Herb in pa
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I ordered up the NOE 225-46 gas check mold in the 3 cavity Brass configuration. After doing the recommended thermal cycling I cast my first slugs for testing. I preheated the mold on an old Corning Lab hotplate and began casting, it took about 3 casts to begin pouring wrinkle free bullets. I sized them to .225" and decided to try good old 2400 for my first outing and loaded 5 groups of 5 using 6.5,7.0,7.5,8.0 and 8.5 grains. I shot these 50 yard groups off a bag @ 50 yards and was pleasantly supplied at 2 accuracy nodes at 6.5 and 8.0. I need to load more @ 6.5 and 8.0 and then refine the powder charge. The 6.5 grain load went into .663" and the 8.0 grain went into .857. Not much vertical with the 6.5 but my friend the wind was doing it's thing.