Hello friends:
Please recommend a mold for the 30-06 Garand.
Thanks
primerhead
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Hello friends:
Please recommend a mold for the 30-06 Garand.
Thanks
primerhead
311299 sized to .311. 4895 is your friend.
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What Thumbcocker said.....
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.
don't have a garand but 311299 works great in my old 700 and 760 30-06 Remingtons
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.
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!
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/sho...s-(311299-284)
https://i.postimg.cc/nLmfNs2q/Garand...-AA2495-sm.jpg
Works fine in mine. Great shooting BTW.Quote:
Originally Posted by mehavey
Really? Wonder why yours wont fit. Im about to load some now.Quote:
Originally Posted by mehavey
The 311299 always fit in several M1 mags in the enbloc clip I used it in........
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Lee 309-200 works well for me using several different powders...4895, AA2700, H414, etc.
Bill
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.
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.
Either of the Ideal Harry Pope 311403or the Ideal 311413 bullets
http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohland/Cast_B...ml#311_30_mold
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.