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larrynufer
I’ve always wanted to cast good pellets but never could until NOE started making fantastic pellet molds, I prefer the brass molds myself and when I pour I use a method some folks call “Pressure Pouring”, I use my old Lyman enclosed ladle with a pour nipple on it held directly to the sprue plate, then I tip both back and forth. I learned this a long time ago making mini balls for my Remington Zouave (jeeze 40 years ago) because using this method I could get the skirts to fill good every time. Well I’m finding it also works fantastic for pellets as well. I must also add a thousand thanks to Swede and Bob S. for their excellent effort to bringing these molds to us, they don’t come any better.
I’ll post three different pics of pellets from three different molds, my mold for the 250-34-RF is a 4 cavity, the 250-27-RF and 217-24-RF are both 2 cavity. So far I’ve only been using the lightest pellets for all three (longest pins) because the performance for all three has been exceptional. All three different pellets shoot extremely well at 900fps.
These pellets are beasts out of my DAR25 but there’s no doubt there’s probably many other air guns that they’ll perform excellent from. The last tune that I shot these with I was doing 62fpe and the ideal weight I found to be 34.5grains.
The ideal weight I’ve found for these pellets @26grains out of my DAR25 after detuning slings them at 905fps@47fpe
I’m using the 22 “Magnum Hunters” at about 850fps from my DAR22 which weigh 23 grains and I even shot a fox squirrel and black squirrel with it this morning. My modified Prod loves these to doing about 32fpe.
Swede I’m really looking forward the the 22 “Hunter” mold when it’s in the store, hopefully soon
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Thanks Bob !!! The pressure pouring is the way to go I think, the mold never gets hot as long as I pace myself. If I do go too fast I’ll get dimples on some of the air channels with the 22’s, I never had this problem with the 25’s which kinda makes me think the air channels in the .22 are just a little deeper ??? With the 25 cal Hunters I can go as fast as I want with no problems. Still even with the dimples on the 22’s the mold still runs plenty cool and would never warp.
As far as the accuracy of the cast pellets goes I doubt very much that I’ll need to be buying anymore store bought pellets in the calibers that I have now because they’re just that accurate. Here’s a video clip of shooting I did today using the 217-24-RF Magnum Hunter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VIdFF0zyJAThese pellets also shoot very good in my Prod as well, I’m getting 30+fpe with these in it.
This was about a 15 yard shot that I made yesterday while casting the 250-27-RF Hunters on my back porch.
At the time there was a chipmunk working on a cob of corn and a fox squirrel eating a walnut that just
continued on with their business when I shot the red squirrel. I hope they stay away now because they’re
becoming a real bad pest in this neighborhood. It usually keeps them at bay temporarily but eventually they
always come back.SwedeNelson
A couple of days ago I cast up 482 of the 250-27-RF with the next size pin and the pellets turned out great on the second go around because I had to readjust the pins but when all was said and done they turned out really good, I used them on a squirrel hunt yesterday basically to see how they were shooting and they’re just as accurate as the 26 grain ones were, they might even be a little better for long distance too.
Very happy with this mold, it’s right at the top of the list of my favorites.
rsterne
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