Here is what I find with a mic, Air cooled COWW cast, checked and sized to .335" approx 5-6 years ago measure grew .0005". When I sized them today in a .329" Lee push through sizer they came out a couple ten thousands LARGER than a .338 Speer Hot Core ran through the same sizer. Yes you read right cast ACCOWW spring back more than a speer Hot Core by about .0002". Hot core bullets drawn down 2 years ago have not grown or srung back, the opposite actually!
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I guess I need a couple HORNADY .338 bullets to draw down, then I would know for sure if they spring back, the Speer Hot Core bullets DO NOT by my findings with a verneer mic.
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I do have some .277 Hot Core bullets in 100, 150 and 170 gr, and some Hornady in 130 gr. Sizers in .271 and .266.
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Originally Posted by fgd135
well i'll be. i learned something new today. thank you.
i haven't research the carcano yet. i just stripped her down, cleaned it inside and out and i put her back together. now she's in my safe as rifle #7 or #8 to redo/repair/build.
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I would like to take full credit for this discovery but it is actually the work of a fellow shooter off of Accuate Forum from 2009 I believe, he had already experienced the Hornady "problem" think it was actually Sierra bullets he had the spring back problem with. I still am going to try the 277 bullets and see if the Hornadys spring back, I may just go as radical as I can, go .277 to .266 in one step and see what happens to each brand.
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For anyone interested, Grafs has Hornady .300 J-bullets listed for 7.35 as well as .330 for 8x56R (special runs, maybe?), in stock at the time of this post. They had correct diameter PPU .268 for 6.5 Carcano but those are sold out.
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..............Thank you for taking the time to report that.
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Yeah, I know such plebeian pursuits are beneath us, we wizards of the silver stream.Where's the fun in that?I think my post was less public service announcement and more affirmation of life, that there is something, anything, on the shelves out there.
It's pretty embarrassing that it took me ten years to make five posts. This is a good place to hang out and I can definitely see myself hanging out here more often, especially with the current lack of shooting resources forcing folks to make do with what we have. I'm happy to rise to the challenge: improvise, adapt, overcome. Like my distant ancestors I plan on using all of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
I haven't cast in a few years but the itch is back and my resurgent hand loading activities have even been piquing the interest of a young shooting acquaintance. Should be fun.
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Those 205 gr .330" Hornady's are 32 cents each, slightly cheaper than squeezed 338 Speer's! Graf's is where I got .268 Hornady 160 RN for the Carcano, they were bulk packed blems about same price. About a week ago the local Walmart ammo shelves were all but empty, couple boxes of 350 Legend, and a few boxes of 28ga and 16 ga shotgun shells, they had filled one of the shelves with BEAR SPRAY!
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Long rifles that were "sprorterized", like mine, lost the gain rifling.They will stabilize 100 grain or lighter projectiles. Size down 270 WIN .277 projectiles to .268.
Aim small, miss small.
I have done the same. You have to chuck in lathe, cut the rim off and plunge-cut a new extractor grove. I fire-formed mine with a small amount of pistol powder with a plug of wax. Graf and Sons usually carries PRVI brass -it is much simpler!
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