Skip Sackett
US Veteran
OK, here is another story about my lovely wife.
She is really a neat gal. I told you all about the Herter's press right? Well, this story is similar.
I was watching this mold on ebay and thought about making a bid. I told her about it and how I would like to have it. I hadn't bid yet though and then I noticed that someone else had. I bid once or twice and then the price got to be more than I wanted to pay so I stopped.
Here is a picture of the mold:
Little did I know, until Christmas day, that it was her that was doing all of the bidding and was doing it for me!
Did I tell you, what a gal!
The bullet looks like this:
The mold, even though it was advertised as an H&G, is a Modern Bond design. It came out of the mold with straight wheel weights @ .360" and weighing right at 162gr. There are two deep, square grease grooves with a wide crimp groove. It rivals an Elmer Keith design in that feature.
I loaded some up with a healthy charge of 2400 and ran them through my M686 6". Accuracy out to 20 yards was great. (Too cold to go outside and test them!)
Then I thought I would load some up for shooting plates with. The load is 3.0gr of Bullseye, my normal load for a bullet of this weight is 3.5gr but because there is much more bullet in the case I backed off just a tad for the first rounds!
I'm thinking this bullet may be a candidate for "THE LOAD" in the future. I'll have to call it something else though!
I'll get to the range (indoor) within the next few days and do an accuracy test on these and make another post.
Wish me well!
She is really a neat gal. I told you all about the Herter's press right? Well, this story is similar.
I was watching this mold on ebay and thought about making a bid. I told her about it and how I would like to have it. I hadn't bid yet though and then I noticed that someone else had. I bid once or twice and then the price got to be more than I wanted to pay so I stopped.
Here is a picture of the mold:
Little did I know, until Christmas day, that it was her that was doing all of the bidding and was doing it for me!
Did I tell you, what a gal!
The bullet looks like this:
The mold, even though it was advertised as an H&G, is a Modern Bond design. It came out of the mold with straight wheel weights @ .360" and weighing right at 162gr. There are two deep, square grease grooves with a wide crimp groove. It rivals an Elmer Keith design in that feature.
I loaded some up with a healthy charge of 2400 and ran them through my M686 6". Accuracy out to 20 yards was great. (Too cold to go outside and test them!)
Then I thought I would load some up for shooting plates with. The load is 3.0gr of Bullseye, my normal load for a bullet of this weight is 3.5gr but because there is much more bullet in the case I backed off just a tad for the first rounds!
I'm thinking this bullet may be a candidate for "THE LOAD" in the future. I'll have to call it something else though!
I'll get to the range (indoor) within the next few days and do an accuracy test on these and make another post.
Wish me well!
