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[RonT]

~15 yd. shot, .45 PRB,(dental lead),65 gr. 3f, went ~45 yds., ball ended up against skin on opposite side (in my hand in pic).
Weighed the retrieved ball and compared it with new cast balls, found within 1 gr. on balance scale.
Could one of youse guys weigh a Speer or Hornaday .440 swaged ball and post weight. These Dental leads weigh ~129-129.5 each. Mine mic .441.
R

 

[rabjr]

Nice job Ron, grats on your deer! :thumbsup:

 

[dbutch]

Very nice- great shot placement-any details on your rifle ? It looks great in the picture.

 

[RC]

:thumbsup: Congrats and Attaboy! :hatsoff: ( :redface: Sir...)

good fer you. :thumbsup:

 

[RonT]

Thanks for the congrats guys. This rifle is "Second Hand Rose". The barrel is a 72'vintage W.M.Large,.45,1:42,42 1/4" long, bought off another Longrifle :wink: web site. The stock is a Log Cabin second, the trigger guard and nose cap are off an original. The skeleton butt is made from a cut down,too short buggered up, original. The lock is an R.E. Davis late English.
Doesn't seem shoot too bad. The shot was out of my treestand,angleing down, slightly quartering.
R

 

[Little Wattsy]

~15 yd. shot, .45 PRB,(dental lead),65 gr. 3f, went ~45 yds., ball ended up against skin on opposite side (in my hand in pic).
Weighed the retrieved ball and compared it with new cast balls, found within 1 gr. on balance scale.
Could one of youse guys weigh a Speer or Hornaday .440 swaged ball and post weight. These Dental leads weigh ~129-129.5 each. Mine mic .441.
R

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[agill]

Congratulations on the deer RonT.

I weighed some Hornady swaged round balls last year. Looks like they weighed around 127 grains. See the statistics below.

Allen


Column1

Mean 127.6376923
Standard Error 0.043807793
Median 127.6
Mode 127.9
Standard Deviation 0.417899714
Sample Variance 0.174640171
Kurtosis -0.751258239
Skewness -0.006689826
Range 1.8
Minimum 126.7
Maximum 128.5
Sum 11615.03
Count 91
Confidence Level(95.0%) 0.087031758

 

[RonT]

Thanks Allen. My LEE one holer throws .441 at ~129 gr., a thousanth bigger, if your samples were .440. These are dental lead, which in an earlier thread were speculated to be harder than "pure" lead. My criteria is the fingernail test....and actual performance on the range (field). Seemed to have worked.
This ball flattened out to ~1/8" x ~5/8".
Cheers,
R

 

[roundball]

Excellent work, congratulations !
:hatsoff:

 

[agill]

Thanks Allen. My LEE one holer throws .441 at ~129 gr., a thousanth bigger, if your samples were .440. These are dental lead, which in an earlier thread were speculated to be harder than "pure" lead. My criteria is the fingernail test....and actual performance on the range (field). Seemed to have worked.
This ball flattened out to ~1/8" x ~5/8".
Cheers,
R

Yep, these were .440. Sorry, I didn't mic them for diameter. I also weighed some Hornady .445 and Speer .445, both swaged.

.445 Hornady

Column1

Mean 133.703
Standard Error 0.021388895
Median 133.7
Mode 133.7
Standard Deviation 0.213888954
Sample Variance 0.045748485
Kurtosis 0.946518155
Skewness -0.520108088
Range 1.3
Minimum 133
Maximum 134.3
Sum 13370.3
Count 100
Confidence Level(95.0%) 0.042440217


.445 Speer

Column1

Mean 131.8764706
Standard Error 0.047906603
Median 131.9
Mode 131.9
Standard Deviation 0.483832978
Sample Variance 0.234094351
Kurtosis 0.860633377
Skewness -0.931209639
Range 2.4
Minimum 130.4
Maximum 132.8
Sum 13451.4
Count 102
Confidence Level(95.0%) 0.095033801


I never could see a difference in how they shot when using a tight patch. I have not weighed any since. I did do a design of expereiments, but found the wind to be the biggest factor. I was shooting in April and the gusts were too much for the experiment to give good conclusions. I've been iching to do the experiment again and one day I will. I would like to do it in an underground shooting range out of the wind.

 

[jethro224]

Grats Ron. :hatsoff:

 

[hanshi]

I cast my own .440 and the average weight is around 128 grains. You did alright!

 

[lone hunter]

Congratulations, well done!! Some good eating there. :hatsoff:

 

[RonT]

Close enough for me. No problem with dental lead here, particularly with weight retention and lack of fragmentation. I wondered about that after those posts.
And yep Michael, having four nice thick roasts cut out for my friendly dentist, the rest goes into burger. The little lady is pretty creative with that.
R