Thread: Bullet weight sorting

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

@Cordite Shit thats a smart idea for pp bullets, I piss around with parallelograms cut from copier paper dampened then wrapped tightly round the bullet so they shrink tight when dry. Fiddly as phuq and a moderatly high fail rate but they do work fine in my 1896 no 1 mk1. Let us know how they go

@Marty Henry

Thanks but not my idea, I got it from the www of deceit.

Well they didn't go well into the case later in the evening, even with some lube, unless I flared the case mouth "a little bit more than I thought it needed". A single layer of masking tape tears quite well.... )-:

Found some cases (HXP) will only hold the patched .316 bullets after the neck sizing. But other brass (CAC, S&B, PPU) must be made of thicker stuff as after similarly neck sizing them in my .303 Lee Loader they are very happy to grip the unpapered .307 bullets. (I believe I must have measured the bullets wrong btw as they are said to be double sized to .308, both before and after their copper electroplating).

I'll let you know how the shooting went. Worked far away from home this weekend, so no chance till this coming Saturday.