Ian
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Photos would be MUCH appreciated, and exact COAL where you get nose contact, and whether or not you can crimp in the groove. You will likely want to crimp in the groove, I had better results that way (with the powder I'm using, FWIW).
What alloy did you use? If they make 12 bhn air cooled they'll be fine. I asked about the nose on the NOE group buy thread a while back and it killed the thread right there, just crickets ever since. I was afraid that based on every other NOE mould I've ever bought or used they'd be too fat to work properly even with watered-down alloy, looks like this is no different?
Josh's bullet FITS with 2/1/1 CWW/SWW/soft that makes a .303" nose out of a .301" spec'd nose on some NOE moulds. I can seat them out far enough to scrape both ends of the magazine (2.225" if memory serves, I usually go 2.218" or so) and that puts the mouth of the case in the middle of the top lube groove with cases at 1.something63" trim length and more than half the front band in the throat's freebore. The nose absolutely fits the throats of both my rifles with no bind and full support, even with a dirty chamber, but there's hardly any unsupported space and the bullet corks the bore up tight right away as soon as it budges forward when fired. Maybe that's why they shoot so well even with me cramming the ammo together on a progressive with no special care or special seating die?
What alloy did you use? If they make 12 bhn air cooled they'll be fine. I asked about the nose on the NOE group buy thread a while back and it killed the thread right there, just crickets ever since. I was afraid that based on every other NOE mould I've ever bought or used they'd be too fat to work properly even with watered-down alloy, looks like this is no different?
Josh's bullet FITS with 2/1/1 CWW/SWW/soft that makes a .303" nose out of a .301" spec'd nose on some NOE moulds. I can seat them out far enough to scrape both ends of the magazine (2.225" if memory serves, I usually go 2.218" or so) and that puts the mouth of the case in the middle of the top lube groove with cases at 1.something63" trim length and more than half the front band in the throat's freebore. The nose absolutely fits the throats of both my rifles with no bind and full support, even with a dirty chamber, but there's hardly any unsupported space and the bullet corks the bore up tight right away as soon as it budges forward when fired. Maybe that's why they shoot so well even with me cramming the ammo together on a progressive with no special care or special seating die?