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Offline Lloyd Smale

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deer whompers!!
« on: June 11, 2007, 07:41:55 AM »
been playing with a tc carbine in 4570. It really shoots a 540wfngc ballisticast mold bullet. This bullet weights about 550 sized and lubed out of #2 and thats what ive been shooting them at. Load ive been using pushes them to about 1200 fps out of the 18 inch barrel. Recoil isnt bad at all. Today i strated experimenting with casting them as soft nosed bullets. I first tried a 32 sw long case then a 32 mag and settled on a 38 special as the proper dipper. It fills out the nose about perfectly. Running two pots and pourning the nose first then immediately pourning the base out of #2 ive been getting perfect bullets with no visable flaws. Just a definate devideing line where the nose and bodys but up no cracks just a differnce in colar as the nose is alot brighter. I havent weighted the noses but im guessing theres about 200 grains of pure lead in them. The bullet as casted without lube or checks are going a very consisntant 550 grain. That big wfn with that pure nose has got to put a hurting on anything a guy would put it into.
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Re: deer whompers!!
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2007, 11:38:05 AM »
What? no Pictures???? ???
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Re: deer whompers!!
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2007, 04:04:57 PM »
A 550 gr. bullet for deer??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?  Well, I'm just gonna hafta throw away my 25-06!!!
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Re: deer whompers!!
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2007, 04:24:59 PM »
  lloyd, you have just GOT TO shoot some of those into wet paper to see what happens. I made some of those soft nosed bullets for my 35Whelen. I first shot them at 25 yards into wet phone books with great results.BUT I did not stop them in about 2 feet of wet books.! I got better results at 100 yards, catching 2 or 3 in about 19 or 20 inches. Expansion was over half inch,bullets were between .5 and .6" from a .358" start. NOT classic mushrooms,but still recognizable with the nose flattened.They blew the wet bales off the table. 250 grain molds with about a third being pure lead and the rest # 2 alloy. I tried BruceB's method over on cast boolits. It works but IS slow. Only needing a dozen soft nose for a couple years hunting makes it worth trying though!

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Re: deer whompers!!
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2007, 03:22:58 PM »
the recoil is not bad .. I am glad to hear that, ..I bet it will Whomp one ! cool
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Re: deer whompers!!
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2007, 04:23:17 PM »
Now I feel under gunned with my 405 grainer's.  Well this is an easy way to justify a new mould.  Tom.

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Re: deer whompers!!
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2007, 02:02:32 AM »
its me that feels undergunned shooting them in a tc and looking at that absoutley beautiful sharps!!!!
Now I feel under gunned with my 405 grainer's.  Well this is an easy way to justify a new mould.  Tom.


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Re: deer whompers!!
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2007, 04:59:45 PM »
If you've got it, flaunt it!  That's a really nice looking rifle.....
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Re: deer whompers!!
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2007, 01:10:38 PM »
A sharps rifle and a freedom arms handgun are on my life list of must have guns.  More than one of each if I marry money.

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