Tuesday, March 02, 2021

He tried some of the .50-70,

and they all went bang, and at short distance shot well with the Lee 450-grain bullet over 61 grains of 2f.

There is now a compression plug to use in the neck expanding die, so we can work up a bit on powder; compressing powder much more than 1/10" or so with the bullet is generally frowned on, and with 61 that's what you get.

More to come.

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