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Does the unique burn evenly? What kind of accuracy are you getting with those loads?

So update time.

I went and checked a few more boolits and they're dropping at .315 at the front driving band. I made up a dummy round to test the waters. Seated with the top driving band and 2 micro bands exposed. Chambered in my long branch and when I removed the dummy, wouldn't ya know the whole front driving band has been swagged down to .314

Guess it fills the throat nicely. Hope the jump to the lands doesn't hurt it too bad. So I loaded 5 rounds with 5gr of trail boss which I will try this weekend from a bench at 25 yards and report back accuracy results.

I'm having trouble getting them to seat straight in the necks. :(
Any thoughts?
 
These loads were taken from Ken Waters Pet Loads and he stated that 4-4.5gr of Unique was ideal for this purpose.He also used the same bullets sized to .310 in his .30 calibers with near identical results.He also used a 8mm Nambu cast bullet in the 32-40 and .32 Special.The Hornady bullet was seated 2.60" I will picking up a box and messing with them soon as well. Harold
 
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oo,I just noticed you are shooting it in 303.I tried that.I have 2 groove 303 here and mine rifle just hates those short boolits.

I think it has something to do with 2 gooves more than caliber or design of boolit.Long boolit-no problem but short ones are no good at all.

Use trickler when you load up.With small charges like 5Gr even 0.2 Gr makes hell of a difference even with Iron Sights.
 
Now look what you made me do! :p. I was stumbling around in WSS in Saskatoon this afternoon and came across one of these moulds. I scooped one. I am a great fan of light rifle loads with cast bullets. I'll give this one a whirl in .303 and some others.

Thanks for posting, OP!! :)
 
kjohn-you won't regret it.I had few women and kids shoot it and they just love it.

Someone had a 13 yr old on the range last year getting bored to death with 22RL-I have them Swiss model 1911 ( long rifle) with ammo loaded with that boolit.
I gave him 20 rds to shoot and had really hard time getting my rifle back :)

BTW-if you like light plinkers Lyman 311410 is also good except about 2-3 times as expensive.On other hand that boolit will print really nice 3-4 inches at 100yrds unlike Lee TL314 ( 0 wind required ).
 
donor: I have fired of a nasty pile of Lee 93 gr. WW in a 30-30, plus scads of other weights in most .30 cal rifles. I use Lee moulds exclusively.
 
the lee molds are nice and cheap. i have tried a half dozen different boolits by buying lee molds as my introduction to casting. I bought the 90gr .314 because i needed a bigger diameter in my long branch. I was getting 2" groups at 25 yards with as cast .311 160 gr and .312 185gr using sub 10gr pistol charges. I was hoping for a little better than that. So ideally my goal for this load is 1" at 25 yards and potentially use this boolit out to 100 yards on a 12" gong. I will also need to look at buying a bigger diameter gas check mold as all of mine are too small. Im planning on .314 200gr RN so I can try and reach out to 600 yards with my long branch.

for your viewing pleasure.
 
First 5 were shot today. Very quiet, and all burned reliably. Even the 3gr of w231 burned good. Group size for the 5 rounds loaded with 5.0gr of trail boss was roughly 4-5" at 50 yards. An excellent start but room for improvement. As a bonus the 50 yard POI for those loads was only about 1-2" low from my 100 yard zero with my 160gr - 16gr 2400 load. Will be great for plinking

Jeremy
 
I found that mine wasn't filling out very well even after an hour of casting. I figured it was because I was casting outside in -10 weather lol

Your boolits look great!

I'm gonna try 4gr of trail boss next. See if that helps tighten up my groups.
 
I was cleaning my living room and found a couple waxed paper plates covered in these bullets. I guess I left them out to let the alox dry and forgot about them? I have no idea when I cast them and no memory of putting them in the living room on top of a book case. They're a little dusty but should still work fine. Also found maybe 40-50 .458" 340gr flat nose bullets along with them.

I think I need to clean more often.
 
I tried 3-5gr of trail boss with these. 4gr works best. Quiet like a .22
Should be good for plinking steel. The massive jump to the rifling doesn't seem to allow great accuracy. I might try to make a plinker with 314299 instead. Use my defect ones for that.
 
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First 5 were shot today. Very quiet, and all burned reliably. Even the 3gr of w231 burned good. Group size for the 5 rounds loaded with 5.0gr of trail boss was roughly 4-5" at 50 yards. An excellent start but room for improvement. As a bonus the 50 yard POI for those loads was only about 1-2" low from my 100 yard zero with my 160gr - 16gr 2400 load. Will be great for plinking

Jeremy
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What a handy-dandy load for rabbits and grouse!

There, I said the obvious.....
 
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