Thread: Bullet weight sorting

Originally Posted by Cordite

Thank's @Gibo... (O: He heh heh!

While thinking too much I just masking tape "paper" patched thirty 155grain copper electroplated boolits from Gunworks, to go in my No 4 two-groove. Bore slugged at .304 at throat and muzzle alike, grooves .317". Bare bullets measure .307" and are patched to .316". I'll shoot some patched, some bare.

The .307 unpatched ones will likely do just fine, something to hope for as I just managed not to slice my fingers with the craft knife doing those thirty. Even if my job was minimum wage it would not be worth all this fiddling to make cheaper bullets... but it's the fun.

Just realised... I forgot to weigh them all first. Drat!!!

@Cordite Shit thats a smart idea for pp bullets, I piss around with parallelograms cut from copier paper dampened then wrapped tightly round the bullet so they shrink tight when dry. Fiddly as phuq and a moderatly high fail rate but they do work fine in my 1896 no 1 mk1. Let us know how they go

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

@Cordite Shit thats a smart idea for pp bullets, I piss around with parallelograms cut from copier paper dampened then wrapped tightly round the bullet so they shrink tight when dry. Fiddly as phuq and a moderatly high fail rate but they do work fine in my 1896 no 1 mk1. Let us know how they go

@Marty Henry

Thanks but not my idea, I got it from the www of deceit.

Well they didn't go well into the case later in the evening, even with some lube, unless I flared the case mouth "a little bit more than I thought it needed". A single layer of masking tape tears quite well.... )-:

Found some cases (HXP) will only hold the patched .316 bullets after the neck sizing. But other brass (CAC, S&B, PPU) must be made of thicker stuff as after similarly neck sizing them in my .303 Lee Loader they are very happy to grip the unpapered .307 bullets. (I believe I must have measured the bullets wrong btw as they are said to be double sized to .308, both before and after their copper electroplating).

I'll let you know how the shooting went. Worked far away from home this weekend, so no chance till this coming Saturday.

I used to do that and had to flare the case mouths then run them in a neck size die another pain in the arse now I load them into unsized reprimed cases and use a collet neck sizer to hold them. Works very well.