Guns, Bows, Shooting Sports, and Hunting bullet molds

[BIGNASTY]

The CZ wouldn't look the part in a scabbard on a horse with some guy in western style clothes on now would it? Not in my part of the world it wouldn't.

I guess its all in how you HOLD IT I have since the time I told you about getting hurt by large bore guns found a FIRECRACKER of a wife to show me how to hang on to the HOT ONES I more than likely could shoot the heavy loads now that ive had some time to practice holding on to her

 

[KBurgoyne]

I wasnt suggesting you would carry the CZ. Marlin used to put monte carlo style stocks on their guns. To my eye they look better than what you get now, and to my shoulder they feel a lot better when there is a charging gun after you.

http://shop.macongunstocks.com/Marl...9536C5364FFE56B75828B6B4182767.m1plqscsfapp02

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[BIGNASTY]

My Marlin is a " Working Gun " it rides in a scabbard next to a sweaty animal all day long, rain, snow heat is its work place. I removed the Gray wood laminate stocks off its Stainless Steel 45-70, 18.5" barrel with brake, Big loop lever, 6 shot full length tube magazine frame and put on a Black Synthetic Stock with a Pachmayr Decelerator recoil pad from a company that for some reason I cant bring up their website.

A wood stock in the working environment that its subjected to wouldn't last a season.

 

[KBurgoyne]

Got a couple more molds.
This one is from the boys in Australia. The finished bullets are about 940-950 with the 5/3 lino/ww alloy. It will eclipse 1000 with straight wheel weight.
http://us.castbulletengineering.com.au/bullet-moulds/rifle/50-calibre/512-975gc-single-cavity

The other is a 45 hollowpoint mold from NOE. It coms with three sets of pins so one mold can make large hp, small hp, and flat nose.
http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/produc...cts_id=1822&osCsid=egcphuv0m7b71jcqi83tq4afu2

All of the information I have found about big bore bullets says to use WW, but I cant get them to play nice. I cast about 100 WW + 4% tin. There is a happy zone, but its eluding me. Out of the 100 I lost half to gaps in the casting, and all but 6 of the rest to shrunken bullet syndrome. With the 5/3 alloy I lost 3 to gaps in the casting and none to SBS.

Anybody know where im going wrong.

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[BIGNASTY]

How about temp, mold & lead. I cast the 600gr if the mold isn't up to temp it forms weird bullets & same goes with the lead casting that big I guess cant be done real fast the temp fluctuation made my bullets a disaster until the addition of the lead to the pot got back to the temp it was casting good.

 

[KBurgoyne]

I keep forgetting that I have a lead thermometer. I spent a few hours with three of the molds running temp of mold up and down, it didnt make much of a difference. I got the most consistently good result from keeping the lead colder, cold enough so that the spout didnt work, and ladle pouring with the mold on the hot side. With the 5/3 though the happy zone is a lot bigger, and getting good bullets isnt difficult. I did get a hardness tester, and the ice water quenched bullets were in the low 30s with the 5/3. I was going to try and heat treat the WW, but the .512s will be pushed hard, the .459 only goes low to mid 1300's and doesnt need to be that hard.

By the way those Australians also make a good Marlin mold. Even if they cant cant spell caliber.http://www.castbulletengineering.com.au/bullet-moulds/rifle/458-calibre/458-570gc-single-cavity

I really like the 45 mold too, I just bought another one that makes 250-265 grain.

You can also design your own. http://www.mountainmolds.com/

 

[KBurgoyne]

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