I bought a Lee 314-90-TC but the dang thing casts at .321!!! I need a .311 to .310 bullet, so not yet but i did design a small 85 gr plinker that is next to go to Tom over at accurate.Edd's .30 always seemed like a neat idea to me, I've followed his threads off and on. Cool stuff, looks like a lot of fun! Have you shot light, plain-based cast bullets in it yet? I got a lee 120-2R a while back for some gallery-load plinking with my Savage 219s using pistol primers and a pinch of Red Dot.
Yeah that .314 is just a wreck, it has the slightest hint of grooves but they will not size concentric.A .314 mould that throws .321? With a Lee that means you end up with no lube groove after sizing.
How is case sizing for the cartridge? Is it a simple run case into full length sizer and be done?
Talk about a cartridge that screams to be used in a Marlin leveraction.
The 12 gr of 2400 is an absolute max load in a SB-1 (or shotgun) action. If running a 30 Badger in an Encore, Contender, SB-2, or ruger #1 it will make 300 Blackout numbers... quickly...Oh heck yeah! I didn't realize it would get along like that, nor did I consider the levergun option but that would make an absolute dreamboat of a Model 92 or '73.
I am, it is an amazing little bullet, one of my favorites.Who is the maker of the bullet on the Right: 144 gr SPGC ?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
I agree that wildcats are hard to sell, this lil guy won't ever be for sale! But if it was i could always ream the chamber to a larger 30 cal round that isnt a wildcat, like a 30-30Started off with the thoughts of the 32-20/30-20 in a TC as a toy. Well in short time the "super slow" thoughts invaded IHMSA. Some very useful data came from that brief fad along with a fee cartridges. I still have a few select small 30's. They will never be updated so as to protect the innocent and ignorant.
I load all of my "HV" type loads so as they won't fit in the older guns. Got the Blackhawk that will chamber a 140 PB and use the full length of the cylinder.
I liked the rimmed bottle neck from the 38-357-357max necked to 30. Though a rechamber of a wildcat is a hard sell in most circles anymore. Marlin is missing the boat if they don't chamber the 327 in a lever gun. When and if they do I won't miss out on it like I did the modern 32-20!
Jeff
Sure they count! Nothing says "centerfire" in the title.