I tested 4 different loads with the RCBS 300gr. 411 bullet is workable before making new tooling.Ī radical experiment I suppose but at least it is food for thought.Ī most pleasant range session today. I have a machinist buddy/gun nut who would be happy to make one but I want to prove to myself that the patching up of the. Even with the case belled more than I would like. This may work out or the wheels may fall off completely.īy the way the throughly dried "patch" has to be rubbed with powdered graphite to be able to seat the bullet without damaging or rumpling up the base end. 25 more loads patched this way await testing when the weather breaks. The holes in the target paper looked normal and powder residue marks didn't show that there may have been some attachment flapping as the bullets went thru. hopefully in the berm or just as the slugs went thru the target paper and backing board. Two of the five bullets were recovered from the berm wth no patch on them so it was shed somewhere. May be just bad luck at not finding any but the 5 holes in the target did not show any evidence of keyholing. I have fired 5 "proof of concept loads" at 50 yards and spent 20 minutes searching the ground to the berm for the patches but found none. The water based adhesive seems to stick quite well. My intent is to hopefully have the wrap stay on the bullet all the way. 005" so a double wrap adds four "thicknesses" which brings the. It has a water soluble adhesive on one side. My "patch" is a double wrap of brown corrogated box tape. What I am doing is patching a 300 gr RCBS bullet (actually for. I am currently working on paper patch Vetterli loads of a sort.
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