Cast Fun with the 8mm

[ohiochuck]

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Fun with the 8mm
8x57JR drilling success!
Looks like a fun project.
Jim

[sharps4590]

Good threads! I know I followed the one, Fun with the 8mm.

[ohiochuck]

Any one shooting cast in their German drillings?
Jim

[sharps4590]

I do in two of mine, a Franz Jaeger in 9.3 X 57R and another that was evidently rechambered to a 9mm caliber, bottleneck case based on the 30-40 Krag. That drilling is unmarked. My Thieme & Schlegelmilch drilling has the rifle barrel about 4 inches shorter than the shotgun barrels and I only shoot jacketed in it. I tried cast, one time. The bottoms of the shotgun barrels were literally lead plated and it was a chore to get off. That ain't gonna happen again.

[Diz]

Ohiochuck,

I am shooting an Accurate Molds 37-196B bullet that drops at 195 grains with my alloy. It shoots quite well in my Collath 9.3x72R drilling. Almost as good as the S&B jacketed bullets and I believe that with a bit more load development it will be just as accurate. Sharps recommended Accurate Molds to me and now I have three of them and they are all excellent.

Thanks, Diz

[Fred]

I bought my first German gun, a 9.3 Drilling in the early 1990s. I couldn't find any bullets, so I paper-patched some cast .357 pistol bullets and put them in front of a little 4227. They actually shot fairly well, but the process was too tedious for me.
Fat Fingers Fred

[mike ford]

While not drillings, I use cast bullets in 9.3x72R KLB, 11.15x51R BF, 12.7x42R BF, 11.15x60R M71, 8.15x46R mini 71, and am working now on 10x42R BF.
Mike