A Favorite Cast Bullet?

[Cadillac Jeff]

I also like them all
some do work better tho <<< RNFP

 

[Ian]

I only have one and she is still number 2.

Right behind Hans.

I have shelves full of custom moulds but the older I get, the simpler I tend to make things. Powder coating also revolutionized my mould choice, as did deciding to try and make no more than two standard loadings for any given cartridge for which I have multiple guns (with wildly different chambers, it never fails).

.22 is actually looking like the Lyman 225415 with the front band bumped a little in a taper die shoots the best in my AR and bolt .223.

.270 Winchester still gets a paper-patched, shortened Midsouth Lee Cruise Missile (casts .272").

Rebarreled the 7mm-08.

30....hmm. 30-30s all shoot the Lee group buy 311041 modified copy well and Hornady checks fit so why change. MP 30-180 goes in everything else and Ed's Lee 312-155 shoots pretty well in everything too sobI keep that as a standby. Lee 309-230 for the blackouts.

The .38 Specials get the Lee 125 RF so's they shoot to the sights. Wife owns the only Maggot and it gets jax.

All the 35 rifles get the Lee 200 RF or the BRP 360-220 HP (now being produced by MP).

Sold the Short & Weak.

All the .45 ACPs get the Lee TL 230TC, and that's saying something because I have 20 or 25 suitable moulds.

.45 Colt gets either the Lee 255 RF or Accurate 45-297G.

.458 Socom and 45/90 get the Lee 500RF. Used to use the 457124 and the Lyman Postell but neither mould casts large enough or round enough to do better than 1.5 MOA.

 

[popper]

Just the ones that work. Others get gone. Do have a 9 & 40, rest are 30.

 

[JonB]

I'm thinking the 311gr Ideal 308291





LMAO !
Yeah, like I could actually pick a favorite.
I know some of you have seen this before, but I figured it needed to be seen again.

 

[fiver]

need to get you some sort of goofy clip on the end and sell those as drop shot weights to the small mouth fisherman over Brett's direction.
you'd probably wish you'd never started about 2 million units in, but you could make a killing up in the great lakes region.

 

[Rick]

I'm kinda fond of my own creation . . . The Half check bullet.

 

[JonB]

well, you really only need a GC for the side that is positioned away from the earth ...You know, Gravity and all, LOL.

 

[JWFilips]

Hate to put my eggs in one basket: but for me & my Rifles.... the Ranch Dog designs for the . 30, .32 and 35 caliber tells me all I need to know!

 

[fiver]

which is kind of funny since they were intended for marlin lever rifles.

 

[CZ93X62]

Nope, not going to use the 87/12/<1 alloy for fishing weights.

 

[waco]

I'm kinda fond of my own creation . . . The Half check bullet.

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Crank up the speed on that bad boy and see what the RPM threshold does to it....

 

[fiver]

halfassed?

 

[Brad]

Some shoot checked bullets with a check, some shoot them without.

Rick can’t make up his mind

 

[Rick]

Rick can’t make up his mind

Well I sure did. Both! At the same time.

 

[Brad]

Rick went off half checked.

 

[Walks]

I'm never "unchecked"

 

[Rick]

Rick went off half checked.

Yeah, that's been a problem for some time.

 

[Brad]

Ultimately picking a favorite bullet is not up to me, it is up to the gun and target.

I may like a design but if it doesn’t perform then It doesn’t get used.

 

[Mitty38]

Well my handle is Mitty38.
LEE .358, 158gr RNFP. Seams I can push them all kinds of ways in both 38 and .357. Light loads, to +p.
I have even taken a few close range (less then 50 yard) Coyotes with that bullet out of my 66.

 

[RBHarter]

At this point I could go on about the wonders of a 429421 being a perfect PP in a 92' 45 Colts . But it's modified a little .