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Had a little "experiment" go really well. I was recently loading for my neighbor's 5.7x28 in return for a bunch of roofing he's supplied me with (among other things). After a lot of very careful work on the project, we decided to scrap it before finishing with a $1200 hand grenade. So I have all this 5.7 brass laying around....
Running with Brian's 300 Win Mag trials, I decided to see what kind of fun I could have turning these stupid little cases into FL gas checks. So, I cut the shoulder off to a respectable length. Then I pushed in some #7 shot, dropped in an airsoft pellet, and squeezed 'em carefully into a 220 Swift FL sizing die with the decapper removed to form a basic Truncated Cone. Lastly, I ran 'em through a .311 sizer (finished at .312 after spring-back), and finished with a weight of 95.0 to 95.4gr on the small test batch. Originally I was intending to run them in my AK, but thought I'd push the trial run through something a little heavier--so I loaded one for my Mosin over 51gr. H335 (Data for a 110gr jacketed), and squeezed one off with a little hesitation. Not only did it fire well, and accurate, but the results on the dry-pack were simply amazing. Not target photos yet because I was too excited about it to bother with the camera. Photos of wet-pack tests coming very soon--just wanted to get this up right away. NOW I can go do the more scientific documenting stuff.
You'll note the nose is a little crooked--next batch will be run through the case trimmer to square them up better before forming--I was more interested at how well they would form up last night so I skipped a few things. Next run should be a LOT more pretty now that I know it has potential and don't mind spending the time on it.
Continued this afternoon...
HOLY CARP, BATMAN! What an insane bullet!
So I squeezed out a few more this afternoon with careful trim length, etc... Then I wet-pack tested one... So, with a couple plastic jugs crammed with wet paper and then topped off with more water, I sent one of these crazy little buggers into 'em.
Here's what it started out looking like...
Here's what I managed to recover from the middle of the second jug.
And then there's the first jug--or what's left of it. I heard "plop-plop-plop" for a good second or two after the hit from falling globs of soggy paper still falling. I have no idea where the lid to the coffee jug landed--could be in the next county, I never saw it after impact.
Now, the job is to dial in the load to tighten up the accuracy. It's gonna be limited I have a feeling, just by the nature of not having a solid core. But this bullet is gonna be truly frightening against any unsuspecting yote.
Running with Brian's 300 Win Mag trials, I decided to see what kind of fun I could have turning these stupid little cases into FL gas checks. So, I cut the shoulder off to a respectable length. Then I pushed in some #7 shot, dropped in an airsoft pellet, and squeezed 'em carefully into a 220 Swift FL sizing die with the decapper removed to form a basic Truncated Cone. Lastly, I ran 'em through a .311 sizer (finished at .312 after spring-back), and finished with a weight of 95.0 to 95.4gr on the small test batch. Originally I was intending to run them in my AK, but thought I'd push the trial run through something a little heavier--so I loaded one for my Mosin over 51gr. H335 (Data for a 110gr jacketed), and squeezed one off with a little hesitation. Not only did it fire well, and accurate, but the results on the dry-pack were simply amazing. Not target photos yet because I was too excited about it to bother with the camera. Photos of wet-pack tests coming very soon--just wanted to get this up right away. NOW I can go do the more scientific documenting stuff.
You'll note the nose is a little crooked--next batch will be run through the case trimmer to square them up better before forming--I was more interested at how well they would form up last night so I skipped a few things. Next run should be a LOT more pretty now that I know it has potential and don't mind spending the time on it.
Continued this afternoon...
HOLY CARP, BATMAN! What an insane bullet!
So I squeezed out a few more this afternoon with careful trim length, etc... Then I wet-pack tested one... So, with a couple plastic jugs crammed with wet paper and then topped off with more water, I sent one of these crazy little buggers into 'em.
Here's what it started out looking like...
Here's what I managed to recover from the middle of the second jug.
And then there's the first jug--or what's left of it. I heard "plop-plop-plop" for a good second or two after the hit from falling globs of soggy paper still falling. I have no idea where the lid to the coffee jug landed--could be in the next county, I never saw it after impact.
Now, the job is to dial in the load to tighten up the accuracy. It's gonna be limited I have a feeling, just by the nature of not having a solid core. But this bullet is gonna be truly frightening against any unsuspecting yote.
