carcano rifle
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Two-sixty-four, if I remember rightly. Standard Remington bulk-pack. Nice bullet.
Sure shot nice in the Model 41, though!
Jackets are nice and soft; bases expand very nicely when you smack 'em with a fast powder.
Sure shot nice in the Model 41, though!
Jackets are nice and soft; bases expand very nicely when you smack 'em with a fast powder.
. I have a bag of the 268 hornadys but I just recently found a smaller box of hornady 264 140gr spire points with the flat base and I am eager to try them.Thanks for that smellie. I have about 500 x 160 x .2645 cupro nickel, round nose, flat base, exposed lead, FMJ bullets left from a buy at International Firearms in Montreal, back in 1979. I used a slow powder with these bullets and my results were poor to say the least.
These bullets came in a package deal. Wooden tipped bullets over Rottweil flake powder, which turned out to be very good as a large bore pistol powder. They included enough bullets and #44 Bofors powder (IMR3031) to reload all of the bullets they sent me. I thought the poor accuracy was because of the heavy indentation from the crimp. Nope. It was from the powder I was using, IMR4350. I was being to cautious.
Just as you described in your informative post, when I used the powder they suggested, my groups shrunk from a scattered pattern, 10 inches at 100 yds, to slightly over MOA. I slugged the bore on that lovely 6.5x55, M96 Swede and it was .266. The indicators on the butt said it was as new, with a 0 strike. To make a long story short, with the fast powder giving the exposed lead base a kick, it caused the bullet to obdurate into the rifling very quickly and accuracy was everything I hoped for. Slightly over MOA groups with milsurp, pulled projectiles is nothing to sneeze at. Mind you, back then my eyesight was much better and focusing on the sights and targets was much easier.
Just as Smellie recommended, I tried the same bullets in my Carcanos. I used IMR3031 in those cartridges as well. No signs of high pressures and the accuracy was as good or better than it was with actual Italian made ammo, which by the way was very similar in construction to the Swede issue ammo but .002 larger in diameter.
These bullets came in a package deal. Wooden tipped bullets over Rottweil flake powder, which turned out to be very good as a large bore pistol powder. They included enough bullets and #44 Bofors powder (IMR3031) to reload all of the bullets they sent me. I thought the poor accuracy was because of the heavy indentation from the crimp. Nope. It was from the powder I was using, IMR4350. I was being to cautious.
Just as you described in your informative post, when I used the powder they suggested, my groups shrunk from a scattered pattern, 10 inches at 100 yds, to slightly over MOA. I slugged the bore on that lovely 6.5x55, M96 Swede and it was .266. The indicators on the butt said it was as new, with a 0 strike. To make a long story short, with the fast powder giving the exposed lead base a kick, it caused the bullet to obdurate into the rifling very quickly and accuracy was everything I hoped for. Slightly over MOA groups with milsurp, pulled projectiles is nothing to sneeze at. Mind you, back then my eyesight was much better and focusing on the sights and targets was much easier.
Just as Smellie recommended, I tried the same bullets in my Carcanos. I used IMR3031 in those cartridges as well. No signs of high pressures and the accuracy was as good or better than it was with actual Italian made ammo, which by the way was very similar in construction to the Swede issue ammo but .002 larger in diameter.
