Ruger #1 416 Remington Mag
Well the #1 I have coming is a 416 rem mag. Does anybody have experience with paper patch in this gun? I'm looking at a mold from accuratemolds. #41-420CG What do you think of this design? I think I'd like to patch an as cast boolit but it seems that most people size first. Why is that? What diameter would you recommend? I read that bore diameter should be .408 so I was thinking .410 Thanks for the help.
Roy
PP gas check bullets...without the GC...
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Originally Posted by
Hardcast416taylor
As I said that some people patch a GC boolet and get decent accuracy, I don`t fall in with that crowd. I have tried doing that way, didn`t like the way the tail came out or for that matter how they shot. A flat base give a better gas seal immediately on firing than a GC wrapped boolet does and I believe better accuracy. Perhaps you aren`t leaving enough over hang of patch on the flat base and can`t make a decent tail "twist", or your patch is too damp and tears when doing a tail.
I designed the Accurate #32-200P mold with Tom for my 8mm Mauser, it really made a difference in my Mausers. I wrap .30 cals up thru the 7.62 Mosin Nagant round. I patch .338-06 and .338 Mag. with good results. The .375 H&H is the next to largest I patch. For the .416 cal. I have experimented patching "Fat .40 cal." boolets with decent results. The .416`s I patch for are the .416 Taylor on a Model 70 action and a .416 Russian Express which is a MN case necked up to .416 on a Nagant action.Robert
That makes sense! Never thought about the space where the GC usually goes giving the flame/powder granules a chance to destroy the paper tail before the bullet can 'upset' in the bore.