Spent a cold Day in Alberta Casting bullets with my Accurate 314200 mould.

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Casted up a bunch of plate fodder pills today. The weather sucks here in Alberta, so I am going to fill my spare time with a few more casting days!

Been using this bullet in various loads in my P14. One load using Unique at 1550fps average, I managed to put 8 consecutive hits on an 8" plate at 240 yards! I was stoked! So more of this particular pill was required in my stores! LOL!





 
dakotamar said:
what mold are you using?
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The mould brand and product number is in the main post.

"Accurate moulds" is a company who produces many many different mould styles and calibers.

They even do custom moulds as well.

My mould doesnt appear in thier product catalogue for some reason. They could get my mould dimensions by the product number on my mould.
 
dthunter said:
The mould brand and product number is in the main post.

"Accurate moulds" is a company who produces many many different mould styles and calibers.

They even do custom moulds as well."

Accurate customs are really cool. I have one that has two different grain weight 45-70s. Great quality moulds. I also have a few NOE moulds. They are very goos as well.

Those are some very nice projectiles. Well done. Do you lube with alox or with a lube/sizer press.
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dthunter said:
Yes it is a gas check design.

I make my own gas checks from Aluminum, and brass shim stock.

I have also used Hornady, Gator, and Lyman as well.

Whole sale sports carry them as well.
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WSS doesn't carry gas checks any more. Sounds like they are getting out of a lot of the casting stuff. I already looked at Dragon lube site for GC. None in 303 cal. Hornady probably still makes them,but trying to find them in Canada seems impossible.
 
Ice hunter:

I picked up a couple boxes of 30 cal gaschecks the other day. 30cal gaschecks size through my lube sizer at .313". No problem.

Difficulty in ibtaining gaschecks is why I invested in a check making punch for a few calibers. That way I am not dependant on the local markets ability to bring them in.
 
Thankyou for the compliments gentlemen! I love casting bullets, and am very particular about my proceedure. I donot cast very fast, but it is a steady pace.

I casted about 1500 of those bullets and now I am inspecting them with a manifying lens to cull the poorly formed ones from the herd.
It will be interesting how many I wind up with as shootable.

So far, about 8 of 10 bullets are what I view as "perfects", and 1 as "seconds" quality.

The bullets that have any flaw in the base at all, are remelts for sure.

I am planning to shoot some of these out to longer ranges with my P14.
My load with "Unique" shoots very well, but it lacks a little velocity to allow my scope to make the adjustments out past 350yds.

My goal is to work out a dependable/accurate load around the 2000 fps range. This should allow me a fair bit of scope adjustment to reach 500 yards. Any more than that is just a bonus.
 
icehunter121 said:
WSS doesn't carry gas checks any more. Sounds like they are getting out of a lot of the casting stuff. I already looked at Dragon lube site for GC. None in 303 cal. Hornady probably still makes them,but trying to find them in Canada seems impossible.[/QUOT

The last 30 cal. GC I bought were at Pud's in Bashaw a couple months ago and as for WSS downsizing their casting choises, the last time (again a month or more ago) I was in the ED north store or Cal the amount of casting equipment they had (molds & melting tools) was significantly more than I have ever seen before in either place.
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fingers284 said:
icehunter121 said:
WSS doesn't carry gas checks any more. Sounds like they are getting out of a lot of the casting stuff. I already looked at Dragon lube site for GC. None in 303 cal. Hornady probably still makes them,but trying to find them in Canada seems impossible.[/QUOT

The last 30 cal. GC I bought were at Pud's in Bashaw a couple months ago and as for WSS downsizing their casting choises, the last time (again a month or more ago) I was in the ED north store or Cal the amount of casting equipment they had (molds & melting tools) was significantly more than I have ever seen before in either place.
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I was in ED. on April 29th.I hit both stores and couldn't even find a measley .308 Lee mould. Same for a Lee .311 180 grain mold. As for gas checks I did spy one box or so of .308 in each store and that was it. They did have multiple molds for 6 cavity pistol,shotgun and BP...but that was about it! Unless they were switching things around and had them stored...it was a wasted 3 hour trip.
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dthunter said:
Ice hunter:

I picked up a couple boxes of 30 cal gaschecks the other day. 30cal gaschecks size through my lube sizer at .313". No problem.

Difficulty in ibtaining gaschecks is why I invested in a check making punch for a few calibers. That way I am not dependant on the local markets ability to bring them in.
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So you are using 30 cal. GC on the .303 then?
 
icehunter121 said:
So you are using 30 cal. GC on the .303 then?
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that is correct ice hunter.

The outside diameter of an unsized 30 caliber Hornady/Gator gas check is 0.320". Lots of room for sizing and adequate grip on the bullet shank.

The cast bullets rebated base diameter, that the gas check is seated on, tends to be the same size (relatively speaking) wether a .310", .311" or a .314", cast bullet is formed/cast.

The lube sizing stage just swedges the bullet and gas check down to the die diameter that is in the lube sizer. This locks the gas checks in place as well.
 
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Great to hear from you Tigrr!!!

This casting is fun stuff isn't it!? I would love to try that pointed .458 bullet in my Miruko 1885 Browning BPCR! What is its weight?
 
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