Thread: Help with casting bullets

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.