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Woody, they are cast 285 gr plain base from straight wheel weight metal, done by a friend of mine. Here's what they look like when loaded up to fireform 30-06 brass.



CF8506 powder under a compressed cotton wad, beneath a compressed COW filler and the bullet. Consistently group less than two inches, and no leading at all!

As you can see in the pictures in my earlier post, the base of the recovered bullet shows no evidence of fusing at all. The base is square, and shows only the engraved rifling. The barrel has well over 100 loads down the tube with no cleaning at all. Just run one patch of Kroil after shooting session, and into the safe she goes.

As well as being accurate, the load fireforms to 9.3X62 perfectly. Just sqaure up the case mouths, and they're done!



Ted