at 250 yards i can keep nice small grups.
What exactly is small groups in inches across the group???? What SIZE group in inches have you shot with these bullets at 100 yards????
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at 250 yards i can keep nice small grups.
What exactly is small groups in inches across the group???? What SIZE group in inches have you shot with these bullets at 100 yards????
at 250 yards i can keep nice small grups.
What exactly is small groups in inches across the group???? What SIZE group in inches have you shot with these bullets at 100 yards????
I hope to have some results this weekend.. I made up some 55's and some 60's.. I'm still working on a core mold.. I made one up using a blank 6 cav Lee mold and messed up when I made the cavities a tad too large.. I would prefer to use the core swage die instead of having to use the die where you can squeeze down the size of the core (can't remember the name of the die). The mold is dropping cores right at about 50 gr for a 60 ish gr bullet. Once I perfect the core mold, I may make up different molds in different sizes or just settle on one bullet weight. Undecided for now. All this with just a drill press, a drill press vice, and patience..
ok this was a target i shot last week sorry but its a 25 ft pistol target i use them for shooting a lot for ther chep this was at 200y for now the water was back up in the river cant walk to the outher side now lol and it was 5 shots
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/imag...f0faa94502.jpg
32.53mm
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/imag...f0faac32f6.jpg
and the spots i coverd up was 9mm lol i reuse targets if ther not too bad and that was done be for shooting it with 223 so i know if i hit the same spot 2
Wanted to let everyone know that i finally have the reamers to make a boat tail punch that will also do point uniforming all with 1 punch.
its a bottom punch with an ogive cut into it, so that you can put the projectile upside down, point down into the punch. when used with the point forming die, it will taper the bottom of the projectile for boat tail.. when the punch is used with the core seating die, it will uniform the point.. it will allow for smaller hollow points, sharper soft points, and soft hollow points.
the retail price for the punch is $40 shipping included.. $35 if combined with a die set order.
if anyone is interested feel free to make a payment to drickard@gmail.com in the description put "boat tail/point uniform punch"
i'll post some pics of the punch and projectiles sometime tomorrow.
thanks,
Dan Rickard
Owner of Kaine Dies.
Do you have a set of dies and the point form with boat tail die in stock?
they are made in batch's. and i'm always running new batch's to keep up with demand. i ask for a 3 to 6 week delivery time in case production company gets backed up.. but they could ship sooner than 3 weeks depending on where i am with a batch.
usually the batch's sell fast, so the best thing to do is put in an order with a payment.. you'll get it as soon as i have it.
thanks,
Dan
Dan,
How many sets have you sold to date?
here is a before and after picture of the projectiles
the boat tail / point uniform combo punch, used with the Core seating die to do point uniforming.
before
http://i44.tinypic.com/vgpeyp.jpg
after
http://i41.tinypic.com/2rrq54h.jpg
here are some pics of the punch.. sorry for the poor quality.
punch inside
http://i43.tinypic.com/2meuagm.jpg
punch outside
http://i40.tinypic.com/smmb.jpg
here is a picture of a before and after the boat tail operation done with one of the same projectiles. it may be difficult to see, before boat tail operation, the projectile will not finger lock into a sized case, but after there is a small taper to the base, that allows it to finger lock into a sized case. only about 1/8 to 1/4 inch of the base is changed by the point forming die.
before
http://i40.tinypic.com/111kwnk.jpg
after
http://i44.tinypic.com/2nknk5.jpg
the boat tail operation is done with the combo punch and the point forming die.
these operations are done after the projectiles are formed and sized.. then you would perform the point uniform and boat tail operations, then size once more to maintain correct sizing.
thanks,
dan
What's the diameter of the boat tail base?
its there, but difficult to see.. more of a taper tail than a boat tail.
mainly to aid for progressive loaders, and for easier single loading.
the original concept behind boat tails was to allow for easier loading, because you can set the projectile onto a powdered case, causing it to taper lock onto the case with slight amount of pressure. thus you no longer have to guide the projectile and case into a seating die.
later as time went on, the factory community bastardized the boat tail concept into "better accuracy" and made the boat tail angle much more angled and pronounced.
a greater angle can be done by pressing it into the point forming die further.
thus giving the base more of a taper. with the punch, you can decide just how much of a boat tail you want.
maybe this image will make the boat tail easier to see
http://i42.tinypic.com/23mm55.jpg
i could never explain just how difficult it is to get these images.. but i gave it my best try.
thanks,
dan
Not sure if it is just the photos but those look kinda crooked.
Are you planning on making a punch that makes a boat tail similar to these?
http://i44.tinypic.com/rbz192.jpg
No those are 80 gr .224's I believe. I will check.
Looks like they are "82.5 and then a Berger 75gr. then my 77gr," not mine mind you.
Again not my projectiles. Have not shot any of them. A post from another forum. I did look into them and it appears they can be shot out of an AR.
1) There are 70 sets of these out in the world...............
2) we've only had a few people respond that they have used them............
3) All the thousands of posts on this one specific subject.............
Where else have you sold them? They certainly weren't to only castboolit people.......... Are there some other forums that you can point me to, so I can take a look at responses?
I'm asking because I am looking to purchase a set similar to yours, but want to see evidence and recommendations from more than you and one or two other people. With 70 sets out there, it seems to me that I should be able to find some comments, good or bad.
Thanks for leads on where I can find others who have used them.