2R Lovell Max - anybody out there shooting this old wildcat with cast bullets?

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Tom-in-Pittsburgh posted this 11 October 2018

Just wondering if there's anyone out there with cast bullet experience with this one?

TIA,

Tom

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 11 October 2018

no, but would like to hear about your rig  ... and adventures with same ... hey, you need an old mold ... maybe the lyman 107 ?? ( i think ) .

ken, who likes old guns

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Ross Smith posted this 11 October 2018

Is that anything like my 308x1.625 Ardito?

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 11 October 2018

the R2 Lovell is a 22 cartridge developed from the old 25-20 single shot brass ...  this is a very skinny long case, and i still have one of the 25-20SS in my cartridge collection ....  

looks like a miniature 45-120 ...  the Lovell was pretty popular early in the last century, somewhere between the 218 bee and a 222 rem. i suppose.  

hope we hear more about this ...

ken

 

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gnoahhh posted this 11 October 2018

I shoot both an R2 Lovell and a .22 Maximum Lovell. The Max was built by Hervey Lovell himself, on a U.S. Krag action, heavy varmint weight barrel, Pacific double set triggers, "Marksman" style stock, nearly 12 pounds with Unertl scope. The R2 is a heavy varmint barrel on an '03 Springfield action, builder unknown. Both rifles are fond of the Lee Bator bullet, cast of WW's+tin (bhn 12-ish) and 2400 to the tune of 6 to 8 grains (not a lot of difference in accuracy between the two charges). Velocity unknown. Accuracy is MOA, whereas they both will do 1/2MOA and sometimes, but not often, even better with jacketed loads involving 4198 and 50 grain Sierras.

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Tom-in-Pittsburgh posted this 15 October 2018

Thanks for all the responses / input.

gnoahhh: your rifles sound like real classics. Both single-shots now?

My own 2R Lovell Max is built around a small Martini (not Cadet) action. Bull barrel and a 10X Unertl scope. It came with a good supply of both G&H 2R and reformed Winchester-Western .25-20 SS brass. Also a bunch of loads of 52-gr Sierra HPs over 16 grains of 4198 and CCI 400 primers. The reloading slip is dated in 2001 and these loads shoot really well off the bench at 100 yards.

I don't have the Lee Bator bullet, but do have a handful of GC bullets cast from Lyman moulds [225438 (43 gr RN), 225415 (48 gr FP) and 225462 (55 gr RN). Will try out your 2400 loads, so thanks for those.

 

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M3 Mitch posted this 26 October 2018

That's a nice looking rifle, do you know who built it and when?  Looks sort of late 50's to early 60's style to me.

For this sort of cast load, I always try Unique, it usually works well. 

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Tom-in-Pittsburgh posted this 27 October 2018

Sorry, M3 Mitch, the only markings are the BSA markings on the side of the receiver -- nothing on the barrel or anywhere else.

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mashburn posted this 11 March 2019

Dad  Gum It,

I'm drooling. Beautiful rifle.

Mashburn

David a. Cogburn

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