First chamber cast

[Distant Thunder]

" It more or less worked like a chucking reamer with a rounded nose."

Kurt,

That is what I made and it looks like it will work. Then I'll just bore the shank to finished size.
The problem with a single flute cutter for an olive of any length is that the cutting pressure is all on one side. That's why I wanted to try a 4-flute cutter.

I wanted to ask you what can you tell me about Medford's bullet design dimension wise? Finding much about how it was designed on the web has not told me much. I do have your picture and a picture of Dan Theodore's first "money" bullet and they are very similar. I've read that Dan later slimmed up the nose of the money bullet to what we see today. The Medford design is something I'd like to try.

[Kurt]

Jim, I would think it would be very hard to grind a 4 flute and get it proportional in dimensions. I would think you would have to anneal it first then turn it down with a lathe or use a grinder that has a fixture like for cutting a radius or a ball on a lathe then resharpen the cutting edges but that would be like making a cherry.
I think I will see if I can make a grinding jig to hold the bitt. It would be better to attach a small motor with a rheostat and set it at a low RPM while forming the radius, but I guess you can spin it with the fingers.

I can send you some of those bullets Jim. But I'm building a new man cave and I need to get it set back up first before I can swage some.
This has been keeping me busy all winter and I still need to get things in place.

   
   

[Distant Thunder]

That's pretty nice! Moving everything is the hard part and then finding it in the new location can be almost impossible.
When it comes to making things I have a lot more equipment than the average person even though I only have a fraction of what I once had.

No hurry on the Medford bullets, but a couple sometime later would be great. I've already got 3 bullet molds in the works for a rifle I don't have yet. I'll end up spending more money on molds than I have in the rifle!

[Kurt]

The room will be a place when guests come. It also has a full bath I put in with a 5' shower. I'm tiling it now and hopefully by the time match season starts it will be done or wait till next winter. Carolyn has been filling the shelves digging stuff out the basement I haven't seen in years. I told her you put all those dust collectors up there.....you dust them.

Those Ham radios have been sitting idle for about 15 years and I threw a wire on the ground a couple weeks ago and sent a morse code CQ and got a contact from Germany, so they still work even with the antenna wire on the ground.

I can understand the tool collection especially if you made a living doing it. Just in a few weeks since I had this Mill the tool cost is as much as the mill price and I still need more. I just have the needed basics now and I just drilled and tapped one rifle for scope blocks that went very good and straight. inline with the bore center.

[kenny s]

   

Shiloh 40 70 SS
100 yards
63 Swiss 1 1/2, drop tube and weighed
1 veggie wad
2 newspaper wads
BA Jim 395 'money type bullet. SPG lube
3.5 total Cart. length
rest on wood cross sticks, bench
on sweet spot, 4 inches from muzzle
tight shoulder hold
wipe between shots one wet, soap and water, one dry
compress. die seated 1/8,
slight fac. crimp to just hold bullet.

5 shots, 1 3/4 inch group
4 out of 5 in 1 3/8 inch group.
this gun/load will print this all the time.


Ken

[kenny s]

Shiloh 40 70 SS
100 yards
63 Swiss 1 1/2, drop tube and weighed
1 veggie wad
2 newspaper wads
BA Jim 395 'money type bullet. SPG lube
3.5 total Cart. length
rest on wood cross sticks, bench
on sweet spot, 4 inches from muzzle
tight shoulder hold
wipe between shots one wet, soap and water, one dry
compress. die seated 1/8,
slight fac. crimp to just hold bullet.

5 shots, 1 3/4 inch group
4 out of 5 in 1 3/8 inch group.
this gun/load will print this all the time.


Ken