Can't wait to try this one! Just cause it's pretty!

[Brother_Love]

Probably will pattern like a shotgun! I hope it will shoot good though. The bullet weighs 194.5 grs. and the bands are .314" with the nose measuring .295", they were water quenched. I am planning to size them to .312" lubed with my new batch of Ben's Red/Hornady gaschecks.

These are for my 03 sporter.

 

[RicinYakima]

They look like my Lyman #311334 that I shoot in my Springfield. They are my walking around plinking bullets because they feed well and will fit into the magazine with proper seating. Nice rifle by the way, I like the bolt style! Ric

 

[freebullet]

O that's just heartbreaking... I regretfully passed on an 03 early this year that looked just like that minus the scope. When I went for a second look it was gone.

I'll be looking forward to your results.

 

[fiver]

.295 on the nose?
holy cow.
I think some powder coat might be in that molds future.

 

[9.3X62AL]

Or perhaps have a machinist cut a bore rider band into its nose.

 

[KHornet]

Yep, looks like a 334 to me also. My 334 is a shooter in all of my 30's.

Paul

 

[Intheshop]

Nice "package" BL.Scope looks good.

Minute of coke can,offhand @75 with a good swing on target?

 

[300BLK]

Its a pretty rifle, but don't get your hopes up on that bullet. .295" on the nose means all forward of the driving bands is unsupported.

 

[Ian]

Standard Lyman dimensions these days. Who knows, it might shoot at 14-1500 fps, but probably not. Even powder coat won't bring up a nose that small unless you double-dip it. If you have a K31 it might do ok with one coat.

Beautiful rifle. If you like using 50/50 alloy, NOE moulds might be the ticket for you. If you keep the antimony low and the total tin under one percent and run the mould and alloy both on the hot side you usually can get them to throw to the drawing's dimensions, but add any tin and they start to get fat quick. That gives you options, unlike Lyman.

 

[Rick]

If you like using 50/50 alloy, NOE moulds might be the ticket for you. If you keep the antimony low and the total tin under one percent and run the mould and alloy both on the hot side you usually can get them to throw to the drawing's dimensions, but add any tin and they start to get fat quick. That gives you options, unlike Lyman.

That's confusing, I use almost exclusively a 2% Sb, 2% Sn alloy and my NOE molds cast within a few 10ths of stated diameters. Don't know how many NOE's I have off hand but none of them cast either large or small using this alloy. Just hasn't been a problem.
.

 

[300BLK]

.314" band diameters and .295" nose wouldn't work in my K31s. Mine work well with more normal .301"x.310". There are at least 2 makers of barrels on K31s with one being tighter than the other. IIRC, Hammerli barrels are the closer to normal 30cal dimensions.

NOEs tend to throw about .001" over drawing diameters with my mix.

 

[fiver]

I have noticed the NOE's tend to throw big too.
the 140gr 8mm mold I got from them doesn't, it barely sizes to 324, and I usually have to put the Gator check on backwards to squeeze it in place in the star.

 

[Ian]

That's confusing, I use almost exclusively a 2% Sb, 2% Sn alloy and my NOE molds cast within a few 10ths of stated diameters. Don't know how many NOE's I have off hand but none of them cast either large or small using this alloy. Just hasn't been a problem.
.

Five NOE .30 caliber moulds all did the same thing for me. Same alloy will make -.003-5" on a typical late model Lyman mould, and be dead nuts on the money with an Accurate mould of .30 to .45 caliber spec'd for straight wheel weights.

 

[Pistolero]

It will be interesting to see how it does. It does seem like a long unsupported
nose. My K31s are .299 bore so would still be pretty loose on that one.

Bill