Here's my experiment, waiting to be shot.  I'm going to get out soon, I promise.  The bullet is from a mold I had made with a cherry from the estate of PA gunsmith and mold maker Don Eagan.  A fellow that was at that auction said he had quite a few Krags too.  The bullet is his MX3-30-G.  Checked and lubed in my alloy, they weight around 205gr.  Lube is an experiment too, a mix of LLA and Marvel Mystery Oil that's been drying for quite some time now.  I pre-foul the bore with a quicker drying version of the lube.  I've got them loaded with 37.5gr of RL19 and use a Fed magnum primer.  Should get me around 1950fps.  OAL of 3.33 has them into the lands, over magazine length but they likely wouldn't feed even if I did set them back to max mag length.  I'm going to use my cutdown 92/96 with the 12X scope.

The bullet is fully tapered, from .301 at the ogive to .314 at the rear band.  I have cherries to cut molds for this bullet and another similar one.  Eagan's molds were nose pour, the base is the same on each bullet.  I can't wait to get out and try em!

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