Recent prices for .416 Rigby ammo that I’ve seen run from $175-210 for a box of 20. They can be reloaded FAR cheaper than that.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Recent prices for .416 Rigby ammo that I’ve seen run from $175-210 for a box of 20. They can be reloaded FAR cheaper than that.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Dunno much about the .45-70 game but hard alloys are not necessary. BP works with stuff as soft as 30:1, and I'd not try smokeless with anything harder than 12 BHN, most likely something in the 10...
Forum: Cast Boolits
BINGO! The Lee Hardness tester is functional and if used properly, reasonably accurate. They are not expensive. Guessing is not the path to success.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Ok, if one filled a container with snow what portion of the volume would be air? For sake of the discussion pretend we are talking about dry snow. I ask only because it is virtually impossible to...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Well, rice might work if the box had a roof and a solid end. If one has any talent it isn’t a tuff trick to make the top cover a slide in fixture.
Bottles of sawdust? The weakness is the...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Back in days gone by the catcher’s mitt was a wooden box 8-10’ long 12-18” square, filled with damp sawdust. The sawdust does not deform the bullet much if any. Difference between sawdust filled...
Forum: Cast Boolits
What Slobalt asked about ain't that tuff to do. 1) Cast bullets can be quite precise if one does the homework. The gun/load combo that fired the target below has the same zero at 20 & 50 yards...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Pigs don’t care for my .22’s. Varmints likewise.
Forum: Hunting with CB's
My experience with 20 & 12 ga Forster slugs on deer and hogs tells me to expect a flop after the whop. Every time. Never gut shot anything with them except a buzzard little over 50 years ago. ...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Never found much use for hollow points, but there is some benefit to general form and alloy hardness.
300 grain pure lead wrapped in a bit of paper for the 77/44. MV ballpark 1,600 fps....
Forum: Cast Boolits
l suggest your alloy for the .38-55 is too hard. Knock it down to about BHN 11-12.
Inclined to expand my earlier comment a bit with hope some might see a small light at the end of the tunnel. Firearms are tools, nothing more. It is up to the craftsman to employ it successfully...
To be clear, the round ball loads and 311041 targets were shot with a wildcat I call the .30 Sneezer. It's a .357 case necked to .30 caliber and has approximately the same case volume as a .30...
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CCI 500 primers, 20 yards, Hornady .310" round balls w/light smear of SPG lube
1.5 gr Bullseye, Avg 719 fps .79" for 5 shots
1.8 gr Bullseye, Avg 881 fps .73"...
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All ballistic problems have a solution, it's up to the wanker with the problem to figure it out. List of variables runs from here to hell and back a couple times I'd think. Broad stroke of the...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Don't be askeerd of Lord Black, or heavier bullets. The "-75" at the end of the cartridge ID is a hint.
I load my .45-70 with 65 gr of 1.5FG.
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And some factory bullets for the .25-20 Win.
...and a little more.
2 bullets short of 10 boxes of Montana Precision Swaging bullets. 5 boxes (50 ct) are flat base, the other 5 are cup base....
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Depending where you wind up in the afterlife you might get to debate that with Crockett, Boone or maybe Hugh Glass. Good luck, you might need it.
.310" ball from Hornady
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One of a half dozen loads tested:
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They all worked and inside 25-30 yards would smack the average...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Paper patched pure lead, MV 1,600 fps. Shot taken at 80 yards, 160# doe didn't take a step. Under the hide off side after breaking both forelegs, 5 ribs and cutting the heart in half.
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Forum: Hunting with CB's
Hot rodding the .30 Carbine? Why not.
Hodgdon data puts a 110 gr SP out the muzzle at about 2,075 fps in their labs, and does the same with mine using Li'l Gun. Nah, I don't jerk the trigger...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |