I'd show you how the little one shoots but someone would ban me.
Gear
Not while you see "MOD" in my title block they won't.
Precision in the wrong place is only a placebo.
"Tim, remind me to tell you about "goat-azzes" next time you call. Best way I've found to tell that you're cutting the sprues at exactly the same time in the cooling cycle time every time."
Gear
Gear, Please share with the rest of us....
I'm a Happy Clinger.
I took a break from the intense research and developement tonight fellers. I had offered to cast up some Lyman 358430 RN for a feller, so I plugged in the bottom pour pot, and started casting. This was always one of my favorite molds, and I jumped right to my old pace intuitively (it's been 4 years since I walked with this old friend)
Fill
3 1/2" second freeze
cut
open, tap tap
shut
5 second count
fill........
Like clockwork.
I weighed about ten of these and they were all within 1.5gr (not bad for a mold I beat the living hell out of in my ignorant youth).
Life is good. I'm much better off for all this nit picking than before.
Precision in the wrong place is only a placebo.
Here ya go Tim, face your fears and they shall go away:
https://www.google.com/search?q=goll...g&ved=0CCsQsAQ
Don't laugh a guy I worked with looked like that.
Dang trolls......
OK Tim, did another batch and found 2 (out of ~150) that were 1 grain under the lowest of the rest. Obviously an outlier with a void. I will shoot these, standard load I've been using and see how they do at 100. My luck they will be right in the middle and no effect.
Whatever!
popper, it is not just the weight but the percentage that the weight represents. One grain with a 500 grain 45 caliber bullet and one grain with a 50 grain 22 caliber bullet is a big percentage difference even though they are both one grain.
.2 grains over/under 173 grains??I am not OCD nor anal. this is not needed IMHO
Maybe .5 or .6 then but ???? This is my hobby not obsession. I competed for over 15 years in ML competition 100,000 plus balls a year in 50 cal I separated for National match by .5 grains, all rejects shot in local matches and my average DID NOT CHANGE
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 |