Mulligan
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For those of you who shoot 22's, you will be pleased to know that another bullet has entered the market...... or maybe I should say, re-entered the market.
Charlie Hood has Allie Euber's set of 22 bullet making dies and is now making 52gr match bullets. He also plans on making some 60 grain bullets when he gets the jackets.
Mr. sent me a sample of his 52's that I shot in my WalDog ((some of you may remember this thread) https://forum.accurateshooter.com/threads/22-waldog.4032875/) to test, I used a higher mileage 12 twist barrel to shoot these and the results were just too good to not follow through with a fresh barrel.
So I delivered a fresh barrel, my WallDog reamer, and the rifle to a local smith and ordered 1000 bullets from Mr Hood.
A few days ago with all the fresh stuff in hand, I headed to the range (Landsend Benchrest Club) and set to find the magic load in this rig.
From my past experiences with lots of different short range bullets in both my WallDogs and PPC's, happiness is not usually far from the jam seating depth.
Let me explain what I call jam, as I know my idea may well be different that anyone or everyone else's definition of jam. After resizing a case I brush the neck very well then run a mandrel into the neck that is 1.5 to .002" under bullet diameter. I normally run over .003" and sometimes .005" neck tension (interference fit, grip.... whatever you want to call it). After getting the carbon in the neck slicked up by the brushing and running a mandrel into the neck, I just start the bullet into the neck making sure it is way long for the chamber. I lube ogive of the bullet with my resizing lube and chamber it. Whatever that measures Is what I call jam, sometimes I do this with a few cases and take the average and sometimes I just do it once. I back off this measurement a few thousandths for the first series of groups and incrementally move the bullet into the case .002"-.004" at each step........ 3 is what I shoot for but I make mistakes and accept the 2-4 range.
Mr. Hoods bullets shot VERY well at Jam-4 in the barrel, I proceeded to develop the load testing different powder charges and seating depths in an mostly organized fashion for 6 seating depths. I even went back and tested right at jam and played a bit when the wind got persnickety.
All the groups were shot without flags. NO HOLDING FOR CONDITIONS AT ALL!!! Most were shot in gentle conditions (well, gentle for us) 2-5 MPH winds with gusts to 7. There are four groups that were shot in persnickety conditions and I had already put all my loading stuff away when the conditions changed, but I really wanted to see what these bullets would do in this wind so I drug all my stuff back out and loaded up 4 charges and shot them.
While I was at the range the temperature was 64-68*F and the RH was 35-25%.
I think Mr Hood is on to something here with these bullets and I wanted to share that with you.
I am looking forward to shooting a few registered match's with them. Thanks Charlie!!!!
Contact information with Mr. Hood hoodcustomproducts@gmail.com
CW
Charlie Hood has Allie Euber's set of 22 bullet making dies and is now making 52gr match bullets. He also plans on making some 60 grain bullets when he gets the jackets.
Mr. sent me a sample of his 52's that I shot in my WalDog ((some of you may remember this thread) https://forum.accurateshooter.com/threads/22-waldog.4032875/) to test, I used a higher mileage 12 twist barrel to shoot these and the results were just too good to not follow through with a fresh barrel.
So I delivered a fresh barrel, my WallDog reamer, and the rifle to a local smith and ordered 1000 bullets from Mr Hood.
A few days ago with all the fresh stuff in hand, I headed to the range (Landsend Benchrest Club) and set to find the magic load in this rig.
From my past experiences with lots of different short range bullets in both my WallDogs and PPC's, happiness is not usually far from the jam seating depth.
Let me explain what I call jam, as I know my idea may well be different that anyone or everyone else's definition of jam. After resizing a case I brush the neck very well then run a mandrel into the neck that is 1.5 to .002" under bullet diameter. I normally run over .003" and sometimes .005" neck tension (interference fit, grip.... whatever you want to call it). After getting the carbon in the neck slicked up by the brushing and running a mandrel into the neck, I just start the bullet into the neck making sure it is way long for the chamber. I lube ogive of the bullet with my resizing lube and chamber it. Whatever that measures Is what I call jam, sometimes I do this with a few cases and take the average and sometimes I just do it once. I back off this measurement a few thousandths for the first series of groups and incrementally move the bullet into the case .002"-.004" at each step........ 3 is what I shoot for but I make mistakes and accept the 2-4 range.
Mr. Hoods bullets shot VERY well at Jam-4 in the barrel, I proceeded to develop the load testing different powder charges and seating depths in an mostly organized fashion for 6 seating depths. I even went back and tested right at jam and played a bit when the wind got persnickety.
All the groups were shot without flags. NO HOLDING FOR CONDITIONS AT ALL!!! Most were shot in gentle conditions (well, gentle for us) 2-5 MPH winds with gusts to 7. There are four groups that were shot in persnickety conditions and I had already put all my loading stuff away when the conditions changed, but I really wanted to see what these bullets would do in this wind so I drug all my stuff back out and loaded up 4 charges and shot them.
While I was at the range the temperature was 64-68*F and the RH was 35-25%.
I think Mr Hood is on to something here with these bullets and I wanted to share that with you.
I am looking forward to shooting a few registered match's with them. Thanks Charlie!!!!
Contact information with Mr. Hood hoodcustomproducts@gmail.com
CW
