38riverrat
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The popularity of 44 SPL for SD should go up with the release of the new S&W M69.
The 2 piece barrel promises excellent accuracy.
Best,
Rick
The 2 piece barrel promises excellent accuracy.
Best,
Rick
I don't have many "posed", purty pictures with my .44 Specials, but here's what I have:
Yeah, if the jacketed bullet does exactly what it's supposed to. Cast bullets at moderate velocity work more consistently and seldom fail. More velocity is not always a good thing.
IF you have problems picking jacketed bullets that work for you, that's on you. I just don't have that problem at all, so I get all the benefits of having a bit more velocity, for the faster kills!
DM
Horsemen, those full wadcutters are out of an old Lyman 429348 mould I got in this week. I cast those out of an alloy that was roughly 60% pure lead and 40% wheelweights. They came out at 185 grs. and about 10 Bhn.35 Whelen what mold is that I like the way it looks and Craig C I'd love to see your 5 44 specials please everybody else pics are more than welcome
A bit more velocity? How's that? Grain for grain cast bullets will yield more velocity than jacketed bullets due to reduced resistance in the barrel. If you're insinuating jacketed can be run at higher velocities out of handguns because of the propensity of lead bullet to lead barrels, that's an old wives tale that's been proven false many times.
I personally can't see that a jacketed bullet has anything to offer over a cast bullet. I certainly don't begrudge folks that prefer jacketed bullets in handguns, I just have no use for them.
35W
Yep...read #28, 58 and 62 and still don't know what you're alluding to.
"IF" jacketed bullets come into play, there's NO problem these days, finding and getting jacketed bullets to take the higher velocity (that kills faster) and perform properly.
In my handguns, I mostly shoot lead bullets, but there's no question that the faster the bullet goes, with decent penetration, the faster it kills (other than a CNS hit) and at some point I go to jacketed bullets to get the added performance advantage.
Well, I've been casting bullets since the 60's, I've been swageing lead and jacketed bullets since the 70's.
DM
^^^^^ This is me exactly, only for about 10 years. I was so bad at it, that cast bullets were more of a novelty; just something to shoot at the berm. Then I found then Cast Boolit site and saw what home-cast bullets were really capable of!I started casting in the early 70s. I didn't learn the real technology behind casting until I joined the CastBoolits web site in 2005.
Did I cast a lot? Oh tons. But not nearly as easily as today. Now when I get leading I know how to fix it. I know how & when to flux and to never use something like Marvelux. Usually, now, the very first bullets that drop out of the mould are good ones. And I know what to do when they don't want to drop either.
I could go on and on. There are sooooooooooooooooooo many old wives tales and just pure crap in the world of casting it's incredible that anyone does it at all.
It sure has changed my enjoyment level of casting to learn the simple, easy and repeatable solutions to the ordinary casting problems.
Just because I'd been doing it for more than forty years doesn't mean I was doing it right.
Cat
FACT: A jacketed bullet must perform as designed to work properly.IF you have problems picking jacketed bullets that work for you, that's on you. I just don't have that problem at all, so I get all the benefits of having a bit more velocity, for the faster kills!