Here are a few bullets I made yrs ago for squirrels. I used a small powder dipper for bulleye powder. I would use this load in a 17 Ack. Bee and a 17 Rem. It shot about like a 22 LR and works great on bringing home the limb chickens.
Posts: 965 | Location: Texas | Registered: 19 May 2004
Very cool! Am I correct in assuming you made the mold? If you did, did you just design the cherry by eye so it looked right or was it more involved than that?
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Posts: 7777 | Location: Between 2 rivers, Middle USA | Registered: 19 August 2000
This was an eye ball design and the cherry was ground from an old end mill. I used a lathe to spin the cherry and used a fordom for the grinder. Just measure and make the cherry about .002 over size. The grooves were cut in with a thin cutoff wheel. The cutting edge of the cherry took more care in grinding the length of the cutter with a cutoff wheel. No heattreatment needed for the high speed cutter. One of the dies was to lube the bullet when forced through. The last pass was the sizer die. Making the mold was a bit tricky. I used the .125 pins to hold the mold inline.
I thought I would show this as sometime in the future we may need to make our own bullets.
Posts: 965 | Location: Texas | Registered: 19 May 2004
That is very cool! 300+ bullets per pound of lead, talk about getting your money worth. I thought 22 cal cast were fun, guess with the seventeens you need bifocals and tweezers to handle them. Thanks for sharing
Several years ago there was a group buy from Lee on a 25 grain .17 cal mold. This was to turn a .177 air rifle into a cape buffalo stopper. The heavy pellet was to carry and penetrate. I had no interest in it as I shoot my pellet rifle in my backyard and a bullet with a parachute that deployed at my property line would have perked my interest. Someone bought me one of the molds. The bullets tumbled. Then someone said shoot them backwards. Tried that and didn't get good accuracy and penetration was lousy. They weren't any harder to cast and shooting them in an air rifle I didn't size or lube them.
Posts: 3811 | Location: san angelo tx | Registered: 18 November 2009
[QUOTE]Originally posted by carpetman1: Several years ago there was a group buy from Lee on a 25 grain .17 cal mold. This was to turn a .177 air rifle into a cape buffalo stopper. The heavy pellet was to carry and penetrate. I had no interest in it as I shoot my pellet rifle in my backyard and a bullet with a parachute that deployed at my property line would have perked my interest. Someone bought me one of the molds. The bullets tumbled. Then someone said shoot them backwards. Tried that and didn't get good accuracy and penetration was lousy. They weren't any harder to cast and shooting them in an air rifle I didn't size or lube them.[/QUOTE
Yes, but you and SmokinJ are used to using a magnifiing glass and tweezers ]
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