Show us a pic of the mold and bullet. I'm I'm very anxious to see a BT cast bullet.

Frank

It's a beautiful looking bullet.  I've never seen one like it before. What do you plan to shoot it in? 30/40, maybe?

Frank

The 30/30 sounds the best. Try putting a filler over the powder to the base of the bullet to protect the BT. Maybe the shot gun filler Grex or in a pinch, Cream O Wheat.

Frank

Cat_Whisperer That is a fine looking bullet, make sure you let us know how it shoots for you, have always had the urge to have a 200 grain plus mould cut in that BT shape, I have been testing the bullet below with a similar nose but GC base.
Good Luck with it,
MIKE-T


I have test fired the Lyman 323366gc bullet with out GC in my 32-40W breech seated, my rifle has a 8m/m .323" bore so it fits really well. It shot just OK until I added a 1/32" plastic wad breech seated with the bullet, when I kept velocity to 1300-1400fps I shot some very good 100-200 groups with it this fall, then put the targets where I would not loose them & did a heck of a job as I can not find them. All bullets went though target nose on, really would like to use it but they only weigh 185-6 grains when cast from 25:1 alloy and even with the pointy nose they drift more than the pointed 215 B&D bullet I usually use.

1/32" thick HDPE polyethylene sheet material I cut with wad punch I use for cork wads.
Material was only $2-3 for a 12x12 piece, had 1/16" thick also, but it took a lot of work to cut.
MIKE-T

Funny that's where I got mine at!
Mike

Frank - Have you tried it w/0 gascheck?

Cat,
No, I haven't tried it at all. I'll never know if it totally seals unless I take the GC off it and since I have a double cav in the same bullet, I'll be able to to try it all three ways (PB, w/o GC and with GC). I don't think it will loose much value modified (they sale for about $65 on Ebay), it may even increase the value for guys like us. I also have a 8mm Mauser to try it in.

Mike,
Thank you very much for the load data.

Frank

Frank I have a Single cavity #323366, will try to re-cut the base band to a boat tail shape, nice part is if it does not work, I can cut again to plain base.

I have the # 38 B&M hand book (1958) it only list Lyman moulds, did B&M make moulds or have Ideal/Lyman make moulds for them to their specs? 

MIKE-T

The bullet is simply a boattail - no GC.

The mould could well be Lyman.  Only markings are on the edge - B&M and 311193 each on one half.

The bullet is shown and detailed on page 36 of the 1925 Belding and Mull catalogue 311193. 311 dia. 193 grains weight cast in no. 3 metal? Guess they has their own alloy formulas.
Suggested load was 17.5 grs. weight of no.80 powder.
So it was available as far back as 1925.
They also had boat tail cast designs for other cals.

Cat_Whisperer looking in my old loading log for my 32/40W loads using the 323366 bullet, I found that originally I had used 1 gallon milk jugs for plastic material to make wads for under the breech seated bullet, did not have any negative notes about results so it might be worth a try, and the price is right.
MIKE-T