Afternoon fella's

Ever reminded yourself about something you already should know after the event !!

450 Ackley was king enough to send me some CBE 358250 projectiles for me to try as I had been considering purchasing this Mould. In my haste to shoot them and see how they would go I loaded a few batches stepping up in 1 grain increments from 38 gr AR2208 up to 41 gr of AR2208, about 4 grains under load data max

The once fired 35.303 cases neck sized , trimmed and cleaned, primers seated just right and exact charges weighed and loaded. The projectiles where sized and pan lubed, seated to the crimping groove approx one calibre deep. There was a magic load ready to jump out at me

I dropped a cartridge into the chamber with a satisfying thunck - closed the Silky smooth SMLE bolt SHIT - YOU BLOODY DILL - I had neglected to make a dummy round to check if these CBE 358250 projectiles would chamber

The projectile was making way too firm contact with the Lands, about a 1/4" from the metplat just below the round nose. The Rifles throat is too short, set up for the Jacketed projectiles I'd originally planned to shoot from the Rifle - I knew that !!!!!! just got carried away.

No harm done, had a few loads for testing in my Rossi 357 Lever so it was not a wasted trip. After some consideration of what I the intended use / want from the Rifle and since the realisation that $1 each is too much for a Jacketed projectile hence my determination to shoot Cast exclusively from it this morning I had a discussion with the Gunsmith who put this Rifle together for me and have left it with him and some sample rounds to have the throat lengthened.

Now I gotta wait a couple more weeks and start again. I also have a heap of Lyman 358315 208 gr proj cast up that I'm curious to see how they will shoot with the longer throat as they showed good potential with the short throat.

regards Jacko