Wolfdog91
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Years ago,I used a load I found in an old American Rifleman magazine that served me very well in
So wrote this up on a different side and figured might be worth something to post here
So I had just finished loading up a box of 45gr hornets for my little .233 H&R ultra varmint. Well I kinda wasn't in the mood to stop and I happen to notice this bottle of sized and sorted powered coated cast .225 bullets I had. So said screw it and decided tho have a lil fun give my self 30min and see if I could make a low velocity gallery load that half way accurate and possibly could use for blasting small game or varmints out to 50 or so if I ran out of .22lr (again lol).
So the bullets are lee 55gr rf cast out of 100% clip on wheel weights , double quenched , sized to .225 , powder coated, gas checked and weight sorted in .5gr increments for these ( I usually do them to .1 gr) but yeah their running around 20-21 bhn and that with the gas check and power coating their super tough. Driven them up to 2500 gps in my AR and never had leading... They don't shoot for crap but hay was a fun experience
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Just grabbed some some sorted clean range brass I had and a quick resizing , bumped the shoulder back to what my chamber seems to like trim yadda yadda and primed and charged them with 12 GR if accurate 2015. I'd played around with it before and was able to put 3rd in a .6" hole @50yd with them goin 2250fps so I just SWAG'ed it and dropped down to 12gr hoping it would get me into the 1600fos and down range.
Well that small of a charge didnt do much as far as filling the case and since I didn't have any "proper" powders like clays or red dot so wanted to try and make this work as well as possible
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So used a .2gr chunk of Dacron as a filler to keep the power semi in place . Not to be confused with using it to compress the power like with black power. You just put it in a little past the shoulder with forceps and kinda fluff it so it just take up air space and keeps the power more confined. now it's weird though I've been told by some it's perfectly fine to do and it's safe , I've been told by others I could ring my chamber and it's just idk. Figured worst case it would ba a extra hour of cleaning.
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Then gave the cases a little flare with my lee tool and loaded these lol pills to the CBTO I came up with for the rifle . This should be right off the lands. Like maybe 2 thousands of jump if that..
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Haven't tried Dacron in my AR yet . But when I took my AR apart after a few hundred rounds of power coated cast bullets I didn't see anything out of the ordinary honestly. I have the picture somewhereAny issue with Dacron filler going up into the gas port on an AR?
Cool.Haven't tried Dacron in my AR yet . But when I took my AR apart after a few hundred rounds of power coated cast bullets I didn't see anything out of the ordinary honestly. I have the picture somewhere