I thought I'd share the latest results from my brief experiment with powder coated cast bullets in my sporterized M96 Swedish Mauser.  The modifications include a custom sporter stock, bolt turned down, and 1" cut off the muzzle.  The rifle is otherwise as the armorers left it, by the stock disk it had a new barrel at last refit.  It groups 3/4 MOA to 200 yards with a book medium load of H414 and the Sierra 160 soft point if the shooter does his part.  I acquired a Lyman 268641 mould which cast undersized, including the gas check shank (naturally), and powder coated the bullets to .2665" and added checks after coating.  Then sized to .2665" (on purpose) to clean up any little warts on the bands, and selected 25.0 grains of IMR 3031 as a starting point for low 1900 fps range according to Quickload data and extrapolation from jacketed bullet data.  First ten rounds made about a 1.5" group at 100 yards with one wild flyer.  Then I loaded five more and verified the velocity model with an average of 22 fps higher measured at the muzzle via my Magnetospeed chronograph.  That group measured 1.140" with no flyers.  Satisfied that I could hit the berm, I cleaned and inspected the bore and loaded five more cartridges with 30 grains of IMR 3031 for an estimated 2244 fps and produced this group.  207,000 RPM if the modeled velocity is accurate, and I surmise it is actually a little low based on the previous model.  It won't win any matches, but it will certainly put meat on the table.  If you're struggling with cast bullets in your Swedish Mauser, try powder coating and sizing to .2665".