Plain base 311041

[fiver]

that base band is probably enough.
I modified a perfectly good rcbs 38 cal rnfp point mold one time by grinding it down on the base band just to get it lighter.
I pretty much screwed the pooch on it and cut it way too thin [and crooked]
of course I was using a belt sander and not a mill so it come out pretty good for that method.

anyway: even with the uneven and thin base bands the mold still produced good nuff for tin can shooting bullets, and I don't get any leading at the sedate velocity's I use it for.

 

[Ben]

I cast with my " New Mould " today.
I may have got lucky on this one.
The nose is plenty large enough to offer good alignment in my many .30 cal. rifles and pistols.
This one cast much lighter than Ian and I 1st guessed .............
It just might work.

Ben

 

[Ian]

Ben, I was going to modify my guess once I realized that a lot more than the gas check shank was milled off, but there wasn't much point as you were going to find out for sure anyway. Milling off the shank, a whole band, and a whole lube groove is a pretty big subtraction.

That nose base looks pretty good, BTW, and my prediction for "tack driver" remains the same.

 

[Ben]

Thanks Ian ! !

I also believe the bullet has more than a good chance to shoot well.

Ben

 

[fiver]

from the look of that front band I wonder if this didn't see some polishing in that area.

 

[Ian]

I bet it did. Today's mould by that number is like .297" all the way to the band, without much taper at all, and doesn't shoot for beans.

 

[Ben]

Like I said earlier.
Someone seems to have done quite a bit of work to this one.

Ben

 

[JWFilips]

Very interested in how that shoots in your 30-30s

 

[Creeker]

Handi rifle material.

 

[freebullet]

I was guna guess 130. If ya grind past the next lube groove 110 about like the old reduce load. Tom offers the 110 in his catalog, both should work dandy at pb velocity.

 

[Ben]

Handi rifle material.

My thoughts also. Might work well in my T/C 30-30.

 

[quicksylver]

Well an interesting alternative to the 311359...
I would think that taking the base band off would push the COG towards the nose...and changes the ratio of bearing surface to nose ....does that matter?...I don't know......does loosing that bearing surface matter?...probably not at the speeds that it will be pushed..I really don't know....

NICE NUMBERS ON THE NOSE...! much larger than I would have thought with your alloy Ben...

much lighter than I would have guessed...

All in All... very interesting...Let's see what Mr. Target says

 

[Ben]

I'm for that Dan !

Ben