kBob
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We occassionally get questions about BP in modern rifles around here and I usually pop up with the winchester 94 .30-30 vs .32 Special story where in the fast pitch of "modern" .30 cals is blamed for poor accuracy with lead .30 cal bullets.
It occured to me that the stripping, tipping and melting of lead bullets in fast pitch might well be due to the need to use full charges of BP in rifle cases to prevent kabooms and that if perhaps a smaller quantity of BP might be used MAYBE there would be some legitamate BP use in Modern .30 cals.
Specifically I am thinking in the pistol cartridges used in "shell shrinkers" Might it be that a BP load in a .32 S&W case with a lead bullet might not be driven to hard fast and hot for the 1-10 common .30 cal modern rifle twist? Or a BP loaded .32 ACP or even .30 Carbine? My only concern is the possibility of loading a bulet that was too slow to exit in my barrel. ALso it might be a bit nasty if BP residue were blowing around the shell shrinker.
I was also wondering if one took the conicals from those curved handle brass .31 bullet molds and pushed it through a sizing die if that might not make a usable bullet for these shell shrinkers.
I recently read of a guy making gallery loads for a .32 ACP using single O buck shot for a bullet and a hint of smokeless and am wondering if the round ball in that mold might not do for that as well as I currently use Single O Buck in my 1849.
See what happens when you are on the mower tractor thinking about nothing? Oh I am not mowing even in Florida today , though temps are to hit 80 F later today, I am am using a drag to spred the horse piles around the pasture. Ah, the joys of land ownership.
Back out to it.
-kBob
It occured to me that the stripping, tipping and melting of lead bullets in fast pitch might well be due to the need to use full charges of BP in rifle cases to prevent kabooms and that if perhaps a smaller quantity of BP might be used MAYBE there would be some legitamate BP use in Modern .30 cals.
Specifically I am thinking in the pistol cartridges used in "shell shrinkers" Might it be that a BP load in a .32 S&W case with a lead bullet might not be driven to hard fast and hot for the 1-10 common .30 cal modern rifle twist? Or a BP loaded .32 ACP or even .30 Carbine? My only concern is the possibility of loading a bulet that was too slow to exit in my barrel. ALso it might be a bit nasty if BP residue were blowing around the shell shrinker.
I was also wondering if one took the conicals from those curved handle brass .31 bullet molds and pushed it through a sizing die if that might not make a usable bullet for these shell shrinkers.
I recently read of a guy making gallery loads for a .32 ACP using single O buck shot for a bullet and a hint of smokeless and am wondering if the round ball in that mold might not do for that as well as I currently use Single O Buck in my 1849.
See what happens when you are on the mower tractor thinking about nothing? Oh I am not mowing even in Florida today , though temps are to hit 80 F later today, I am am using a drag to spred the horse piles around the pasture. Ah, the joys of land ownership.
Back out to it.
-kBob