Cheshire Dave
12-29-2009, 11:34 PM
Bought a RB mould on the swapping forum a month or so ago. Got a chance to play with it today. I melted some Lyman moly lube mixed with candle wax in a tin can in a pan of water and poured it onto a couple of inches of water in a 5 gal bucket. This was supposed to give me a thin sheet of lube. It gave me a messy clump of stuff. It solidifided instantly. So I scratched my head and tried again. This time I poured the remelted lube into the small pan of hot water and let it cool. That worked great. You need a small enough pan that the lube can completely cover the surface the thickness you want. I ended up with a thin layer about .03 thick.
I cast out about 40 RB that miked .4585 out of WW. That was good, I was afraid they would be undersized. The first one I tried to be lazy and just popped the primer out of an unsized case and primed and loaded 5 grains of Tite Group.
I cut a cookie of lube from the sheet with the case mouth and seated the ball with my thumb. I pushed too hard and the ball fell into the unsized case.So I shoved it down onto the powder and shot it. Very mild report and hit 4" low at 15 yards.
Decided to do it right and sized some cases and expanded the mouths of the case so I could hand seat them below center line. Upped the charge to 7 grains Tite Group and gave them a crimp with My Lee crimping die. Moved the target out to 30 yards and the first 3 went into about 1 1/4 inches. Next I tried 7 grains or Universal Clays. Loaded 4 the first one was a squib and I had to check to make sure it got out the barrel,it did and the next 3 shot OK about 1 3/4 inch. Next I tried 7 grains of 700X . This was the load it really liked. The target was pretty shot up so I aimed at the nail in the corner. The 2nd shot took it out and all 3 were one big cloverleaf. About 3/4 center to center and dead on at 30 with the scope set for my hunting loads. Handed it over to my nephew and he blew the nail out of the other corner. He rubbed it in that it only took him one shot to do it.
My only concern is the wax lube cookie might melt into the powder in warm weather. Don't really want to use dacron filler because my main use for this is to plink out my shop door and I don't want to pick up the mess. I didn't chronograpth
any but they have a pretty sharp crack to them. I'm guessing 1300 or so. The balls weigh 137 grains from WW. Should be a good short range varmit load. We have some good size Nutria around here hope to try some out.
Next step is to try a double ball load. I'll let you all know how that works out.
Happy Holidays to all...
I cast out about 40 RB that miked .4585 out of WW. That was good, I was afraid they would be undersized. The first one I tried to be lazy and just popped the primer out of an unsized case and primed and loaded 5 grains of Tite Group.
I cut a cookie of lube from the sheet with the case mouth and seated the ball with my thumb. I pushed too hard and the ball fell into the unsized case.So I shoved it down onto the powder and shot it. Very mild report and hit 4" low at 15 yards.
Decided to do it right and sized some cases and expanded the mouths of the case so I could hand seat them below center line. Upped the charge to 7 grains Tite Group and gave them a crimp with My Lee crimping die. Moved the target out to 30 yards and the first 3 went into about 1 1/4 inches. Next I tried 7 grains or Universal Clays. Loaded 4 the first one was a squib and I had to check to make sure it got out the barrel,it did and the next 3 shot OK about 1 3/4 inch. Next I tried 7 grains of 700X . This was the load it really liked. The target was pretty shot up so I aimed at the nail in the corner. The 2nd shot took it out and all 3 were one big cloverleaf. About 3/4 center to center and dead on at 30 with the scope set for my hunting loads. Handed it over to my nephew and he blew the nail out of the other corner. He rubbed it in that it only took him one shot to do it.
My only concern is the wax lube cookie might melt into the powder in warm weather. Don't really want to use dacron filler because my main use for this is to plink out my shop door and I don't want to pick up the mess. I didn't chronograpth
any but they have a pretty sharp crack to them. I'm guessing 1300 or so. The balls weigh 137 grains from WW. Should be a good short range varmit load. We have some good size Nutria around here hope to try some out.
Next step is to try a double ball load. I'll let you all know how that works out.
Happy Holidays to all...