dagger dog
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You have to realize that shooting lead boolits from a rifle is totally different than shooting jacketed bullets.
You have to strike a happy medium, any caliber rifle is capable of shooting cast boolits, but not at the same velocities of jacketed.
Gas check rifle boolits can achieve near jacketed bullet velocities, and non-gas check types can be shot with great accuracy, but not at jacketed or gas check velocities.
With rifles it's a real challenge to find a boolit with the correct lube grooves, weight, length, and diameters to shoot accurate in each individual rifle. The trajectories are usually "rainbow like" due to lower powder charges, that keep down leading, plus most cast rifle plain base boolit designs are very long for caliber ratios. Most rifle cast boolit velocities are below 1,800 fps with gas checks.
I would recommend casting for handguns to start out, they respond to lower velocity boolits, at standard loadings very well.
You have to strike a happy medium, any caliber rifle is capable of shooting cast boolits, but not at the same velocities of jacketed.
Gas check rifle boolits can achieve near jacketed bullet velocities, and non-gas check types can be shot with great accuracy, but not at jacketed or gas check velocities.
With rifles it's a real challenge to find a boolit with the correct lube grooves, weight, length, and diameters to shoot accurate in each individual rifle. The trajectories are usually "rainbow like" due to lower powder charges, that keep down leading, plus most cast rifle plain base boolit designs are very long for caliber ratios. Most rifle cast boolit velocities are below 1,800 fps with gas checks.
I would recommend casting for handguns to start out, they respond to lower velocity boolits, at standard loadings very well.
