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Thread: Searching for 200 grain 9.3 cast projectiles

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    Question Searching for 200 grain 9.3 cast projectiles

    As above Im looking for 180-200 grain projectiles to get the second barrel of my cape rifle on the board. Already got some ducks with the 16 gauge hole, and thats prompted me to finally get the other barrel up and running.
    Last year I tried some 285 grainers from shooternz but they keyholed and thats the only weight he casts. When I measured it the twist is 1:25 too slow for that length bullet.
    Researching the original chambering it is 9.15x57R (360 2 1/4 nitro for black powder express), and the standard bullet weight was 190 or 210 grains.
    So does anyone have a mold in that cal and weight range that I could bludge a few bullets off.
    I have found an Ozzie company that makes a suitable mold but am resistant to forking out $300 for something I may only shoot a couple of times.
    Any ideas? (even dumb ones except hacksawing some off shooterz bullets, as Ive already tried that and the results were "inconsistent )
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    Someone with a mill could make one pretty easy you need to find someone with a mill who is willing to have a play for the cost of a few beers as paying a machine shop would be over 300 for sure

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    dumb question but could you not swage down some cast .375 bullets (assuming you could find some suitable weight ones)?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mikee View Post
    dumb question but could you not swage down some cast .375 bullets (assuming you could find some suitable weight ones)?
    I seem to remember an older mate of mine doing something like that. He either bought the tool or made it but he used it to "true up"/ swage/size slightly bigger projectiles to the desired size.
    Something tells me it helped sharpen up the lube grooves as well, but don't know if that's a benefit or just cosmetics.
    Maybe worth a look as it doesn't sound like you'll be shooting a massive amount of bullets out of it.

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    Not dumb but will be a bit of a squeeze I am actually considering some .36 cal roundball at present.

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    article on castboolits about it,and what guys are adapting...$85 per hundred for privi projectiles in the too heavy weight range...maybe set up a hollow pointing jig like we used to use for .303 and reduce weight that way leaving you with big hollow point on a jacketed case????
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