Anyone have a fast twist barrel they have worked up loads for ?
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Bullets/Conicals .40 cal
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Been playing with a 16" twist .401 bore (32" barrel) off and on for years.
My intents were to use it for deer hunts in Texas
but between business travel and then moving a thousand miles north to a .44 minimum bore state... didn't happen. The piece got side lined for a while. Now it's a plinker. And I'd like to see how light of a bullet can be accurate hot loading with this adjustable length mold.
Meanwhile, these are the same mold set to ultra-light for the old Green Mountain 48" twist barrel, using the hollow base plug.
Never have worked up a round ball squirrel and rabbit load for the 16" twist barrel.
My intents were to use it for deer hunts in Texas
but between business travel and then moving a thousand miles north to a .44 minimum bore state... didn't happen. The piece got side lined for a while. Now it's a plinker. And I'd like to see how light of a bullet can be accurate hot loading with this adjustable length mold.
Meanwhile, these are the same mold set to ultra-light for the old Green Mountain 48" twist barrel, using the hollow base plug.
Never have worked up a round ball squirrel and rabbit load for the 16" twist barrel.
I have a 1:24 twist 7/8" .400-.408 barrel on my Under-HammerBeen playing with a 16" twist .401 bore (32" barrel) off and on for years.
My intents were to use it for deer hunts in Texas
but between business travel and then moving a thousand miles north to a .44 minimum bore state... didn't happen. The piece got side lined for a while. Now it's a plinker. And I'd like to see how light of a bullet can be accurate hot loading with this adjustable length mold.
Meanwhile, these are the same mold set to ultra-light for the old Green Mountain 48" twist barrel, using the hollow base plug.
Never have worked up a round ball squirrel and rabbit load for the 16" twist barrel.
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What works in yours? Have you tried the Lyman #403169?
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That bullet runs nice from my 1-16” Hoyt barrels. 60 or 65 grains of Swiss 2F.
I don't know yet. I have not got it ready to shoot. I am hoping this month to start working with it. I have 2 .40 cal barrels to change out for different hunting. I will have to look up the lyman mold.
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Another way forwards...
If you bump into one of the Lyman (Ideal) core molds marked .44, the adjustable length flat ended base plug can be replaced with one to make a semi-wadcutter or other design of nose, and then paper patched for forty bores. The molds pop up on auctions occasionally. I figured a pure lead long heavy full wadcutter would make a booger of a deer load.
If you bump into one of the Lyman (Ideal) core molds marked .44, the adjustable length flat ended base plug can be replaced with one to make a semi-wadcutter or other design of nose, and then paper patched for forty bores. The molds pop up on auctions occasionally. I figured a pure lead long heavy full wadcutter would make a booger of a deer load.
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Cast that from 1:20 alloy and you’d put a heck of a smack on elk…
