Did a lil casting...

[CWLONGSHOT]

So I sat in my tree all morning... Got pretty chilled. Hit McDonalds for a large coffee and went home. Hot shower while the lead pot warmed!
I needed some more Saeco 396 bullets and wanted another batch of 8MM’s.


CW

 

[Spindrift]

Two plies of fun, right there! Nice!

 

[Rick]

SAECO 396



Same bullet as SAECO 399 - 396 plain base, 399 gas check.

Without question the worst bullets I've ever loaded into a revolver due to the two diameter design. See the base band and middle band sized and the front band not touched. They lay in the chamber at an angle with the bullet nose pointed down (not supported in the throat by the front band), when the bullet starts to move the first thing to hit the front of the throat is the leading edge if the middle band and scrapes off pretty fair amounts of lead. These may well work in a rifle chamber but in a revolver they are a disaster.

In fairness to SAECO I doubt these were ever intended as revolver rounds buy hey . . . I had to try.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Im using them sized .356 in the 350 Legend.

So far they are showing promice. The profile is very good for feeding.

I dont see how they can “lay on there sides” Implying thats a bad thing, when over half is proper sized. Are you saying that because there isnt three bands same sized the bullet is not centered when chambered?

CW

 

[Rick]

Yes exactly. There is of course slop in the chamber or you couldn't chamber them. Without the front band being held centerline of the throat/centerline of the bore it is laying pointed slightly down off center. When the bullet moves forward the first thing to hit the front edge of the revolvers throat is the leading edge of the middle driving band. It then shaves lead off the band as it's forced up and into the throat.

By far the worst leading of a revolver cylinder I've ever had was with either of these two bullets.

 

[fiver]

that area at the top of the crimp groove looks like a disaster in the making without any help.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Well I guess Im just not completely understanding but so far for my use its a seems a nice fit as the bastard .355 barrel on these 350 Legends.
CW

 

[Ian]

They did shoot pretty well in your Legend first time out. Obviously they fit and are supported better than in Rick's revolver.

 

[waco]

CW. Your results are the best I've seen with cast so far. Very well done. I have been kinda sorta looking at those RAR rifles in 350. Just kinda neat.

 

[fiver]

355 and a solid throat is quite a bit different than a revolver.

I was referring to Rick's picture.
look up under that front band and at that long taper coming into it.
that has fail written all over it.
I probably shouldn't even point at it,,, that alone might make it slump over.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Hardness straight outta the pot. Was....



This morning, not quite a week later...



They are gettin harder!!!

Gotta coat and size today!

Merry Christmas!

CW

 

[fiver]

CW you think they'll settle down at 12 after another week?

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Time will tell!!