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Got a new mould to me around Christmas a Lyman 410-459 DC. Finally cast some it is a Keith style that came out about 220 gr with my alloy. I then PC'd them and loaded over 5.5 gr of Unique in Starline 41 Spcl cases. Last weekend got a chance to shoot and chrono them from my BH 4-5/8 and the Henry rifle. From the BH average velocity was 740 fps and from the Henry 940 fps.
Steve,
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normally that is a very accurate bullet from that mold. Killed my first deer with one
If you look over on GunBroker there are lots of commercial casters making nice bullets for .41...
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/740704970
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/744453802
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/740704880
New to this forum. Looking forward to hand loading cast boolits for my S&W Model 57 I bought in 1981. Have current order with Beartooth for 265 gr WLC GC hard cast. Not casting my own yet. I have been loading Grizzly 265 grainers when bear hunting here in North Idaho and for general protection when fishing in grizzly country.
Here's a photo of my hunting revolver:
Came across this caster the other day...looks like he has a lot of the MeHic designed bullet...at very very reasonable prices...
http://www.gtbullets.com/index.php?m...=index&cPath=6
Nice rig Dirtfarmer...how do you carry it?
I have two just like that...one 1964 and the other is a 70s vintage gun that was D&T for scope mounts. Whoever did the D&T was really thinking...he did not punch the holes all the way through the frame. So when the rear sight goes back on it is still prisitine...
Bob
Idaho is so beautiful... I got to spend a couple of months at a friend's cabin between Mackay and Challis in 2013 and 2014... Mount Bora was right across the street...
Hope to get out there again "soon"....
Bob
Bob, I shot my first mule deer as a teenager in 1971 between Mackay and Challis with an old Enfield 30-06 army surplus rifle. It's the one on the left of this photo. My Dad owned a fishing cabin in Mackay with Mount Bora "across the street". I live way north in Sandpoint, ID now, still beautiful place
I am packing a .41 more & more when in bear country which most of our mountains is.
Usually stoked with a good 220 WFP over IMR4227.
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Hey Frank!! Welcome back!
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Thank you I'm going to get back again from time to time.
I seem to have lost the thread killer forum. Can you tell me where it is?
Thanks.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Henry S. Haskins in “Meditations in Wall Street”
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." ...Unknown
Thanks, it was kind of a fun thread but padding did go on.
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...have not seen you for a while Frank...so what .41 have you been carrying?
Bob
Thanks Bob, it's an older lightly pitted, reblued, with a new bbl. 4" 58. I like it it travels well with a set of the old style "magna" stocks. It's been around the horn, but then so have I!
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Can't go wrong there...hopefully one of these days we will be able to shoot our 58s together...Bob
That would be fun. I've got an OLD set of wood stocks, my favorite kind, not S&W that I've drilled holes in the bottom the part that covers the frame on the bottom. I'm going to fix a lanyard to the holes around the frame for fishing. It's a favored six-gun though shows some neglect in the past. I've gotten seveal of our small ground squirrels with it. That was thorough.
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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 |