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Offline ohaygen

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a few questions before I order
« on: January 12, 2006, 11:04:08 AM »
Veral,  I have your book and read it several times and am still learning about bullet making. I have a SBH in 44 mag that i have been casting the Lee 310 for and they have been comming out of the mold about .004 ot of round! At about 60 yards their accuracy is just ok. Anyway, I am ready to take it to the next level with one one your quality molds. I am thinking about ordering the .44 300-WLN - gc, .45 nose. I will be using this for deer under 100 yards. In your opinion is the a good choice ? I cast with straight wheel weights at a high enough temp. to cast frosty bullets and then water quench. then sized thru a Lee .430 die. Should i order a .430 or .431 dia. mold ? At this time i do not have a lubricator sizer but i would like to try your blue soft. Is it soft enough to smear on with ones fingers? If I purchase a lubricator sizer would you recommend blue soft ? Heater or no heater? Any help clearing up some of my questions would be appreciated so I can place an order.

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a few questions before I order
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2006, 06:18:25 AM »
Blue soft is your best choice, going on easier and staying better than any lube I know of, whether with fingers or lubrisizer.  It flows nicely through any sizer without heat.

  When you buy an LBT mold you are paying for a custom diameter, so I strongly encourage you to measure your gun.  431 will shoot well in almost any revolver out there, unsized, if seated deep enough so the forward driving band doesn't hang up in the throats, but if your gun happens to need a larger bullet, you'll sacrifice accuracy and have to play with powder charges a bit to find a pressure with bumps the base up to get a seal befor the bullets starts moving.  

  When shooting unsized LBT bullets, most will require seating deeper than the crimp to get them to chamber easily, if they are large enough in diameter to allow sizing to a perfect cylinder throat fit, as is required for optimum accuracy and power potential.  For this reason, I reccomend a 280 or even 260 gr WFN, and plain based for hand lubing, because gas checks which aren't sized will expand the brass when seated destroying the necessary case neck grip to hold bullets from crawling out under recoil.  A 260 gr will anchor most decently hit deer, elk, and smaller game in their tracks with starting velocities as low as 1200 fps, with hits out to 150 yards.  You don't need 300 gr to do the job.  If you already had a sizer I'd reccomend a 280 gr WFN first, or 300 gr, and the WLN if 320 gr or heavier was wanted.
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