Eutectic
posted this
12 January 2017
Thanks David,
I did Ransom Rest testing with two button nose wadcutters one H&G bevel base and a Lyman plain base. I could see no difference in accuracy, but the H&G produced a higher % of perfect bullets, and I did not like the way the Lyman 4 cavity handles worked. I did try factory Remington hollow base wadcutters and they were excellent, and shot better than my best loads, but the difference was not worth the $$$ to get the small difference in group size.
Ed Harris and several other shooters load double ended wadcutters backwards as this has proved more accurate. So I tried this with my H&G button nose and got a bit worse grouping than my normal loads. So I tried some commercial cast DEWC, but quality was poor and alloy too hard, accuracy was abysmal, no use trying a comparison. I was thinking about a mold so I can control the quality.
Am I tired of my 40 year old H&G mold, or just looking for something new to fool with? Probably the latter, since any accuracy improvement is likely to be small.
Steve Hurst
Probably “New Mold Syndrome"