sleepless night

corey012778 · 11-11-2010, 09:35 PM

I could not get to sleep last night so I casted up some .459 405 gr. bullets and smelted some range lead (about 14lbs yielded about 9 or 10lbs of lead). the bullets dropped at .459 408gr. total of 81 bullets with 16 rejects so 65 good bullets. can't decide if I am just going to get the sabot for that size or size them down for the .451 sabot.

I thought I saw an post where someone was storing there bullets in an cartage holding case. how does it work out for ya? looks like an great idea.

cayugad · 11-12-2010, 05:05 AM

I have the same mold. Mine come out 423 grains. Must be the difference in lead. I store mine in old bullet boxes. I even stand them up and make it look nice. Plus you get more of them in there that way. I did size some of mine down to .451 and shot them out of my White .451 Model 97. They did a good job.

Semisane · 11-12-2010, 06:46 AM

My Lee mold for that bullet throws them at 422 grains when using pure lead. They do pretty well in the MMP orange sabots for .457/.458 bullets. I also size them down to .452 and shoot them in Harvester short black sabots. Cheap shooting.

corey012778 · 11-12-2010, 06:57 AM

these where out of wheel weight, may end up making some more and sizing an few, going some of the orange and black sabots. once I get my softer lead surplus up, going to cast some up for my win apex 45cal. really won't be until after april before i can do any major work, I also have an .252 255gr mold coming in.