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Oregan Trail/ Missouri Bullet Co
bambambam
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I was lookign at these to company's wad/semiwad cutters for .38/.357 Do the bullets hold up to their claims of low/no leading?
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If you slug your bore and find the bore is about .001 less than the bullet diameter you should be fine.
Leading has more to do with the bullet bore size match than it does the bullet hardness. A bullet that is well lubed and .001 over bore size will seldom lead even with full power loads.
If you slug your bore and find the bore is about .001 less than the bullet diameter you should be fine.
Would using a micrometer and hole gage to measure bore size do the same as sluging? I could find exact bore size and order bullets to correct size then. Don't have anything at desposal for safely melting lead.
Find a buddy with a 38 cal round ball for muzzle loaders, you can tap it through the bore with a dowel rod and measure it.
Round balls are dead soft lead, exactly what is needed to slug a bore, no need to melt lead at all. If you have some bullets that you have recovered from a range session that you KNOW are from your gun you could use those to measure.
FWIW I shoot about 10,000 or so home cast bullets every year, both rifle and pistol with zero leading issues.
Bpost, do you have a lead bullet manuf. that you recomend for someone who doesn't cast their own?
Like the ones I pulled that got stuck..oh wait.. they were JSP. Probly not going to work since they are jacketed?
Bpost, do you have a lead bullet manuf. that you recomend for someone who doesn't cast their own?
The jacketed bullets should be OK and long as you can tell the bullet made contact across the entire bullet surface, filling the bore. It might not be 100% dead-nuts on but close enough to see if you require oversize bullets.
The LYMAN manual has both lead and jacketed information in it, I just got one last month and it is very useful.
they lead less than the colorado cast bullets I used to shoot
Our club also gets a discount which is good for about half the shipping on 2k
So i used a caliper and slowly rotated the bullet in it and get a max of .356.The bullets were measured at .357-.3575 before I fired them. What size bullet you think I should use? .357 probly do from what you said earlier?
EXCELLENT! the standard .358 will work well for you! Just be glad the size is not .3585 or larger, that small difference will drive you nuts.
You will have good results with the bullets you asked about.
However, sometimes the lube commercial casters use just doesn't perform well at moderate pressure/velocity. Find out about the lube used if you can, you want a moderately hard one like 50/50 alox/beeswax or similar.
They use Thompson's Blue Angel Bullet Lube. Is that any good?
It's harder than I prefer but it consistently gets top marks, and the few times I've shot it I can't say I had any issues.
All commercial cast bullets are far too hard for most loads, have a mediocre lube, are often undersized and almost always have a bevel base. ALL of those features are specifically designed for easy casting and shipping, but NOT for good shooting.
To get proper cast bullets you have to order from a custom caster or make your own. Period. Paragraph. End.
In my personal, me-only, fully disclaimed opinion commercial cast bullets are - at best - a sorry substitute for real cast bullets.
All commercial cast bullets are far too hard for most loads, have a mediocre lube, are often undersized and almost always have a bevel base. ALL of those features are specifically designed for easy casting and shipping, but NOT for good shooting.
To get proper cast bullets you have to order from a custom caster or make your own. Period. Paragraph. End.
You'll only know by trying them.