Originally Posted by shaman
I am working up a cast load with H4895 and the 200 grain GC RCBS bullet. I hope to be pointing it at a whitetail again this fall. I'm shooting for roughly 35 REM to 358 WIN velocities. I'll be using the same amount of powder as my current 308 loads, and the bullets will be powder-coated pure lead. What's not to like?


I think you'll find pure lead is way too soft for that application, both in the bore and on impact. Air cooled wheel weights is about the right hardness for that velocity range, depending on the meplat size of your bullet. Even with air cooled wheel weights I found a significant accuracy improvement from applying lube on top of the powder coating (to keep the lube grooves from collapsing, not to lube the bullet). That was with the heavier Saeco 352 though; the lighter RCBS bullet may not collapse that way.