Developing a .404 Jeff Cast Bullet plinking / practice load

[Ray B]

One option to obtain .424" cast bullets is to get cast bullets for the .44/40 which measure .427" and run them through a sizer die squeeze down the .003".

 

[3nyala]

Why not Hawk bullets, from 300 to 400 tn, $110 vs $68 for the bengals. Nice thing is they are soft copper and lead and would extrude well at reduced velocity here in this thread.
And a 404J is not one of the cheapest rifles to build or feed, so why not Hawks?

I searched for 404 bullets and only got main stream premium bullets. Hawk never came up. Also Bengal does not seem to have a way of ordering. I may have used an old link or something. I’ d go with bengals for practice for sure.

But does anyone think this will work?

 

[farmer_john]

Why? They’d be more expensive than the coated gas-checked HC .424” boolits that Bengal Bullets makes now.

.404 (.424

tiiarmory.com

Whats the difference in the hardness options?

 

[3nyala]

One option to obtain .424" cast bullets is to get cast bullets for the .44/40 which measure .427" and run them through a sizer die squeeze down the .003".

They seem to only be 200 grainers though. Want closer to 400.