Recovered Cast boolit

[brnolvr]

Hi everyone, Just thought I'd post a pic for you all to see.

Last week while at the range I was wandering out to the 200 yard berm looked down sitting on top on the snow and ice was this piece of lead.

Quickly saw it was one of mine I shot within the last 2 months or so.

Was amazed at its condition, Not a mark on it anywhere from impact, rifling clearly engraved, gas check firmly crimped on and the lube was all used up.

load was in a .308 win, 19 grains SR4759, lyman 311291 boolit, Jakes red lube, Hornady gas check, CCI200 primer.
Chronyed at 1845 FPS This is a great shooting round with no leading in the bore.

Boolit casts at 175 grains, 5% tin 10% linotype the rest wheel weights water quenched.

Anyways heres the pic.

 

[.Ben]

Looks like she came through in pretty good shape....i fired a shotgun slug at the range the other day and it went though about 20 feet of snow then hit the wooden timber at the base of the backstop and i guess just bounced off with little energy since i found the slug later when changing targets and it looks in pretty good condition actually....

 

[WKAYE]

It's amazing how snow stops a bullet. I shot a lot of cast in the winter and find them in the spring, looking like yours. Also a fine example of why you don't want to shoot game with a bullet that hard or with that round nose.

 

[H4831]

Yes, snow is a near perfect way to catch a BULLET without damage to it.
I once fired cast bullets all winter from a 30-06, including the same mold you are using. I did a lot of experimenting with various charges of various powders and, as would be expected, when I got too high a charge, I got flyers.
In the spring I gathered oodles of them up, in pristine condition. Some bullets had a streak, almost as large as a wooden match, cut lengthwise from end to end. Obviously, they were flyers, as the powder had cut the groove end to end of the bullet.

 

[brnolvr]

Well...... when the snow and ice are gone off the range I"ll be pickin up lead to put back into the lead pot, so I can cast more up.

The 311291 works great in 30-30, .303br, .308 and 30-06.
I have a good stock of gas checks luckily as they have sky rocketed in price in the last two years, along with everything else

 

[Longwalker]

Why copy the recent American trend and misspell bullet like that? Anyway, I have collected many bullets in spring that looked like they could be loaded and shot again. Kinda cool isn't it!

 

[Ganderite]

When I was doing ammo research at CIL ammo labs in the early 60's, we shot 12 gu straight up, so wads would fall back near us. By shooting slightly into the wind, we could get the wads to fall back at our feet, on the snow.