite pleased with the way this project has turned out so far. Now for some longer ranges...