I used info from this to get started
http://www.ar15barrels.com/data/300-221data.pdf
Matt Hooper
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I used info from this to get started
http://www.ar15barrels.com/data/300-221data.pdf
Matt Hooper
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When I get to my notes l will post the info.
Forum: Military Rifles
I sure like my 300 blackout with lead.
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Forum: Hunting with CB's
No deer yet, but the first time to use lead boolit on a coyote I was 42. It was a 308 with saeco 307 1400fps. Called with in 30yds
But a better story is my friend Pat from San Anglo tx. At 14 He...
Forum: Cast Boolits
X101airborne
I'm very interested in your baffle strike story as I am filling out my form 1 to build a surpressor. What twist was your whisper barrel? My blackout is 1 in 8". Waiting on the form...
Forum: Cast Boolits
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I had a piece of lead drippings get under this adj. screw once. Had me scratching my head for bit. symptoms same as you.
Matt Hooper
Forum: Cast Boolits
I'm a boolit caster. I have AR-15s. So I got me a 300blk barrel and have been playing around with different boolits and bullets.
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Left is rcbs...
The larger dia. Of the black out neck is for the resulting thicker neck from resizing 223 brass. Sizing up 221 gives a neck with thinner brass, and is what the whisper idea was about.
That is my...
Forum: Cast Boolits
S&W refunded me my money for the gun. They said all barrels were the same because of their manufacturing process so a replacement would be the same. They offered to take the gun back, and I accepted...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
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I can make Better shot with hy oil or brake fluid but I can't make the volume in the Same time or...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Some pics
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I use hot water to drop into, 185-190 deg. I have four magma ladles around a 55gal drum, with double drippers size 7.5. Two electric hot water heater elements in the drum for heat. It takes about 2...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Clip-on works great. 75% clip-on 25% stick-on is troublesome for me, so I only use clip-on. Backstop metal works fine also. I assume your talking about magma ladle or similar. What fluid are you...
Forum: Leverguns
I'm trying to get a rerun of this mold started here.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=132362
I missed the first one
Matt Hooper
44man.
What did you not like about the marlin 44mag? Was it a lever?
Matt Hooper
Forum: Cast Boolits
here is the original thread
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=127717
Well S&W called me today. We talked and decided a refund was going to be best for both of us.
They said...
Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
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Forum: The Star Equipment Corner
I have one and I enjoy it. I can cast while leaning back with my feet on the table watching a movie. Hovering over a lee pot puts a knot in my back
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Forum: Cast Boolits
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Forum: Cast Boolits
HDS
It's not a divot but a hump. It causes problems when the hump indents the boolit, the boolit passes the hump then gas rushes past the dent in the boolit, gas cutting the boolit. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I Called S&W, got through to frank. I explained my dissatisfaction in my gun. He said to send it back " Att. Frank" and he would walk it back to the shop himself. I sent a long letter plus lots of...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I started casting for 22-250 with NOE 225107 37g and 22-055 55g. I'm still waiting for size dies to get here. wd ww+tin. bought a new marlin X7VH 22-250 26" heavy barrel 1 in 14 twist to shoot...
Forum: Cast Boolits
who makes the 22cal boolit holder that holds the bullet while you turn the base? I read about it then lost it. 37 grain 22cal boolits are very small and hard to hold.
Forum: Cast Boolits
The forcing cone is not the problem. It's the rocket shaped thing in the bore between the lands is tall than the bore and indents the boolits as they pass over it.
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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 |