Thread: Help with casting bullets

Talk with rob shooternz its a common practice to resize cast bullets up or down. My old frank barnes book lists for reloads a bullet weight of 150 grains propelled by 2400 7 grains or sr4759 of 10 and recommends lymans number 311241 mold which is .311 in diameter.
A bullet suitable for the 310 cadet or 32 20 would be ok.
The only real problem with oversize lead bullets is occasionally you get tails of lead at the bullets base that can lead to poor accuracy. But basically if it goes into the leed it will come out the other end no problem.
Buy some and see is my advice.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Talk with rob shooternz its a common practice to resize cast bullets up or down. My old frank barnes book lists for reloads a bullet weight of 150 grains propelled by 2400 7 grains or sr4759 of 10 and recommends lymans number 311241 mold which is .311 in diameter.
A bullet suitable for the 310 cadet or 32 20 would be ok.
The only real problem with oversize lead bullets is occasionally you get tails of lead at the bullets base that can lead to poor accuracy. But basically if it goes into the leed it will come out the other end no problem.
Buy some and see is my advice.

Thanks for that. I think I might have trouble chambering .311" into a nominal .300"? A resizing die might be the way to go but the closest one I found is .308". How difficult is it to have one custom made?

Another thought I had was paper patching 7 mm/.284" - might be worth experimenting with that.

Originally Posted by Ayeoz

Thanks for that. I think I might have trouble chambering .311" into a nominal .300"? A resizing die might be the way to go but the closest one I found is .308". How difficult is it to have one custom made?

Another thought I had was paper patching 7 mm/.284" - might be worth experimenting with that.

Hi Ayeoz, If you want to send me your mould I am happy to cast some bullets for you, If they cast close to size you can shoot them as cast which is a cast bullet nuts dream
As cast bullets tend to be more accurate than sized bullets, As long as the cartridge will chamber you are good to go My.308 test rifle has a hight bore .299"/ .3075" and will
shoot .311" bullets cast as accurate as .309", measure inside the neck of a fired case that should give you an idea of the size the bullet can be, There should be plenty
of load data for the Sherwood on English reloading sites, Cheers Robert.

Here are a couple of useful resources for you whether you will cast yourself or not;

From Ingot to Target by Glen Fryxell and Robert Applegate

Modern Reloading Second Edition by Richard Lee

Good Luck