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General >> Ammunition, reloading, shooting, etc >> do you use cast boolits or jacketed bullets? http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1506368035 Message started by Todd Doyka on Sep 25^th, 2017 at 7:33pm

Title: do you use cast boolits or jacketed bullets?
Post by Todd Doyka on Sep 25^th, 2017 at 7:33pm

i haven't shot my krag with jacketed bullets. my grandpap, dad, and my late uncle have. its cast boolits for me.

i use a 165gr ranch dog over h4198 and it goes roughly 1800fps. i've tried a 190gr boolit, but i like the ranch dog. my alloy is coww(clip on wheel weights) and a little bit of tin(11-12bhn).

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the right and the left are rd.
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this is at 100 yards. rel7 werks too!!!
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dialing in h4198 at 100 yards
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Title: Re: do you use cast boolits or jacketed bullets?
Post by RichWIS on Sep 25^th, 2017 at 11:01pm

Other than a few factory loads to zero one year when I was going to take it hunting all I shot through my sporter has been cast. Load is the NOE version of the Lyman 311284 sized .310 (bore slugged just under .309) with 10 grains of Blue Dot. With its short sight radius (20" barrel) even with Redfield 70KH rear I can usually keep it around 3 inches at 100 yards. Have put about 1K rounds of this load through the rifle and it was gentle on both the gun and I.

Title: Re: do you use cast boolits or jacketed bullets?
Post by madsenshooter on Sep 26^th, 2017 at 2:03am

I don't often hear of others using Blue Dot. The first cast bullet group I ever shot out of my Krag I used Blue Dot with a 168gr bullet from a Don Eagan made nose pour mold. I was very happy when I got close enough to the target to see that the group from the 12 or 13 shots I took could've been covered with a quarter! That was at a hair over 2000fps!

Title: Re: do you use cast boolits or jacketed bullets?
Post by psteinmayer on Sep 26^th, 2017 at 11:51am

I've been shooting cast out of my Bench Rest rig for a few years now. This rig is an 1898 cut down to 24 inches. It's wearing a Bishop stock, and sports a Kraghaus long rail and an LER scope. I shoot gas-checked NOE 311365 bullets at 185 gr that Bob casts for me over 19 grains of AA 5744 and a CCI 200 primer. It groups less than an inch at 200 yards doing around 1600 FPS.