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Re: Hunting bullet
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 5:23 pm
by Kurt
Stephen.
You better have Orville put the snow shoes on and get him out there to see if that bottle isn't buried under the snow first
Kurt
Re: Hunting bullet
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:05 pm
by Stephen Borud
Kurt wrote:Stephen.
You better have Orville put the snow shoes on and get him out there to see if that bottle isn't buried under the snow first
Kurt
Kurt,
He's gonna have to pack a lunch if he plans on walking over there. You can only walk up or down on his place!
Stephen
Re: Hunting bullet
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:00 am
by pete
Stephen;
I could be wrong but I think you said last year you were going elk hunting with the 50. If so how did it go?
Re: Hunting bullet
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:14 am
by Stephen Borud
I went out once with my 50 Pete and never saw an elk! I took my oldest son Kaleb with me and even though the hunting was poor, we had the time of our lives!
Stephen
Re: Hunting bullet
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:46 pm
by alans49
Hi Stephen,
I saw your post here and I thought I would share with you a core mold that I had made for me for swagging my 45 and 50 caliber cores. I know you are quite handy so I figured you might want to try making one of these. I bought the aluminum and sent it out to have it made as I do not have the machinery to do it myself. This is styled after a Lee 6 cavity mold and uses the 6 cavity mold handles. All cavities are adjustable and I usually set the cores to come out about 15 grains heavier than I want. For a 473 grain core I set it to cast .488 to .495 grains. That way when I swag them to the right weight all wrinkles and voids are gone. With this setup I can cast a coffee can full in just a couple of hours. Here are some pictures:
All I need to do now is find the time to make them all into bullets.
Alan
Re: Hunting bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:21 pm
by powderburner
Alan if you dont have the time just foreward them to me ,I will make the time,,,,,,,,I can always use a small coffee can full of billets
Re: Hunting bullet
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 5:06 pm
by bobw
AlanS very nice machine work there.
Stephen try wrapping them cores unswaged with 20lb copier paper, I bet they would shoot. bobw