Hey, all,
I'm looking for a light, non-gas checked boolit mold for casting bullets somewhere around 100 gr for my 30-06 (FN M98 from the Colombian military -- Model 1950 -- originally chambered in 30-06) for plinking, maybe shooting squirrels. If I could get something accurate enough to shoot squirrels out to 40 yds, I'd be satisfied. These would be very light loads, almost squibs, so I'm thinking a plain-base boolit should be sufficient.
Not sure of throat/bore diameter of this rifle, but I may get some Cerrosafe and make a casting.
I was thinking about the Lee #90300 which makes a 93-grain plain-base bullet with diameter .311"
Something like this:
https://www.leeprecision.com/mold-dc-311-93-1r
Question: If a .311" diameter bullet is too big for my rifle and I need to go down to .309" -- is that a reasonable amount to be able to swage .311" bullets down in a bullet-sizing die? (I'm fairly new to making and shooting cast boolits.)
I already have Lyman 311332 which makes a 180-gr boolit for 30 cal, but 180 gr of lead just to pop a squirrel seems like a waste...
Thanks for any advice, and Happy Thanksgiving to all.
P.S. Why is it that whenever you're hunting deer, the squirrels are crawling all over you, but when you're hunting squirrels with a .22 -- the deer are pushing each other out of the way to sniff your boots?