44-40 cast bullets

i modified a stand for one of mine to bottom pour for hand casting.
it's much faster than running the machine [especially with 4-5 cavity molds] and the results are just as good if not better.

i'm kind of stuck? with 20 sum molds and one older machine setup for them, but i can put one of the drunk monkeys on it and they can make good bullets with it.
 
funny.
i was sorta rummaging through my shelf of loading data and 'stuff' and pulled one of those magazines out.
my dad had bought it some time back [late 90's iirc] and it was tucked in between a 'guns of the old west' and an early 2-K 'shooter' magazine.
 
fiver said:
funny.
i was sorta rummaging through my shelf of loading data and 'stuff' and pulled one of those magazines out.
my dad had bought it some time back [late 90's iirc] and it was tucked in between a 'guns of the old west' and an early 2-K 'shooter' magazine.
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Thats another good one! That one I have been subscribed to for a few years.
 
RicinYakima said:
Yep, a whole world out there not on computer or television or other electronic platform.
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It surprises me. As I am (and have been) subscribed to handloader magazine since the early 90's. Rifle almost as long as well as a few of there periodicals! Just somehow, never realized they also published this!!!??

I spied it on the shelf yesterday and said naw... there was typical G&A and Car Mags I came back and picked it up. My girl love love loves the old west firearms and wanted ta see the cover. She is the one who leafed theu and found the story on bison and showed me then I saw that 44/40 and the other story and I said I need this one!! She read the bison and wants me to find the pervious two!! I read theu the 45/70 loads story.

Blk powder CARTRIDGE loading isn't something I have done. I have tried RS a few times when I was shooting cowboy action just as a fun thing. Not sure Ill travel this path, but its interesting to read.
 
Like you I did the SASS thing once, just not my thing.

Load very little black powder except in original guns where it is almost required.

But I love the history and adventures of those who are really into that journey.
 
I still ladle-cast my long, large caliber bullets. SAECO #446 gets run through my old-model Pro-Melt.

Another thread had me doing Google-Fu, where I stumbled across SPG Tropical Lube. Where I live, SPG did fine work in cooler weather--about 11/15 to maybe 3/15 each year. 8 months of the year, it was unusable. This Tropical stuff supposedly has a higher melt point. Anyone on here tried it? That runny, melty original SPG dissuaded me from doing much with BPC. BP makes A LOT of sense in the hyphenated calibers, if I could have made it work year round.
 
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heck Allen, you know the melt point of bees wax and Carnuba wax are both 150-F.
not a lot more stuff you could add.... except a few micro waxes which i highly doubt they'd throw in a known BP lube.
 
Yessir......so I wonder what Magick makes 'Tropical' so 'Tropical'. It might just be labeling to entrap unwary Californians and other southern tier states' shooters.
 
Bryan Austin said:
John Kort took the 427098 and added the large lube groove and the crimp...thus the 43-215C.
Here is the information. https://sites.google.com/view/44winchester/contributors/john-kort

I took the the 427098 and made the 43-214A for smokeless powder. My last session (6-18-2026) at 300 yards grouped 9 of 10 shots at 11.94" https://sites.google.com/view/44winchester/targets/targets-load-development/2026-targets

1,350fps at the front and 950fps at 300 yards.
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These are interesting links. The pictures, however, are not shown What am I missing?
 
I just checked and the photos I can see. If you can not see them, it must be an internet issue somewhere.

To be clear, the first link sends you to John Kort's page where the link to his 215C information. The second link should take you to the 2026 300 yard Targets page.
 
fiver said:
heck Allen, you know the melt point of bees wax and Carnuba wax are both 150-F.
not a lot more stuff you could add.... except a few micro waxes which i highly doubt they'd throw in a known BP lube.
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That's a good thought, Lamar. Maybe SPG's 'Tropical Blend' just subtracted a viscosity thinner of some kind.
 
CZ93X62 said:
43-215C is a John Kort design for The Holy Black, per the Accurate catalog. Given the 1-38" twist in the 44/40 WCF, I wonder if a bullet of that length stays stable downrange.
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It does well to 600 yards with full black powder charges and SPG lube. Well proven by the late John Kort as well as more recent firings by Bryan Austin, aka Savvy Jack.
 
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