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Those are the ones to use, or go to cast bullets for lighter loadings yet. There are plenty of recipes for starting loads generating 2,300 fps at pressures as low as 35,000-40,000 CUP. The solution? Look at the 7×57 loading data in Hodgdon’s 2019 manual. 5/1902 will typically show signs of excessive stretching unless it is fire-formed first. No more! Current factory hunting ammo is too hot for it (chambers run from 0.006 to 0.013″ longer than SAAMI maximum specifications). 5 in 7×57, it features a steel action for the pressures generated by a 173 to 174-gr. Should you be so lucky to own a Model No. I have no idea where the bullet went, but then I did set up a target to check things and realized the utter folly of my inspired loading. My backyard prey was a crow perched high in our oak tree (he could be laughing still). I ran out the door and went hunting without even trying it out on a target.
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Slowly the round buckshot became a cylinder and when it would just fit in the neck of the empty case, I gave it a coat of beeswax and hand-seated it over 1/3 of a case full of Du Pont Bulk Shotgun powder. OO shotshell was broken down, and I was in business. Two pieces of plate glass were found, a 12-ga. 28 caliber bullets by rolling - yes, rolling - OO buckshot pellets between two pieces of glass. The light bulb went on for me! What if I could make some. Somewhere I’d read a reloader was rolling his cast bullets between two pieces of heavy, plate glass to size them. 58 caliber Springfield musket and reloaded shotgun shells with rudimentary hand tools and Du Pont Bulk Smokeless Shotgun powder, I was full of teenage confidence. I owned no dies, no press, but having successfully fashioned glass marble loads for my. The 10 empties I now owned cried out to be reloaded. The other half was saved for the fall deer season where it proved a 175 SP was heap big medicine on our local whitetails. One-half box of “factory” loads was consumed with getting to know my new rifle. Anyway, I was in business, but the sticker price was almost what I’d paid for the rifle - a lesson learned. He was curious what I was going to use it in. He said it was the only box of 7×57 he had, and he didn’t know why he even had it. Much to my surprise, Henry, the sales chief, dug around and came up with a green box of Remington 175-gr. On the other hand, shotshells and centerfire ammunition were displayed on open shelves behind the front counter - where I was headed. My area of the store was the gun rack and a wall of wooden pull-out drawers where the. They seemed to stock everything you needed, and if not, they could find it. Rural hardware stores were a sight to behold. Lacking a chain outlet in my area, I headed to the local hardware store. These were the days when there were no “gun shops.” Rifles, shotguns, handguns and ammunition were only to be found at your local hardware store or maybe the local Sears Roebuck or Montgomery Ward outlet. There is a price to be paid for being cheap. FMJ military 7×57 for $4.50, but it was almost half the price of the rifle so I’d passed it up. Winfield had also offered 60 rounds of 175-gr. With rifle in hand, it finally dawned on this giddy teenager I needed some ammunition.