Hello,
I've not been here for a bit.
I cast balls for muzzleloaders, and I cast a couple different Lee designs for my .45acp pistols.
Recently, I acquired a Steyr-Mannlicher m95 in 8x56R, and I have questions:
First, I understand Lee makes a decent mold for a GC bullet. Can a gas check be installed with a Lee sizer? I've never done gas checks before.
Second, I was pan lubing but went back to tumble lubing with Alox. I made up a bunch of traditionally-lubed boolits once and they started turning white before I got around to shooting them all. Alox seems to protect that from happening. Does Alox work well at rifle velocities, or would I still have to lube the grooves with beeswax or similar?
Third, powder coating: How does powder coating work with velocities around 2000fps?
I'm pretty sure I can duplicate the factory 208grn loads with cast boolits. I'd like to experiment with driving lighter bullets a bit faster, say 150grn at 2500fps. I have some 150grn 0.323 flat-base j-word bullets left over from loading up some 7.92x57js rounds for a Gewehr 88/05. Do you think they'd obtruate enough to fill the 0.330" grooves (assuming they are, indeed, 0.330"?) If the barrel slugs bigger, would it work to resize 0.338" j-bullets down to whatever size it slugs to?
I really like this little carbine, probably as much as I like the Mosin. I just need to get some ammo made as I only have right now 14 rounds of surplus that I'm not crazy about shooting off.
Thanks for any help!
Regards,
Josh