cast boolet bases

[colo native]

how many here machine the bases of cast pils???

[rjohns94]

How so? not me but I'm interested by the guestion

[Thunder50]

I am too lazy to do that

[J Miller]

Machine them, no.

About all I do when I cast bullets is inspect the bases to make sure they are crisp and cleanly filled out. Those that are not are rejected.

Joe

[phc45-70]

ditto- J Miller. If they fill out the mold that is good enough for me. Those made to recieve a gas check may or may not get one. Either way I see no difference in accuracy, only in less leading of the barrel with GC. At least that seems to be the case.

[Tycer]

No way. I hunt, and don't benchrest.

[O.S.O.K.]

If I'm that concerned about the base of the boolit - it gets a jacket (gas check).

[Glenn]

What Thunder said.

I thought I knew a bit about base quality until about a month ago. I had some "seconds" of my 45 ACP 200 gr SWCs in a little tray and decided to lube them up, load them and go down to the local indoor range for some slow-fire practice. They were "seconds" because the bases weren't fully filled out around their circumfrence.

Well, I fired the best scores with those bullets that I'd ever fired with that gun (accurized, red dot sight, etc.). One target was even a 98/100! That's not easy on the 50 foot target with a 7/8" 10-ring . Yeah, I was having a good day, but the bullets had to be flying true as well.
Glenn

[Marc]

I had a similar experience recently. I was a few rounds short for a silhouette match so I picked the best 10 out of the reject bucket. Some of these were wrinkled but most had poorly filled out bases. I used them on 50 meter chickens and danged if I could see any difference from bullets with perfect bases. They went where the rifle was pointed. This was from an original 1873 in 44 WCF so I was launching them at about 1050 FPS.

[2X22]

When I cast a bullet that looks like the base needs machined, back into the pot it goes

2x22