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Bigslug wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 1:56 pm Hee! I too am familiar with "assistance"

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I'm gonna be living vicariously through this one - no suppressors in California. I've always had a fascination with the WWII Delisle Carbine - - an unholy Frankenstein's monsters of a 1911 magazine and integrally-suppressed .45 (Thompson??) barrel screwed onto an SMLE action. This .300BO boltgun just seems like the logical growth of the concept.

Accurate Molds has a couple of designs that are specifically labeled for the B.O., and quite a few in the 240-260 grain range that are most likely intended for it. Some plain base, some gas check, some grease groove, some tumble lube, some smooth for powder coating. All of them with an ugly blunt nose that should thump a bit harder than your pointy "lipstick" bullets.

LONG noses on those puppies though, and I'd want to make damn sure whatever I cast was going to chamber without jamming up. If you're up for some truly mad science, chamber-slugging / pound casting ain't that hard. Pour a fired case full of pure lead about halfway up the neck. Let it cool, then chamber it. Next, take one of your lipstick bullets cast of pure lead and pound it down the barrel pointy-end first with a steel rod (quarter inch or whatever they sell that's close) strategically wrapped in masking tape to fit snug at the ramming end and along its length to protect the bore and crown. Thump it till it bottoms out and your hammer bounces off the rod. You'll probably need a rubber mallet to open the bolt handle and may need to tap your "ramrod" gently to extract the round, but you'll have a perfect impression of your throat, leade, and start of bore to measure for designing and ordering a custom mold from Accurate. I don't know if Tom at Accurate will design a mold for you off a chamber slug you send to him, but Veral Smith at LBT used to before his shop burned, which is what I did for the first mold for my Martini Cadet.

CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 3:45 pm Or……,
I could cast my bullets, give them two coats of powder coat and run them through the sizer. Stuff them in a case with primer and powder and shoot.

Bigslug wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 4:14 pm

CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 3:45 pm Or……,
I could cast my bullets, give them two coats of powder coat and run them through the sizer. Stuff them in a case with primer and powder and shoot.

We'll hope, and we'll see. The dual bullet weight, dual velocity, through a silencer concept of the Blackout is weird enough BEFORE cast bullets shove open the saloon door. Eager to see it in practice. Just sayin' if anything goes off the rails, I have tools.

Zee wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 2:32 pm My thumb stays on the right side of the receiver like it’s supposed to.

CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 5:41 pm

Bigslug wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 4:14 pm

CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 3:45 pm Or……,
I could cast my bullets, give them two coats of powder coat and run them through the sizer. Stuff them in a case with primer and powder and shoot.

We'll hope, and we'll see. The dual bullet weight, dual velocity, through a silencer concept of the Blackout is weird enough BEFORE cast bullets shove open the saloon door. Eager to see it in practice. Just sayin' if anything goes off the rails, I have tools.

Triple weight. The 110 and 130 use the same charge, similar POI. Similar enough to not fuss about at 100 yards.
110 Barnes for deer and pigs.
130 Speer varmint bullets.
230 grain red rocket cast

That’s all out of my 9” pistol.