help me 22 caliber bullet mold info

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lungpopper

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Good --bad--or ugly/ has anyone had any experience with the 22 cal bullet molds with gas check,is it worth it and are they very accurate?I realize you need to keep the velocity down and some other issues but any help would be great..might be looking to buy a 44 or 55 gr mold also..thanks mark
 
I learned the hard way, that the smaller the cast bullet, the tougher it is to get them to shoot well. Shot a bunch in a .223, and the only thing I ever killed, was a gopher who was dumb enough to sit on a rock: I shot the rock, because I could hit that...and the splatter took him out. I just didn't have the patience to work with them.
 
Did it years ago with a .222 . Had two loads one the lowest velocity I could go and one the fastest for cast bullets. Shot lots of gophers with it and used the slow ones to dispatch beavers in traps. I really liked them as there was a minimum report when fired and did the job. SM
 
I recently read an article about casting .224 bullets and using expended .22lr casings for the jackets.... It can be done in a pinch....

I'd just have to get my hands on the tools to do it...as I've saved several handfulls of .22lr cases, just for an emergency...
 
I was shooting PB powder in the lowest amount they listed and Winchester 748 ball powder in the max. I chose these because they had the lowest pressures if I remember correctly.This was 30 + years ago but I didn't target shoot so much as just sighted it in and shot them. I was using a TC contender super 14 with scope . The little gophers I was shooting are the size of a large bratwurst so I they had to be that good. Most shots were 20' to 100yrds . I tried not to shoot farther as a pheasants head looking up through the hay and grass looks exactly like a striped gopher... The PB load didn't even expand the brass and resizing was almost a formality . I was using a Lyman book for cast bullets for the loads. SM
 
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