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Newbie to Muzzle... What Ammo? What powder?
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<blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 4347785" data-attributes="member: 15054"><p>Your 1:28 twist will work fine with the Powerbelt bullet as will 1:48 twist.</p><p>I have shot hundreds of them and never any plastic fouling.</p><p></p><p>I have always used loose powder and never anymore than 90 gr of it Pyrodex RS and tripple 7.</p><p></p><p>70 gr was stated as a good start load and it really is. My FIL uses 60 gr and 295 power belt and kills them dead.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It is true the old Hollow point Power belt bullet would shrapnel apart at 90 gr but it did it inside of the animal and created massive trauma.</p><p></p><p>Ruined a big area of meat you could have eaten.</p><p>Many years ago before the power belt tipped bullets came out there was a Power Belt forum and I was on it.</p><p>One guy made a lead mold to cast a small screw shapped piece of lead that would insert into the hollow point of the bullet.</p><p></p><p>Testing: shoot the HP as is and it would blow apart on impact if shot at 90gr or higher.</p><p>Then insert the leat plug into the HP of the bullet and shoot the same load. The bullet now sort of mushroomed and stayed together.</p><p></p><p>I made a spot in one of my homemade molds to make the inserts.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>On that same forum one guy tested lubes and preseratives and found the CRUD RING was caused by TC 1000 Bore Butter.</p><p>Many of us quit using that stuff and we were no longer having a crud ring issue.</p><p></p><p>Even using patches with that yellow stuff on them will cause the crud ring.</p><p></p><p>I use paraffin wax melted in a pan with coconut oil and make my own patches and saturate them in the warm fluid in the pan them remove them and let them cool and bag them up.</p><p></p><p>You could use bees wax as I have done that but it is not as hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="swampratt, post: 4347785, member: 15054"] Your 1:28 twist will work fine with the Powerbelt bullet as will 1:48 twist. I have shot hundreds of them and never any plastic fouling. I have always used loose powder and never anymore than 90 gr of it Pyrodex RS and tripple 7. 70 gr was stated as a good start load and it really is. My FIL uses 60 gr and 295 power belt and kills them dead. It is true the old Hollow point Power belt bullet would shrapnel apart at 90 gr but it did it inside of the animal and created massive trauma. Ruined a big area of meat you could have eaten. Many years ago before the power belt tipped bullets came out there was a Power Belt forum and I was on it. One guy made a lead mold to cast a small screw shapped piece of lead that would insert into the hollow point of the bullet. Testing: shoot the HP as is and it would blow apart on impact if shot at 90gr or higher. Then insert the leat plug into the HP of the bullet and shoot the same load. The bullet now sort of mushroomed and stayed together. I made a spot in one of my homemade molds to make the inserts. On that same forum one guy tested lubes and preseratives and found the CRUD RING was caused by TC 1000 Bore Butter. Many of us quit using that stuff and we were no longer having a crud ring issue. Even using patches with that yellow stuff on them will cause the crud ring. I use paraffin wax melted in a pan with coconut oil and make my own patches and saturate them in the warm fluid in the pan them remove them and let them cool and bag them up. You could use bees wax as I have done that but it is not as hard. [/QUOTE]
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