Out of curiosity, last night I weighed and sorted a batch of .575 balls cast from a single cavity Lee mold, which is listed as 285 grains.
Here's how they broke out.
9 (3%) were under 283 grains (discarded those)
56 (20%) were 283 to 283.9 grains
84 (30%) were 284 to 284.9 grains
80 (29%) were 285 to 285.9 grains
46 (16%) were 286 to 286.9 grains
5 (2%) were 287 grains or more (discarded those)
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280 TOTAL
The balls were from two different casting sessions, one for about 200 balls and one for about 80. What I found interesting was that every one of the balls in the 283 - 283.9 class were from the second session.
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Did you ever measure the diameter of your balls to see if all that tumbling changed things? (I can't believe I asked that)
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Didn't think of doing that Cayugad. Too late now though. I don't have any untumbled ones left.
I agree nchawkeye. But what the heck - it can't hurt, and us old retired guys have lots of time to do things like that.
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Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
My concern was if I tumble some .530 ball and it reduced the diameter, they load easy now. So would I need different patches? Also I was just curious.
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I just measured a dozen of the tumbled balls. Almost every one was .576 - very consistent - with two or three very slightly larger - maybe .5765.
Now I really wish I had some untumbled ones to measure. Would they be closer to .575 (as the mold box states)? The tumbling leaves a textured surface on the ball, rather than the smooth surface left by the mold. So I'm wondering if tumbling increases diameter slightly - as with knurling.
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My wife says I'm totally nuts, but I think I'm Semisane.
Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
It will be interesting to see how well they shoot.
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It will be interesting to see how well they shoot.
Mother's day family activites will pretty much kill any chance for a shoot this week end. But the following week end I'll be at the lease with the .58 GM barrel mounted on the refinished Hawken stock and a TC hunter peep sight. You will be seeing a range report.
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My wife says I'm totally nuts, but I think I'm Semisane.
Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
Weighed & Sorted Balls
