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We should be seeing bullets in the next few weeks.  Hornady is now producing all of it's lower production bullets, and .303 bullets are among them.  Also Woodleigh bullets are arriving soon from AUS.
 
I was told this by in the last week by both Hornady, and Midway.
 
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Midway got a small amount of 180 gr Sierras last week and doled them out  I was lucky and got one (the last?) box.
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Good news on the ammo being produced again! THIS time I am going to stock up in spades.
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Yes Midway also got some 215 gr Woodleigh's in but they would only let me order 1 box of 50 so I passed. With shipping they would have been nearly $1 ea!
 
I didn't need them that bad as they will be strictly for hunting but I at least needed 100 for load development and hunting.
 
You guys really need to get into boolit casting. If you run out you just go to the garage and make some more.  For 99% of your shooting they will fulfill your needs just fine.  A completed .303 round loaded with a Cast Boolit is worth about .09 cents US. .03 for gas check on the boolit, .03-4 for the primer and .02 for the powder.
 
The vast majority of my shooting with Centerfire Rifles and handguns is done with boolits that I cast myself.  .30-30,.308,.30-06, .303Brit, 44 and 45 pistols and .45-70.
 
I know it sounds complicated but after you get set up (< $100) you can make good boolits quickly. Lyman has a new Cast Boolit Handbook  that they just revised for the first time  since 1978 and it has virtually everything you need to know about the subject.
 
I started with a Lee .44 cal. mould, a lead dipper, and small cast iron pot used on my kitchen stove. I made thousands of boolits with that setup.  I shot every one of them thru my S&W M29 revolver. I still have all those tools, except now my wife would make me use my little one burner Coleman Stove outside.  I have much more equipment accumulated over 40+ years, but I could go back and make good boolits with the above mentioned stuff at a Camp Site if I needed to and load them with a Lee Loader.
 
I started Casting Boolits in 1976.  I find it to be one of the most interesting facets of the shooting hobby.  About the only factory ammo that I shoot now is .22LR.  and I can load any of my Centerfire rounds for less than .22's are currently going for.
 
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I would love to get some of your recipes for .303 , 30-06 , 30-30 ,308 cast !!!  I have been trying some for the .303 and the .308 but thought you may have something that is better than what I have found !!
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Kresten:  I am currently using 20.5 gr of 5744 powder with Lyman 314299 boolits for the .303.  Still refining that load as it still needs some work.
 
For the .30-06 it is 25 gr of 5744, and the .308 gets 21 gr of the same powder and the boolit is 311299 which is the same as 314299 except .003 smaller.
 
For .30-30 the load is Lyman 311041 175 gr with 20 gr of 5744. 
 
 I use a lot of 5744 just because it gives consistent results across many cartridges. I also have 10 lbs of it.
 
there are plenty of other powders that will give good results in these cartridges  2400 being one.
 
If you get ahold of some older Lyman Reloading Manuals they will show lots of loads for common IMR powders in these cartridges.  I got some from Lyman 45, which I have had since 1976.  There is also good information for Cast in these cartridges in Lyman 49 which is the current edition.  5744 didn't exist as we know it in 1976 but it is very popular now due to it's lack of negative issues when loaded.  It is not position sensitive at all.  It will leave some unburned powder in the barrel depending on your load but that really doesn't do anything negative. It is also not really Heat sensitive to a great degree which is desirable when shooting in hot climates.
 
The powder was originally designed for the 5.56 cartridge as 4475 but was rejected in favor of ball powders which meter better in automated machines.  I have used it in .223's but it doesn't flow thru the small neck of the cases very well which was the exact problem it got scrapped by the US Mil originally.  It was sold to a Russian who brought it back to the US as 5744 . It eventually ended up at Accurate Powders. It works well in LOTS of cartridges for midrange type loads like cast boolits.
 
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