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Ruger No.1 30-30 and lead bullets (Read 5365 times)

Gard72977 Full Member Offline Posts: 201 Location: Tupelo MS Joined: Dec 18^th, 2016	Re: Ruger No.1 30-30 and lead bullets Reply #15 - Jun 9^th, 2019 at 9:15pm	Print Post
	Gard72977 wrote on Jun 9^th, 2019 at 9:12pm: Quote: Gard: A Ruger #1 is particularly troublesome to throat without removing the barrel from the receiver. The problem is the little lip at the rear of the cartridge trough designed to deflect an ejected cartridge case. It sticks up close to the bore line. Takes a very slim reamer extension to go straight onto the chamber. Tricky. Don't ask how I know....!!!! Thanks for the first hand information. My current molds would require seating the bullet very deep. Depending on the bullet this causes problems. On some molds the 311299 ( noe copy) the front band would be down inside the neck. Most would have the GC down in the case. Although this seems to work for a lot of people I really don't like it I'm going to do a chanber cast. I guess I will buy be a mold that works with the current throat or have a gunsmith throat it. I have too many gun project going to spend a lot of money on this one right now. I may just shoot up some partial boxes of jacketed bullets that I have accumulated. In the end I want it throated for a heavy lead bullet. Probably the 311299


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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: Ruger No.1 30-30 and lead bullets Reply #16 - Jun 10^th, 2019 at 11:35am	Print Post
	Might also want to think about the difference in cost between having the barrel throated by a qualified gunmith. Or having him replace the barrel with one of higher quality so you end up with exactly what you would like to achieve when all is said and done. Ruger's I believe are hammer forged and they are not known for providing the best of match accuracy. Just something else you might want to take into consideration. Once you have compared the cost difference, possible additional accuracy benefits, what it is you would actually like to end up with including barrel size and profile all now being of your own choosing.

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gnoahhh Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1063 Location: Gaithersburg, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: Ruger No.1 30-30 and lead bullets Reply #17 - Jun 10^th, 2019 at 12:19pm	Print Post
	I faced a similar problem with a couple .30 rifles and reamed them all with a 1½º included angle piloted throat reamer. I also used the same reamer to make a bump die to resize the front of the bullets ever so slightly to conform to the new tapered leade. Nothing like a tapered object fitting into a tapered hole to achieve a straight fit. Downside: the system works best with single shots (well not really a downside ) as now the cartridges tend to be too long for a bolt gun magazine. It's a protocol pioneered by John Ardito of the CBA about 40 years ago.


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