.62 Calibre Jager

[pcrum]

I know I'm putting the cart before the horse here, but I'm asking anyway :grin: My Jager is finally finished being built from a TOTW kit. I ended up sending it off to Alan at Adolphsen brothers. It's done, but I'm stuck working out of town for a few weeks before I can go home and send him the final payment and get it. In the meantime I'm surfing the web and looking at bullet molds. It appears that lee makes one in .60, and Lyman makes one in .610. I've always used lee molds for my other castings, but .60 seems a little small to me.
If anyone here shoots a .62 colerain barrel, what size ball do you use?
Thanks!
Pat

 

[RC]

I'd wait... till ya can measure the bore or better yet shoot it.. try both if necessary, but lymans are some$ for something you might not want to use or can't... might need a 595 ball..or 600..or 610.. i'd wait...imho.. :thumbsup:

 

[RickD]

I have a .62 and I shoot .600

 

[Bubba45]

Have your builder mic the bore then decide.

 

[Hamourkiller]

If I am not mistaken, Green Mountain .62 bbls run .61 in dia and likes .60 balls. I have a Long Hammock bbl and it runs .62 in dia and it likes .61 balls. Both with pillow ticking and both bbl's rifled.
I would personally have the maker check the diameter and go from there. (As has already been suggested.)
Have fun with the new rifle!

 

[Sherlock]

I shot a .604 ball from a sc Lyman mould in my Colerain round grooved .62 swamped transitional jaeger. I used a .020 patch to load easily with the ramrod and had plenty of deerhunting accuracy. Wonky

 

[Elnathan]

Wait, and figure out which ball YOUR gun will need before buying a mold. Even barrels from the same manufacturer will be vary somewhat.

 

[Stophel]

Buy some .600 and .610 balls and see before you get a mould. One of my guns took a .60 and the other took a .610....right now I don't remember which is which... :hmm:

 

[Birddog6]

Yep, don't buy a mold til ya know for sure. I had 2 of them here,(still have the one) both were identical Colerain barrels, but one took a .600 and the other one a .610 ball. And Lyman makes a mold for .600 & .610 if ya want that brand, as I have them both.
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[ffffg]

Good advice above, order .015, .017, .020 patches, and .600, .610 balls..and try them.. Your bore diameter, land/groove height and width, along with twist will finally determine your ball size and patch thickness with what load that is best.. (After its broken in).. So youv got a ways to go.. The barrel maker can usually give what shoots best right down to the amount and type of powder, if its been copied properly and around long enough.. First id concentrate on having fun and putting 200+ rounds thru it to get those sharp edges rounded off. If it has deep grooves youl probably want to start with titeweave thick patches and a .600 round ball.. Track sells .020 high thread count patches from main shooting supply that i really love in my chambers .62 deep rifling (.018 deep) bore.. I found that i just needed a higher thread count in that bore to stop cutting patches.. .. dave..

 

[Hawkeye]

OK, we seem to have beaten the patch/ball combo to death, what is anyone using as a powder charge?

 

[Grizzled Roberts]

I have the same barrel in an English Sporting rifle ( an English Yeager ) I have great results
shooting 70 grains 3F, 20 thousands patching & a.595 ball. This load can almost be pushed in with the ramrod. The .600 ball and 17 thousands patching has tendency to cut the patches. I need no advise on how to clean up the feather burrs
in my barrel. We covered that months a go. It does not touch the 20 thousands patch but cuts up the 17 thousands. I am very happy with the .595 load. VERY happy!

 

[Birddog6]

I own 2 .62 cal rifles & have built 5 Jaegers in .62 cal. All had round bottom rifling & none of them cut patches. In fact I cannot remember the last time I had a barrel that cut the patches, but also I have used round bottom rifling in the past ? 20 rifles I guess, and this radius groove or round bottom rifling seldom has a patch cutting issue, well, that has been my experience anyway.

Anyway, on most of the .62 calibers I end up using 80-90 grains of FF range. One rifle likes 80 grains & one likes 85 grains, had one that like 95 the best. Just have to play with it a bit.
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