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in a bullet of that diameter. He did try to work with me and sent some bullets that were .1450 diameter without a pressure ring but they really looked like they had been reworked, many showing wrinkles in the jacket, and they shot as bad as the others. Funny thing was after I got some Extreme Accuracy bullets I started getting good groups again so I can't really blame the loads or the barrel. Thank you for your post, I appreciate it. Too bad that Reeds seem to be the only .14 caliber bullets available these days. John Last edited by JohnW...ski; 12-23-2018 at 06:45 PM. |
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Wish i had the money to start making them.. i cant imagine its cheap to get set up to smash out projectiles..
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Bullet making
I haven't made the subcaliber bullets for myself in several years. Berger doesn't make the short J4 jacket cups for 17's that made the really good 14's. Longer cups requires more trimming as cups reduced to 14. I can make jackets from 22 rimfire hulls, also a multi step process just to make the 14 caliber jacket cups. The cores also have to be swaged from lead wire. Then seated into jacket cups, then ran into point form die and then pointed, another step. Each bullet requires 7 plus steps on a bullet press. Think pulling handle 700 or more times for 100 bullets. I still swag larger caliber bullets. The subcaliber are not worth the effort when I can buy them and they work in barrels .142 and .144. Have changed loads when changing bullets to see what bullet/barrel combo liked. That has been true with different guns in different calibers over the years. Had a 22/250 that used 3 different powders with 3 different bullets. Another 22/250 shot just about everything to same point of aim/impact. Part of the fun of shooting is finding out what a gun shoots best. They are often like women and can be fickle.
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