Things are looking up! The rifle seems to prefer the 429640 mould I got from Glen. Sized .433 they load fine and the rifle doesn't lead. I do need to modify my seater, it doesn't care for that fat a bullet. I also need to look at a different crimp die, the Redding profile crimp doesn't seem happy with it either. It definitely rubs on the case over the drive bands. I used it to iron out the flare on the case mouth and just barely turn it in. No real roll crimp at all.
Load was Starline brass, CCI LP primers, and 21.5 gr H110.
Target is rotated in photo. The hole low and right is actually high and right as fired. It was the first from a cold barrel. This is 10 shots. The little row is a total of 6, 4 in the long hole.
Dang phone rotated all the photos 90° clockwise.
This was fired right after the previous target. These were not crimped at all. The mouth flare was barely ironed out, I could feel it scrape a bit on chambering.
Is was fired right after the previous 2 targets. Is was same alloy as the others except this was air cooled, the others were water dropped.
All targets fired at 50 yards.
This is a couple of the water dropped bullets recovered from the berm. No doubt the barrel has micro groove rifling!
I see lots of potential for the bullet. I will be loading and shootng more, that is for sure. I will go up a bit in powder charge and play some with hardness. I also need to make a new seating guide for the Hornady seater that will play nice with a fat bullet.
Thanks for the mould Glen. It made the rifle much more fun to shoot. Now I need to size some .431 and try them in the SRH. Bet it likes em too.