... Nah, you don't wanna hear about my H-110 load. 92 ONLY! I'm sure I missed someone's question so ask again. On the contrary.. my model 53 is a 92 clone, so I would be curious as to what the load is, as well as what kind of velocity you’re seeing. I need to chrono my 2400 loads, I assume they’re ...

Well I promised an update on this thread, it’s been a while... I still have yet to get a deer with the old 53, but I worked up a load with the .427” hard cast bullets. They seem to shoot well enough for practice loads, but I don’t plan on using them for hunting. An update on the micrometer; it was o...

Ok, the stuff from midway today. I resized all my brass then I measured my bullets--the came in at .429 with my micrometer. I was wondering if it might be off so I measured some .308 cal bullets. They came in at .310. I'm thinking it might be off .002. I'll load some up and report back.

I guess I'll have to sell them then, I doubt Midway would accept returns on bullets. Now would .426 bullets work well in my gun if the diameter is .429?

I guess I'll have to pick up some .429 jacketed bullets then--can I do anything with the .427 bullets, or is it just a wash there?

Well I slugged the barrel tonight--assuming I'm reading the micrometer correctly, I'm at .429 bore diameter. My next question is can I still use the .427 bullets I bought? The land diameter is .424 as near as I can tell, if that makes any difference.

I'll definitely have to slug the bore--it would be a real advantage to be able to use .430 bullets if its the right diameter. I know the gun and caliber itself are long time deer killers--every time someone killed a buck with this gun they notched the forend. There's 22 notches on it. Once I can fig...

OldWin: I think I'm gonna hold on to the old gun for a bit :mrgreen: I'm not like a speed freak or anything, I just want to be able to have enough energy to cleanly take a deer out to about 50-70 yards max. I know it's been done before at even longer ranges with bullets going 1300 fps (my dad got hi...

That's very helpful--the graph puts the pressure up pretty high for h2400 though, is it still a good choice for a relatively warm load?

It's a very nice gun, probably my favorite lever action we have. The bore doesn't look too bad, but I've never shot cast through it so I'll keep you posted on the leading once the dies and bullets come in. I'll try to figure out how to get pictures on here at some point, this is off an iPhone, so I ...

Thank you all very much--I think the bullets I got are pre lubed, otherwise I guess I'll have to make another purchase. I've heard the horror stories about trying to get lead out of the barrel, I wanted to use jacketed bullets, but they were all for .44 magnum. Am I correct that the .44-40 uses .427...

Thank you very much--I currently only have Winchester brass available to me, but I plan on buying better brass as I get more into it. Another question, should I expect any leading to occur or how can I prevent that? I previously only loaded .30-06, so cast bullets are foreign to me so I don't know w...

Hey, I'm new here and new to reloading--I recently ordered some .44-40 dies and cast bullets off midway--my question is, with a model 53 Winchester, can I go over the published loads in my book? I plan on using 2400 for my loads, and my manual (lee second edition) doesn't have 2400 for 200 gr cast b...