Man I think 300 Ham'r is the ideal AR cast bullet caliber. Slow twist straight from the factory, lots of 110-135 grain spitzer molds. Definitely gonna be easy to get good accuracy with full power...
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Man I think 300 Ham'r is the ideal AR cast bullet caliber. Slow twist straight from the factory, lots of 110-135 grain spitzer molds. Definitely gonna be easy to get good accuracy with full power...
Forum: Cast Boolits
If you're getting a KKM make sure to get a slower twist. I believe KKM makes 9mm barrels in any twist you want up to 30". 9mm with 10" twist is WAY overspun for a cast bullet. 10" twist could shoot a...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Your toughest balancing act is an alloy hard enough to give you good accuracy and ride the riflings instead of skidding, but also be soft enough to mushroom at extended ranges. 30 cal is the hardest...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I prefer 7.5 for doves out to about 40 yards. Really hard to find, and the best for 50 yard dove killin', is #7 shot. I picked up a case a few years ago of some Winchester 1 1/4 oz 3 1/4 dram (so...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Don haunts the castboolits hunting forum, constantly discouraging people from trying to hunt with castboolits on the castboolits hunting forum, but this time I gotta say I am completely in agreement...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
CCI makes a 50 grain soft point, and I think a 40 gr FMJ. I think one of them is called SGB (small game bullet).
Shoot them in the neck-spine or brain on broadside shots. But even a 22lr would...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Before you shoot an animal you should ask yourself "do I have enough penetration?" If the answer is yes, then you should ask yourself "do I have enough energy? If the answer is yes, then you should...
This is the best advice so far. I also am a fan of skipping right from 9mm to 45. No need for 10mm when you can shoot a 200 grain .325 meplat at 1100 fps at standard pressure with Power Pistol. I...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Energy tells you the volume of the temporary stretch cavity. Hypothetical numbers but lets say 1000 foot pounds gives you a stretch cavity that, at its maximum size, might hold 2L of water. If you...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I can't help you too much for the data, but I saw on another site where guys were using higher pressure loads for bolt guns, maybe using 460 data. There was even a company that was selling special...
Forum: Leverguns
I just ran my numbers again. For my 150 yard zero I am 1.75 high at 50 but it is 2.6" high at 100, dead on at 150 and 6.7" low at 200.
For a +/- 2" maximum point blank range zero at 137 yards and...
Forum: Leverguns
I was unable to get deer-type of penetration out of the HP at rifle speeds. Even the cup point wanted to come apart. We are talking speds of 1800-2000 fps at the muzzle.
The varmint HP was...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
The only thing about the heavy solid is they make the smallest wound out of any bullet option. He wants them down in under 75 yards. If he misses bone or only takes out the offside leg, that deer can...
Forum: Leverguns
I would say maybe with your load, but definitely not with a full power type of load. You can shoot a 158 at 1400 with about 8 grains of fast powder like Power Pistol. Use 16-18 grains of slow powder...
Forum: Leverguns
I like to sight mine in 1.75 inches high at 50, 2 inches high at 100, dead on at 150 and 7 inches low at 200. That is with my main load of a 158 gr with Lil' Gun at 2050 fps.
38 specials get...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Well if you want them to drop in their tracks you need a way bigger gun. 1200 foot pounds will only make so big of a temporary stretch cavity, whether you use it all up in 12" or stretch it out to...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have found no lube groove molds to be slightly less accurate, especially in plain base form. With no groove for displaced metal to move to, the recovered plain base NLG bullets show a skirt at the...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
One thing I would like to add to the discussion is that 158s are a great bullet weight in the revolver when your alloy and impact speed let the meplat grow a little bit. An alloy between 11 and 13...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I highly recommend the 158 gr weight bullets for rifles, and I like 180 HP or a light 135 Ranch Dog Solid in revolvers.
I personally have killed about 17 deer with the 357 rifle and most of them...
Forum: Cast Boolits
How much sight adjustment do you have? If you go much heavier you might not be able to zero the load. Would you be okay with hitting 6" high at 25? That might be all you get with a 350 grain bullet. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hey buddy you got that mold pretty messed up with lead splatter. One time I nearly ruined a mold (I thought at the time) when I fumbled a cold 2 cavity mold and dropped it in the lead pot. It came...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Your barrel probably has light chatter marks everywhere except below the dovetails. You probably had constrictions and now the areas below the dovetails are shinier than the rest of the barrel. A...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I had to go find my loaded ammo with small primer ACPs so I can shoot some 45s and reload this summer. Large pistol primers are still unavailable or $150 per thousand.
I had 400 loaded rounds...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Weight changes dramatically in big 45 molds. My 453-345 WFN from Mountain Molds has cast as high as 357 grains with 1-1-98 alloy and as light as 339 with 3.5-3.5-93 alloy. This mold is specced for WW...
Now if you are not getting resized when you seat the bullet in the case, your bullet is going to hit the barrel at full size. You might now want to slug the barrel to see if you have any...
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 |