[Gewehr98]

Many of the roads and bridges around me are flooded out, and it's pouring in biblical proportions outside, so it's time to get some other projects out of the way.

Today, it was 500gr BP .45-70, 20 soldiers at a time. :D

http://mauser98.com/rainysundayammo3.jpg

The dining-room table setup, with Huntington Compac hand press:

http://mauser98.com/rainysundayammo1.jpg

The bullets are longer than the loaded rounds let on, thank goodness for my Montana Precision Swaging Black Powder compression die!

http://mauser98.com/rainysundayammo2.jpg

Next Saturday, if the weather holds up, I'll be converting charcoal to noise and smoke in my 32" Sharps. That's a good use for a rainy Sunday in my book. ;)

[dcloco]

Those are some nice looking rounds.

The lead bullets have enough of a satin look be stainless or titanium. SWEET!

[goalie]

I did about the opposite: 600 rounds of 9mm on a Dillon.

Yours look prettier, and, IMO, are going to be more fun to shoot.

[koja48]

Rainy here, too . . . so I cleaned dies & loaded recent data into my ballistics program. Those are some FINE looking .45/70 rounds, by the way.

[dmftoy1]

Those are some fine looking boolits . . . how many "rejects" do you get casting up a batch of those? 1 in 10, 2 in 10, 30 in 10? (eg. I don't see any raisins. :) )

Have a good one,
Dave

[copdills]

+1 on some nice looking rds, wish we could get some rain here in south carolina , its dry as a bone

[Gewehr98]

Because I quit casting my own a couple years ago. I buy them from other guys willing to suck lead fumes these days, and let them cull their own rejects before boxing them up and sending them my way.

My favorites are the 500 and 550gr swaged spitzers from Marcel Lacelle, as pictured here:

http://www.buffalobillsshootingstore.com/images/product/963.jpg

[dmftoy1]

All fine looking bullets!! I was just curious about the number of rejects because I've just started casting this year and I always get "some" but I never know if I'm getting too many. Seems like the more I cast and the bigger the bullet I'm casting the less rejects I get.

Nice loads!

Have a good one,
Dave

[Hutch]

Wonderful looking stuff. Craftsmanship, not quantity...

Thread drift...

I read somewhere that the bigger the diameter of the bullet, the easier it is to cast good bullets. Makes sense, in that the (inevitable) imperfections are fewer, due to fluid dynamics in the bigger mold, and matter less, as they represent a smaller proportion of the bullet. IOW, an very small void in a 45 grain bullet for .22 Hornet would have much more of an effect on accuracy than the same void in one of G98's slugs. Also, because of the small cavity of the .22 mold, lead is more likely to form the voids and other imperfections than it is in the soup-can-sized moulds the big boys use.

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