BHuij
Active Member
You know what, I actually did de-bullet when I extracted the case, just re-inserted the bullet into the case mouth after the fact. It pushed out of the bore very easily from the muzzle end, easily enough that I don't think I deformed anything. But it didn't come out perfectly clean and together with the brass like I would have hoped.
Given the higher-than-optimal BHN of the alloy, I'm inclined to think the weird narrow section between the rifling and the case mouth is just incomplete fill out due to hard alloy rather than an actual narrow bottleneck in my chamber/throat. When I slugged the barrel in the "traditional" way of forcing a fishing weight from breech out through muzzle right after obtaining the rifle, it was .314" in the grooves. I really walloped that thing (with love of course) trying to get a good fillout in my pound cast, but I guess not enough.
*sigh*, guess I need to scrounge in my dirty/unprocessed SOWW bucket for the old, mega-soft ones. I just don't have a good source of near-pure soft lead.
Alternatively I suppose I could heat up my SOWW alloy really nice and hot and see if I can skim any hardening agents off the top. I don't have much use for ingots that are 8.4 BHN.
I'll come back when I have a proper pound cast
Given the higher-than-optimal BHN of the alloy, I'm inclined to think the weird narrow section between the rifling and the case mouth is just incomplete fill out due to hard alloy rather than an actual narrow bottleneck in my chamber/throat. When I slugged the barrel in the "traditional" way of forcing a fishing weight from breech out through muzzle right after obtaining the rifle, it was .314" in the grooves. I really walloped that thing (with love of course) trying to get a good fillout in my pound cast, but I guess not enough.
*sigh*, guess I need to scrounge in my dirty/unprocessed SOWW bucket for the old, mega-soft ones. I just don't have a good source of near-pure soft lead.
Alternatively I suppose I could heat up my SOWW alloy really nice and hot and see if I can skim any hardening agents off the top. I don't have much use for ingots that are 8.4 BHN.
I'll come back when I have a proper pound cast
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