Those bullets were "grand experiments", mainly to answer a couple of questions I had about fit and bore riding patches. I traded the rifle, before I bought a lathe and could fix it's .302x.310"...
Type: Posts; User: geargnasher
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Those bullets were "grand experiments", mainly to answer a couple of questions I had about fit and bore riding patches. I traded the rifle, before I bought a lathe and could fix it's .302x.310"...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Isn't it odd that taper-matching .308 Winchester bullets often shoot as well or better in the long, gentle leades of the '06.....and that the opposite is also true, such as the XCB bullet in a .308? ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I believe the assumption that Remington ever cut anything near a SAAMI-spec .308 Winchester chamber, particularly in the past couple of years, may cause you some headaches. Waco's new 700 has a...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Thank you, Waco.
Post 17 here is Outpost75's description, for further reading: http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?355708-Cast-bullet-size
Edit to add, Outpost75 also included in...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Goodsteel learned all that with a great deal of help from some other people who have been doing it for a long lifetime, but are no longer here on the forum.
I believe Outpost75 has also been doing...
Forum: Smokeless Paper Patching
Well this is neat! I'm late to the party, but since I drew that mould up in the first place, not really knowing what I was doing, let me at least explain my idea behind it.
The first one was the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
They're all good powders, you just need to experiment some if what you try first doesn't work out. With the bullet shape and alloy I tend to use most, H4350 never would get good groups in one of my...
Forum: Cast Boolits
A detailed dimensional drawing of a chamber cast from your rifle would eliminate a tremendous amount of speculation. If you are unfamiliar with the impact impression procedure, there are threads on...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Maybe understanding what Felix World Famous Lube really is will help. It's technically a 20% sodium grease/80% beeswax lube, similar to "Lithi-Bee" which is a lithium soap grease and beeswax lube. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I doubt it. If it leads up again right away you'll know Runfiverun was right. Generally "barrel slugging", a waste of time as far as I'm concerned, is done with an oiled, dead-soft lead slug. Soft...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
No one has mentioned the most important considerations for lube selection: Storage and operating temperatures. Pick your lube based on that, because anything will work for the calibers listed. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
How many clicks was that for you at 500, Waco? I saw you spinning in a bunch of drop in the video.
Gear
Forum: Cast Boolits
303Guy and Messybear explained it the way I would. You get the same thing when using fillers that prevent any gas leaks around the bullet body inside the neck, leading me to conclude that the powder...
Forum: Cast Boolits
A "system" which functions acceptably at 1600 fps is liable to generate some false conclusions about fit and a host of other things, unless the operator also understands the necessary mechanisms of...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Remember the MagnetoSpeed will affect barrel harmonics to some degree, try your groups with and without.
Gear
P.S. I have the sane question for Tomme.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Heck, I done it WITH fancy re-gelled lubes that scored in the 30th percentile against the lube Larry and Waco and a bunch of other HV shooters are using, so yeah, you can do it with stuff you can buy...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Yes, good job indeed, to Waco and Larry both, I mean it.
It wasn't all that long ago that any claim of 2.5 MOA linear to 500 yards at 2250 fps mv from a bone-stock action/barrel available to any...
Forum: Cast Boolits
"doesn't seem to have been addressed yet" was sarcasm, in your and AggiEE's defense. Sorry, I forgot to put it in purple, it's been a while.
Gear
Forum: Cast Boolits
Yes, you are, but least of all on my account. I enjoy watching others doing more than the usual with an off the shelf rifle action and barrel and ordinary, cast bullets, it's a favorite pursuit of...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Waco, I've been watching, with great interest. Your long-range work is well past what I've ever attempted and I'm really fascinated by the things you're experiencing and challenges you're working...
Forum: Shot Loads For Pistols
Since there is a forum dedicated to this now, some of the adventurous may find this interesting: http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?77286-Revolver-shot-loads-that-WORK!
Gear
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Fascinating work, Bama.
You discovered something which is all but lost on most who attempt to shoot cast bullets accurately at high speeds, and I want to point out its importance whether you...
Forum: Factory Rifles
The whole problem is getting wrapped around the axle of slugging the bore in the first place. Make a pound cast (search the forum for Goodsteel's thread on a good way to accomplish this) and size...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Wow, 25"? That's pretty tight, but the Greenhill formula was developed for artillery in the first place so those boys knew what they were doing.
All I know about artillery is from a fired...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Because of this: http://www.derailingfordummies.com/
They're taking turns at it.
Gear
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 |