Tomme boy
Well-Known Member
A soft alloy will have less spring back when sizing right? I sized up some bullets the other night for my 350L and ran them through my 0.356" sizer. Before all my bullets came out 0.356" or 0.3565" depending on the lead. Now this time I used a really soft alloy. Not sure how soft but they came out this time @ 0.3545-0.355"
My guess is they are really soft. What I mixed was 40/60 range scrap to stick on WW lead. They seemed really soft. Today I shot some that were loaded at the same load the Lee 200gr bullet shot pretty good in. It was 21.3gr of h110. I got about 2.25" 5 shot group at 100yds. The Lee runs right at 1.5" groups.
I had a couple misfeeds as well with this RCBS clone 200 gr. When it did the bullet had huge gouges from feeding. I think this may be the cause for the misfeeds. Then if it misfed then still made it to the chamber the bolt did not lock up. Some of the lead got scraped back into the front of the case so no lock up.
I have tin(pewter) and linotype. I don't want to make it too hard. But I think I should just run the range scrap. It has worked well with the Lee bullet.
The other thing was when I shot these I could hear them hit the target. These have a little bigger face than the Lee bullet. I thought that was interesting. It must be the larger flat.
My guess is they are really soft. What I mixed was 40/60 range scrap to stick on WW lead. They seemed really soft. Today I shot some that were loaded at the same load the Lee 200gr bullet shot pretty good in. It was 21.3gr of h110. I got about 2.25" 5 shot group at 100yds. The Lee runs right at 1.5" groups.
I had a couple misfeeds as well with this RCBS clone 200 gr. When it did the bullet had huge gouges from feeding. I think this may be the cause for the misfeeds. Then if it misfed then still made it to the chamber the bolt did not lock up. Some of the lead got scraped back into the front of the case so no lock up.
I have tin(pewter) and linotype. I don't want to make it too hard. But I think I should just run the range scrap. It has worked well with the Lee bullet.
The other thing was when I shot these I could hear them hit the target. These have a little bigger face than the Lee bullet. I thought that was interesting. It must be the larger flat.