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Rifle practice with large calibers and expensive ammo.
- Thread starter delboybc
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No worries, problem solved.....
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- Southern Vancouver Island
I use cast in all my rifles from .30-30 to .458 Win. for hunting and plinking. I get plenty of shooting in and save a pile of dough over using factory ammo. The best part of handloading is the tailoring of each load for the job intended. Tooling up for handloading ain't too expensive if one knows a few folks that have lots of gear to thin out, or checks out nearby gun shows.
Cast bullets and reduced loads pay off well in the big bores. Easier on the shoulder & wallet and they are a ton of fun to smash pest critters with.
Cast bullets and reduced loads pay off well in the big bores. Easier on the shoulder & wallet and they are a ton of fun to smash pest critters with.
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
I use cast in all my rifles from .30-30 to .458 Win. for hunting and plinking. I get plenty of shooting in and save a pile of dough over using factory ammo. The best part of handloading is the tailoring of each load for the job intended. Tooling up for handloading ain't too expensive if one knows a few folks that have lots of gear to thin out, or checks out nearby gun shows.
Cast bullets and reduced loads pay off well in the big bores. Easier on the shoulder & wallet and they are a ton of fun to smash pest critters with.
Cast bullet loads, in addition to jacketed loads is a good option and one I use, primarily in the straight wall cases though such as the 444 Marlin, 45-70 and 458WM. They work well for me in a few others like the 348WCF a;so. I used to cast but now get mine from a friend and site member who is into cast in a big way.
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- Southern Vancouver Island
Bullet Barn is yer friend for good performing cast boolits if one gets bored of pouring out their own. I use BB for most of my boolits except for 12 gauge projectiles & other cals. they don't offer.
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
Bullet Barn is yer friend for good performing cast boolits if one gets bored of pouring out their own. I use BB for most of my boolits except for 12 gauge projectiles & other cals. they don't offer.
I did used to cast as a necessary evil when I was into some fairly serious paper punching but it is the one aspect of reloading I never really cared for. A few years ago when I first got my 500 S&W, components were sometimes hard to come by. This guy locally was my first reliable source for cast bullets for it and in a variety of weights. Quality is good, variety, good and for decent prices. In addition, as he's close by it's easy to arrange to pick up the goods. Didn't take long for me to start getting all my cast needs supplied by him. He's got quite a set-up and I believe he also supplies a lot of the Cowboy Action Shooters locally.
maybe because i m considering having never enough ....
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- Southern Vancouver Island
Yeah, I read ye on the .500 S&W. Had a Handi Rifle in that one a while back and cast me own using a Lee mold. Worked great. Good to have numerous options fer lead tossing.
- Location
- Calgary, AB
Bullet Barn is yer friend for good performing cast boolits if one gets bored of pouring out their own. I use BB for most of my boolits except for 12 gauge projectiles & other cals. they don't offer.
Going to have to try some in my .460Wby for range plinking
burnt_servo
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- right in the middle of b.c.
costs aside , try putting a bag of lead shot between the rifle and your shoulder when firing it ... it might feel awkward at first but after a few rounds , less awkward and your shoulder will be less sore the next day .
there are a bunch of other things you can do as well .
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
Going to have to try some in my .460Wby for range plinking
I believe it was a 530gr that worked fairly well in my 458WM.
- Location
- Calgary, AB
I actually found some 405gr that I bought awhile ago for a 45/70 and forgot about. Going to try them with some Trail Boss.
The way to deal with that is to spray paint the targets, then give yourself a smaller painted target or 3 on it. This converts the gong into a big shoot n see target. Miss the dot and at least you know where the miss went.
I wish I had more bigger steel targets for my range. I've got a 24 X 32 inch at the 800 yard line. I put three black dots on it so I don't have to wear my quad out constantly repainting it. With a decent rifle hitting the whole plate somewhere isn't much of a trick; and that gives an instant feed back on a sloppy wind call. I can learn just as much or more from the misses, but only if I know where they went.
Relatively mild cast loads in a four five eight do a bang-up job of simulating the recoil of little pop- guns like a hot loaded .300 or .338 mag. Toss a few thousand of those around from offhand and other field positions and it'll reset your recoil meter from "it hurts" to "shooting is fun". It does the same thing for your wallet.
If you are pressed for time a couple full power .458 Lott loads will recalibrate your shoulder to the point where a 30-06 doesn't even register. When you find out what won't kill you, it gives perspective on those that you used to think hurt.
If you are pressed for time a couple full power .458 Lott loads will recalibrate your shoulder to the point where a 30-06 doesn't even register. When you find out what won't kill you, it gives perspective on those that you used to think hurt.
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Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
Relatively mild cast loads in a four five eight do a bang-up job of simulating the recoil of little pop- guns like a hot loaded .300 or .338 mag. Toss a few thousand of those around from offhand and other field positions and it'll reset your recoil meter from "it hurts" to "shooting is fun". It does the same thing for your wallet.
If you are pressed for time a couple full power .458 Lott loads will recalibrate your shoulder to the point where a 30-06 doesn't even register. When you find out what won't kill you, it gives perspective on those that you used to think hurt.
I mentioned in a previous post, a selection of cast I have available in a variety of weights, primarily for use in the 458WM and 45-70.
These are them. 
The first thing you do is learn to reload and that will usually cut the cost in half at least. Bullets are the biggest expense. Reduced loads don't save much $ but they make for fun plinking and practising. I've shot about 300 rounds of 458 winmag this summer. They were all with cast bullets and about 50 of them were reduced loads. I cast my own bullets and that cost to about $75 per 100 rounds, or $15 for 20 rounds.
The reason I ask is because your cast bullets are a reasonably priced alternative to jacketed bullets for hand loading and you do cover many of the large calibre choices. I was hoping the 375 Win could be used in the H&H and Ruger.
