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sakodude
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sakodude
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Brought home the casting equipment from my dads and finally started messing around with it.
First batch done.
RCBS mold casting a 405 gr .458 round nose. Thinking these ought to be a hoot pushed by some TrailBoss powder.
I need to get the lube/sizer set up and then they will be ready to roll.
Sako
First batch done.
RCBS mold casting a 405 gr .458 round nose. Thinking these ought to be a hoot pushed by some TrailBoss powder.
I need to get the lube/sizer set up and then they will be ready to roll.
Sako
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-Mikhail Kalashnikov
That is what they look live after going through a basketball sized sandstone rock and digging 8" into wet earth behind it. The "short" deformed bullet without the petal weighs 259 grains. That is a 500gr bullet. They work!
What powder are you using?
Sako
Let me know if you want to try them, I'll send you a few.
Sako
Figured it was easier to re-learn casting with something big:jester: I cast a few .58 cal Minnie bullets as well. Unfortunately, I have nothing to shoot those out of..... Yet!
Sako
Ps after looking closer load up a dummy and measure it. It may have a short enough nose. Might.
That was my concern. I had some 500 gr laser cast bullets that cycled fine so I'm hoping! I will do a dummy first. Guess if they don't fit then my brothers rifle gets a work out.
Sako
Believe me, I know! made that mistake once with a 300 gr Barnes X, had to disassemble to get that sucker out:bang:
Sako
Still ought to be a pleasure to shoot with some trailboss.
Sako
It's an RCBS mold. Anyone know if it can be sent back for repair?
Sako
I'll take you up on that if your serious. A CPJ customized mold:jester: It looks like a gas check design so worst case it becomes a plain base, reduced power mold.
PM me an address please and I get a project out to you.
Thank you for the offer.
Sako
Yep...but not quite as big as the 535 grain Postells I shoot in my Sharps...
I keep to 405 grain rnfp for my 1895 CB.... Along with some 300 grain cast lead hollow points...
Have you perchance considered the chamber pressure you are generating running those through your lever gun?.....Just some thinking on my part...
If you missed it above, I discovered these are infact 405's. I thought I recalled my dad saying this mold was a 500 so that is what I originally called them.
The 500gr laser cast I have shot before were loaded rather tame so I doubt chamber pressures were ever a concern. But I do however appreciate your concern.
My rifle is an 1895 CB as well but punishing loads are not my thing anymore.
My go to load if I ever get the chance to hunt with this rifle uses the Hornady 350gr rnsp.
All other shooting with this rifle will be fun trailboss loads.
Sako
While CPJ may act like a "jack-wagon", I've seen enough of his work to have faith in him pulling it off :beer:
And it once again shows why this place ROCKS :worthy:
Jerry
to be honest Teach, I don't know for certain. These were cast from ingots marked SAECO as you see in the photo. I dropped them into cool tap water, not iced and they still scratch with a fingernail. I don't know it they are commercial ingots or my dad poured them. I found no ingot mold so marked. The blank ingots I know are W/W metal, we poured those 20 some years ago. The other bars you see are commercial I'm sure but composition is unknown. the particularly shiny bar is very hard, wont scratch at all. The chunk with the pipe in it is I'm told, from an old pipe organ and is supposed to be pure lead.
Any thought on any of this?
Sako
Here's a before and after pic of 250 grain SWC fired from a 6" Blackhawk convertible into a stack of wet newsprint. I've got a similar pic somewhere of a 300 grain hardcast from the same gun with the .45 Colt cylinder, fired into the same medium at around 1300 FPS that only has rifling engraved- - - -no expansion at all.
Jerry
I can certainly do that with what I know to be W/W material. Thanks for the recipe. Any idea what the hard shiny stuff might be?
Sako
Jerry