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Here is the issue as i see it from my experience.
you need to get your bullets a tad harder, I would water drop them from the mould and that should do the trick.
I had the same problem with my 35 whelen, tried lots of stuff. Turns out my alloy was a bit soft. I water quenched them and went from 4" groups to 1" groups with that being the ONLY thing I changed.
Last edited by blammer; 09/25/13.
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I bought the 286's. When I setup for casting an Accurate mold will be ordered. Thinking a .400 length gas check to crimp groove to keep the check in the neck, then bore riding forward with a big flat point. Not fixed on 286 gr maybe 250/255 gr.
The 286s will get paperpatched to 9.3 for my TCR barrel in 9.3X74 Longer neck, 1/14 twist, a smidge smaller case capacity.
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There they lie, just looking at me with their big shiny round noses. Send em to me, my Whelen has a 10" twist and loves long heavy boolits.
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Have you checked the throat on your rifle? I'm pretty sure when Remington standardized the 35 Whelen they gave it a long throat. Cast bullets generally don't work well with a long jump to the rifling, so you might try to seat out the bullets to get them closer to the rifling. From memory the throat length was around 3/8". As you have a Rem 700 you should have plenty of mag length to play with.
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Covered that in detaii. Anything short of crimped over the top groove WILL NOT CHAMBER. That is the issue! A reversed gas checked bullet throat gauge I made stops with half of the gas check in and half out of the case neck. My gun seems to be nearly without a throat! The gun is a stock 1988 Classic M-700. Shoots jacketed and pistol bullets really well, just not the Berthas, they seem pretty hard most probably WWs did not ask the alloy, as I bought them from our Guru Lee Stoner.
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