reloading for .45-60

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I'm buying all the stuff right now to reload for the .45-60 Winchester. I am looking at bullet molds. its very hard to find a .300g .459. but I found a lee mold that is for the .45-70 and its .340g but .457. is the bullet in the .45-70 the same as the .45-60? would .457 be okay or to small?

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Trevor
 
My 45-60 load is a 330 grain hollowpoint (Lyman mold 457122) in front of 25 grains of IMR4198. This is for an original Whitney Kennedy. The bullets drop from the mold at .460, and are sized to .459.
The bullets from the Lee mold will work fine, and should drop from the mold larger than .457. You can size them down, or, depending on your bore diameter, use them as is. Normally, for lead bullets, one or two thou over bore diameter is about right.
 
JTF# said:
what size of sizer should I get? or does it really matter since its a smaller size of bullet?
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Depends on your bore diameter. You should slug the barrel to find what that is. The bullet from the mold you are looking at could very well drop out of it at .459 or .460. If your bore diameter is .458, then you wouldn't even need to size the biullet, except that it would ensure that it was concentric, and would lube at the same time. If the bullet was the right size right out of the mold, then a sizing die .001 larger than the bullet would work to lube the bullet without sizing.
Slug the bore. Thats the first step, and everything else depends on that.
 
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