50 mold

[Stephen Borud]

Cool Dave. With proper lube you should easily be able to shoot 3-5 shots without any problems. After that you can blow 3-4 long breaths down the muzzle between shots and shoot all day! I spent a couple days out at Orville Loomers cabin. Both if us shot our 50 2 1/2" Sharps, 100 grains of Fg, 3/16 lube wad and 473 grain pp bullet. We were shooting at a 24" steel bull at 412 yards. I got my barrel fairly hot, by blowing down the muzzle I lost no accuracy and had no leading. My last shot (#29) hit a 12" rock at 356 yards off hand. When you get a gun shooting like that it puts a smile on your face. 5 wet patches and two dry she was cleaned.

Stephen

[Stephen Borud]

Picked the 50 mold up today. This weekend I will fit the spruce plate on and see how she casts.

Stephen

[Dave Roelle]

Onward Sir !!!! -------------if i get some time today i hope to do some work on my 45 x 400----most of the pieces are roughed out, fit and finish next

[Stephen Borud]

Sounds cool Dave.

Stephen

[Stephen Borud]

I'm going to try and post a few pics of the 50 mold and bullet. It casts like a dream.

Stephen

[Stephen Borud]

The bullet turned out a little lite at 461 grains, target weight was 473. The nose design is just a tad off from the original, I think that is why it's lite. Mold cavity was cut at .496 od, the bullet drops out at .494-.4925. It looks like I got the shrinkage down right but was a little out of round when the cavity cut. Target OD of bullet was .494. I casted 5 good bullets and weighed them out. All 5 were within 1/10th of a grain in weight. The bullet drops out of the mold without any persuasion. Overall I'm am very pleased how this mold turned out. I will cast a few hundred bullets up to give the mold a good run down. I ended up using a piece if my paper patch template material for the sprue plate, it worked out slick. A antelope or deer will fall to this bullet in a month or so. If you notice I didn't put any vent lines in. I noticed that the old Winchester molds didn't use them so I didn't either. When I cut the faces I left them a hair rough and the mold vents without a problem.

Stephen

[Don McDowell]

You can almost hear the WHOP that will come back to you when that thing slams into something..
Hope they shoot as good as they look.

[Stephen Borud]

Thanks Don, I hope so too

[Dave Roelle]

Wow very nice work Stephen----------teminal balistics should be impressive for sure !!!!!!

It's sure satisfying when you get it right --------------alloy ?

Looking forward to the range/feild report

I'm fitting the 45/400 together this evening-------it's a departure from current convention ---i'm looking forward to the first casting session


Dave

[Stephen Borud]

Dave I shoot pure lead, it ought to leave a nice half dollar exit hole in a deer or antelope. Yes I can't wait to cast some more of these up and get to shooting them.

Stephen