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stevenhart
Hello friends,
I wanted to share my success with my first NOE mold. I have a Marlin 1894CS. It has a microgroove barrel. It shoots jacketed bullets great but I cast my own so I was looking for a mold. I have had good luck enlarging my existing molds. So I bought my first NOE mold, a 360-180 WFN. It drops the bullets at about .362″ with my alloy. I size them to .360″.
The WFN design feeds through my rifle without a hitch. The targets posted were from my initial range trip. It is an indoor range and the targets were fired at 25 yards. I am very happy.
To NOE: Thanks for a great product.
Steve in N CA
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paulbrasky
“I have a Marlin 1894CS. It has a microgroove barrel. It shoots jacketed bullets great but I cast my own so I was looking for a mold.” …sgh
The idea that [Marlin] microgroove bbls. won’t shoot cast bullets accurately is an old wives tale as you’ve demonstrated. I have no idea where or when that misconception arose, but it hasn’t been true of either my Marlin #336 .30-30Win. or .45-70 Gov’t. Moreover, I never heat-treated my CB’s or used an alloy harder than WW’s + 1% tin to get superlative accuracy.
358 Win
I also have had success with my micro-grooved 1894C from 1979. I use the Ranch Dog version and have gotten my best groups with Alliant 2400 powder and ACC#9 powder. My speed was 1623 fps with 2400 powder. What a nasty sounding “whack” when a ground hog receives one of these 180 grain bullets with it’s wide nose.
darrellsteenwyk
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paulbrasky
358 Win
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