Cast .224 Slugs
- Thread starter rimfiremac
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Buy a mold, cast your own.
Buy several molds!
It's a trap!
Go look around on Castboolits, scroll down and hit the link for the castpics site, and read the stuff about the cartridge you are interested in. Take a look on the Vendor-Sponsor listings and the group buy forums to see if any of the molds there catch your fancy.
Right now there are still a very few repro's of the 225107, 37 grain gas check bullet available, and there are a couple group buys going on up into the 70 grains range.
Sizing and eating gas checks, as well as lubing, can be cheap or not, depending on how much you wish to spend, ranging from a Lee push through type set-up, to a Star Lubsizer.
Cheers
Trev
Buy several molds!
It's a trap!
Go look around on Castboolits, scroll down and hit the link for the castpics site, and read the stuff about the cartridge you are interested in. Take a look on the Vendor-Sponsor listings and the group buy forums to see if any of the molds there catch your fancy.
Right now there are still a very few repro's of the 225107, 37 grain gas check bullet available, and there are a couple group buys going on up into the 70 grains range.
Sizing and eating gas checks, as well as lubing, can be cheap or not, depending on how much you wish to spend, ranging from a Lee push through type set-up, to a Star Lubsizer.
Cheers
Trev
Cast bullet accuracy with the .22 can be tough but when you hit on it, you can use c.f. cals. for gophers out here, I mean firing hundreds of rounds a day, low cost, easy on the barrel, what's not to like? I'm testing the 37 gr. Hollowpt. gas check bullet, on paper and gopher innards!
One of the guys on castboolits says he's pushing over 3000 fps with that 37 grain bullet on a Fireball, iirrc. That'd do a nice number on a starling or gopher!
How are you finding the NOE mold? Happy with it?
I was too late to get in on the group buy, but bought one of the over-run molds from the Vendor-Sponsor forum. Mine is a 2 cav. Of course, he came up with a HP mold after I got this one. Oh well.
May get around to putting a HP pin in one cavity some day. Or not.
Cheers
Trev
How are you finding the NOE mold? Happy with it?
I was too late to get in on the group buy, but bought one of the over-run molds from the Vendor-Sponsor forum. Mine is a 2 cav. Of course, he came up with a HP mold after I got this one. Oh well.
May get around to putting a HP pin in one cavity some day. Or not.
Cheers
Trev
