I some of you know, a few of us purchased custom LEE molds to make conicals. Mine throws a .505 diameter conical that I then size down to .504 and it weighs in at 447 grains. These are for the White Rifles. The other day I was shooting .503 conicals out of my Green Mountain fast twist 1:28 barrel and noticed.. while accurate, they were short starter necessary to load. I wanted them to be easy to load, with out the short starter.

So I casted up a number of the UC Short Conicals and after reducing them to .504, I then reduced them down to .501 diameter. I applied a heavy stiff lube to them and let them dry. Today I tried them in my GMB and using 80 grains of Triple Se7en with the 1X T/C scope on the rifle, shooting at a 6" paper plate you serve cake on at parties, shot this 12 or 13 shot group (I stopped marking them after10)without swabbing the barrel.



They loaded like a dream. Maybe a little too loose for some people, but the more I shot the better they felt in the barrel. No short starter needed, no swabbing, and the accuracy was excellent at 50 yards on the white paper plate. Granted it was not a 1" group at 50 yards like some of you shoot, but for me with the 1X scope, that's a dead deer.

I then swabbed the barrel clean and shot some 300 grain (standard run of the mill) Shockwaves. I was shooting 110 grains of Graf's 2f black powder. I also was swabbing between shots very carefully. The first five shots were amazing to me to say the least. So to risk fate, I did not swab and shot #6. While still in the area, and I was not unhappy, since it loaded very nice, it did blow the main group a little. Over all I am ready for deer season.. Now to decide what rifle and bullet to shoot...