several years ago i started tooling up to be able to cast, reload and shoot home cast bullets. I reconized early that the way prices and cost of living going up 10x faster than my pay I need the most cost effective ammo i can get.
Cast loads with pistol powders in rifles makes for some inexpensive shooting with accuracy being on par with jacketed ammo in my old milsurp rifles.
Moving on to the M1 i want to find a decent load that will hold the 10 ring of a SR1 and also function 100%
I have several garands to choose from. I will decide which one for testing tonight?
Im going to test the few batch thursday and it will be for a postal match. No idea how well these will do. Im a bit worried the alloy is a bit soft for the velocity which i think will be around 1750-1900fps ?
37 grains of H4895 with 2 bullet profiles. Cast with clip on wheel weights and add 2% of tin and water dropped. I had this alloy tested some time ago and it was 12-15 ?
first up
The rifle that really boosted my CMP shooting not my first M1 but one of the better shooting ones in the early days of garanditis.
Its a high 5mil range with a 55 barrel. The bore is not that pretty but not bad as far as old war dogs go. Some are better some are worse. I will warn everyone though if you like how your bore looks and you think its nice
DO NOT BORE SCOPE IT. Video done with a $14 bore scope
Needs to be cleaned a bit better theres some copper fouling. This bore has some frosting, pits and some wear especially near the muzzle. This gun got me into the low 430s with HXP so it has potential. I have not "cleaned" this bore for a while maybe 600 rounds. I just CLP when I get home dry patch it CLP again and put up in the bunker. I dry patch it when I take it out again. Even with some stock fit issues. I will give it a good scrub and test out the cast loads
I will post a video of the after shots with cast and also the deep clean view later. No time for playing with videos right now
Cast loads with pistol powders in rifles makes for some inexpensive shooting with accuracy being on par with jacketed ammo in my old milsurp rifles.
Moving on to the M1 i want to find a decent load that will hold the 10 ring of a SR1 and also function 100%
I have several garands to choose from. I will decide which one for testing tonight?
Im going to test the few batch thursday and it will be for a postal match. No idea how well these will do. Im a bit worried the alloy is a bit soft for the velocity which i think will be around 1750-1900fps ?
37 grains of H4895 with 2 bullet profiles. Cast with clip on wheel weights and add 2% of tin and water dropped. I had this alloy tested some time ago and it was 12-15 ?
first up
The rifle that really boosted my CMP shooting not my first M1 but one of the better shooting ones in the early days of garanditis.
Its a high 5mil range with a 55 barrel. The bore is not that pretty but not bad as far as old war dogs go. Some are better some are worse. I will warn everyone though if you like how your bore looks and you think its nice
DO NOT BORE SCOPE IT. Video done with a $14 bore scope
Needs to be cleaned a bit better theres some copper fouling. This bore has some frosting, pits and some wear especially near the muzzle. This gun got me into the low 430s with HXP so it has potential. I have not "cleaned" this bore for a while maybe 600 rounds. I just CLP when I get home dry patch it CLP again and put up in the bunker. I dry patch it when I take it out again. Even with some stock fit issues. I will give it a good scrub and test out the cast loads
I will post a video of the after shots with cast and also the deep clean view later. No time for playing with videos right now
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