Hello All,
I have lurked around here for quite some time and registered a long time ago but this is my first post. I cast up a batch of soft point bullets using a 429421 mould and muzzle loader round balls as donors for the soft point. I followed the method that BruceB's posts had spoken of and the soft point was up to the first driving band. All was well and the bullets looked good up to the point of running them though the sizer and lubing them.
The first one I ran through lost the nose when I raised the ram on the sizer. The nose was stuck in the top punch and the base remained in the sizing die. It broke free right at the joint of the two metals. This happened on five out of twenty four bullets. I was planning on using these on my upcoming deer hunt but now I'm afraid of them. I'm worried that they could come apart in flight as they spin down range or some other such problem. Do I need to worry about this with the remaining bullets or am I just being paranoid? The remaining bullets made it in and out of the sizer fine but.....
Any advice would be helpful as I have the gun sighted in with this bullet style just straight cast and I really don't have time to load up JHP's and sight it in again and beyond that, I really wanted to use my own cast bullets.
Thanks,
Wolfgang