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That makes sense. I should have specified all bullets of the same finished diameter just to remove another variable.

Okay, say I worked up accurate loads for a .44 Special with the RCBS Keith using a powder coated boolit. If I were to then shoot a group with the same boolit conventionally lubrisized and another...

I would buy the 00 size -- .33 inch. Don't give up any more energy or penetration than you must.

Good points, fellas. In this neck of the woods, the shotgun sports -- skeet, trap, clays -- seem to be holding their own. There are quite a few participants in NRL and other rimfire, same for various...

Leadhead, I still don't understand what happened to handgun silhouette. It is easier for me to form a theory of why cowboy action shooting has fizzled.

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Lar, that's very interesting.

It's fun to have options. I'd rather have them than not. My 28-gauge CZ Bobwhite G2 has three-inch chambers, but all I am currently using it for is skeet, so no need.
As far as the three-inch 20...

Thanks for the intel, quilbilly. Hey, I have been to Quilcene and did some hiking in Scouts along the Dosewallips. Gorgeous country, if on the damp side. 8-)

With its WFN design, does this boolit remain accurate out to 200 yards and more? I have heard that WFNs tend to become less stable sooner in their flight than LFNs.

Nobade, I was thinking you used to be in New Mexico. I moved to Texas a couple of years ago from Alamogordo.
I plan to pursue this far enough to shoot the next match here on the first Saturday in...

PF: I would be shooting just for the fun of it.

15meter, that is a wonderful chain of ownership history!

Thanks fellas. I didn't know it. The only silhouette I shot -- 20 or more years ago -- was with scoped Contenders in 6.5 and 7mm TCU. Never ran a .44 for this, and when I hunted with a SBH I loaded...

Well phooey. Slugged the bore of this rifle made in 1902 and I get .303/.311. It came with 80 rounds of Wisconsin Cartridge bullets loaded with 180-grain .308 soft points over 32 grains of a ball...

Wondering what y'all are shooting from your .44 Magnums at the handgun silhouette matches. I might try giving this a whang with the CVA Scout 2 pistol.

Dagnab it. I was in Fredericksburg yesterday and forgot to stop at Texas Jack's.

Well Charlie, that is a mighty creative solution, I must say!

Well I ordered the Lee dies, so I guess I'll find out soon what size the expander ball is.

Doing further research it appears MostlyLeverGuns is right about barrel specs. I ran across a Terry Wieland article on the .303 in a 2019 issue of Handloader and he references an apparently...

Redhawk, I am assuming by your results that your rifle has the .300/.308 barrel specs? It is hard to pin down when and even if Savage went from .303/.311 barrels to .300/.308. Ken Waters reported...

The Lee mold is dropping a very nice bullet for me out of range scrap, running about 251 grains. I'll powder coat some of them and try them with 2400 and 5744.

Might have an early 1899 in the stable before long and have always wanted to load for and shoot this particular cartridge. I have a couple of Lee molds that ought to cover the bases whether a...

Me too. It was only 95 percent here. Hardly got dim.

What, and miss the eclipse? :smile: