Bills Shed wrote:Moa is all I need. They do what I need them to do.
Ref you using as WSM case to bump up to .270. I would like to see this. Got pic? How are to keeping everything straight a square?
You mentioned accuracy. Is it accurate? I am thinking not so much. Enjoy.
This is not a pissing contest. The question is Australia heading for a ammo / reloading shortage. I believe so. Use what you have, use it within it limits and you will be fine.
Bill
Agreed, MoA is all I need as well, I don't chase any tighter than that. But the swaged bullets can't give me that with any consistency, not sufficiently for shooting live game much further than 100m, too many fliers, even after weight batching them.
I have photos, but they're on my computer, which is down still.
I don't make any great effort to keep anything straight or square. It's a commercially manufactured jacketed bullet sitting inside a commercially manufactured case, a cylinder in a slightly tapered tube, it's square and straight enough for the purpose. Seating the bullet into the case neck is all the tension required to hold the bullet in place. It brings the bullet diameter up to .270".
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I have .277" bullets also that I can bring down to .270" but requires at least two sizing dies. But I eventually managed to get the 160gn Cruise Missile Lee mould, which throws well over-sized bullets.
It's for the Carcano, and is accurate enough for that purpose. I haven't tried grouping them since I first tried it, but I can do so again. It allows me to enjoy shooting the rifle more with cheap .243" bullets instead of the 85-cent .264" 160gn RN, which is the only bullet the rifle shoots successfully, so far at least. The composite bullet is accurate enough for plinking with, but not accurate as the 160gn RN. I haven't tried them in any other 6.5mm, and I'm not sure they'd even chamber with such a fat bullet, but it's a good idea to try them - I must do that.
I don't know where you got the impression there's a pissing contest going on. I'm merely giving you some real world feedback on my use of bullets swaged from .22LR brass. If I could make my own bullets this way, cheaper than commercially manufactured bullets, with sufficient consistency to at least come close to similar accuracy, I would. I found it wasn't worth the expense of making or buying the equipment, for myself. At the time, it was something like US$1500 for for the dies from memory? At the time that same money bought me 15,000 55gn soft-point bullets (Hornady and Sierra were $600/5000 and $700/6000 for the RooMax and SuperRoo - 12c apiece for excellent bullets - I paid $180/1000 for Tripod's), which will last me years, plus I have many thousands of other bullets, like the 55gn VMax, 55gn FMJ, 68gn BTHP, 62GN FMJ, and 80gn ELDM that I grab whenever Cleaver does their bulk specials. With the expected shortages, if I hadn't stocked up already, being equipped to be able to make my own jacketed bullets would definitely be a good thing.
Having a large supply of .224" bullets means I can also patch or sabot them up to run in anything that's bigger than .224" if I have to. I'm using Tripod's bullets in .30-cal sabots in .30-30 for example.
As I said, I'm happy to buy some off you for testing, for my own education, and to give you some feedback in another rifle.