Joe, Friday, they shot phenomenal. I was shooting my regular load of 30.4 of 133. As you remember, we had a really nice right to left condition that was really honest. I was able to do a head to head with the same bullets made with clean cores. I think the wet core bullets were better.Jackie, did you draw any conclusions on your “wet core” bullets?
Joe, Friday, they shot phenomenal. I was shooting my regular load of 30.4 of 133. As you remember, we had a really nice right to left condition that was really honest. I was able to do a head to head with the same bullets made with clean cores. I think the wet core bullets were better.
That evening, that front came through, it rained like all heck. Sat morning, it was cool, with no humidity. Lots of wind, now left to right.
I was stuck on .350+ vertical. I tried about every trick I knew, nothing helped. It was a miserable day.
The next morning at the 200 yard matches, it did no better. I just about convinced myself that the darned rifle was broke.
After the first group in Sporter in the afternoon, I decided to switch to LT-32 that I happened to have. I put 29.0 grns behind that bullet and the rifle suddenly came to life, I nailed a Three, Four, and a small Five to finish up in some really tough conditions.
The wet core thing is definitely worth exploring.
I cored up 300 30 caliber jackets last night, using the same wet core formula. I will point them up and shoot them Sunday.
I was actually shooting some "sorta wet core" bullets as well. I had washed the cores in Coleman fuel and then just let them dry. But I had a miserable match with all sorts of rifle issues starting with a very old barrel and ending up with a broken bolt handle. But I could tell that they shot better than the flat base bullets I had.Joe, Friday, they shot phenomenal. I was shooting my regular load of 30.4 of 133. As you remember, we had a really nice right to left condition that was really honest. I was able to do a head to head with the same bullets made with clean cores. I think the wet core bullets were better.
That evening, that front came through, it rained like all heck. Sat morning, it was cool, with no humidity. Lots of wind, now left to right.
I was stuck on .350+ vertical. I tried about every trick I knew, nothing helped. It was a miserable day.
The next morning at the 200 yard matches, it did no better. I just about convinced myself that the darned rifle was broke.
After the first group in Sporter in the afternoon, I decided to switch to LT-32 that I happened to have. I put 29.0 grns behind that bullet and the rifle suddenly came to life, I nailed a Three, Four, and a small Five to finish up in some really tough conditions.
The wet core thing is definitely worth exploring.
I cored up 300 30 caliber jackets last night, using the same wet core formula. I will point them up and shoot them Sunday.
Pneumatic punch press comes to mind. One could be built or an existing likely modified to work. I used to see them used all the time.One thing no one has mentioned- "air assist" presses. What info does anyone have on this? Where does one get air assist assemblies? Or, is this a home brew device that one engineers himself? Would be nice on 30's for us old guys.
I have and use three pneumatic press actuators which were built by Charlie Hood - mostly use them for core forming (squirting), but also point the long-for-caliber BT bullets on them. Charlie built them to work with the Lee CLASSIC CAST presses . . . they could [probably] be adapted to RCBS (RockChucker, A2, etc.) types also.One thing no one has mentioned- "air assist" presses. What info does anyone have on this? Where does one get air assist assemblies? Or, is this a home brew device that one engineers himself? Would be nice on 30's for us old guys.
Al, if you blow the picture of the two sectioned bullets up, you can see that the radius at the base is just about the same on both.Jackie, that 'ring' area is likely the area of the ejection issue. If you compate those to the dry cores, do the wet cored bullets have a sharper edge at the pressure ring...a little less radius?