Lee 6.5 Swede "Cruise Missile" in 6.5 Carcano

[bkbville]

Mine shoots about 2moa with Hornady FMJ's - about 140gn IIRC - but this is what keeps me wanting to get the beast to work with boolits.

The Hornady's are .264 - not the .268 "carcano" pills they make.

I've been shooting the CM's "as cast" (.2705) - I've been wondering if sized closer to bore if that would help? I don't have a sizing die for this though.

Boz/Jeff: How close to bore are you sizing these?

Still no luck on recovering these for inspection though - the last few of times I went to the range it was too busy to try such a project (maybe even slightly against the rules). I went yesterday, but the snow was up almost up to my waist.

[Boz330]

I'm shooting mine as cast, about .272 with my alloy. My rifle slugs .269. One thought here that I checked on mine is the boolit dia. after it was seated. The Lee dies take the ID of the case neck down to .262 so if the boolit isn't fairly hard the brass will shrink it. Mine didn't shrink any so that isn't the problem.

Bob

[JeffinNZ]

I size to .269 to match the throat. The bolt takes a small amount of effort to cam down as the bullets are so snug in the throat.

[Russ303]

I tryed some gator checks on my cm but they won't even fit on the bullet what is everyone using for checks?