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If your collection of .22 molds don't pan out, try rounding up a Lyman 225107 mold. It casts a stubby little 37 grain bullet that worked for me in the past when dealing with slow twist .22 CF's. I had a Sedgley-converted Low Wall Winder musket that they in their infinite wisdom rechambered from .22 short to .22WCF. Talk about a slow twist! The little 225107 solved the accuracy problem.
(If you go that route be forewarned that it was a tough little bugger to cast, for some reason more so than other .22 cast bullets which often are an exercise in frustration.)
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If what I have does not pan out I'll try that mould as well. All the little .22 bullets are a chore to cast and find and hold ;), I have to wear my magnifier headset. When I was younger I had some Niedner base-band .25 caliber bullets that came with some Niedner stuff I bought. I promptly went out and shot them up. I'll leave these alone, 
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It would be legal for you to use your new-old rifle on any big game animal in Maine. Per the regulations http://www.eregulations.com/maine/hunting/firearms-laws/ : Deer hunting
No firearm may be used which uses .17 or .22 caliber rimfire cartridges, except .22 magnum. No firearms of any kind may be carried while hunting deer with a bow and arrow during the special archery season on deer and the expanded archery season on deer, except that a person who also holds a license that allows hunting with firearms may carry a handgun but it cannot be used to shoot a deer or dispatch a wounded deer.
Moose hunting
It is illegal to use .17 or .22 caliber rimfire firearms, shotguns using shot loads or a crossbow. Hunters who have a moose permit and are 70 years of age or older or disabled persons who have a special handicap permit to use a crossbow may hunt moose with a crossbow (expires 1/1/2015). Since there are no limits placed on what may be used for bear hunting, by implication one could take their Marlin 39 out to get a bear. I would not recommend it, but it would be legal. Similarly, I would not recommend hunting moose with a 22 Hornet, no matter how good a shot one is. Moose skulls are pretty thick. The chances of ol' Bullwinkle making his way into a deep swamp b/c he didn't drop right away and then having to be recovered from in there militate in favor of a larger caliber more likely to drop him in his tracks. Nearer the road. On dry(er) land.
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Around the last year we were living on our place in the woods I figured out my hunting days were over with.
A big bull had pulled down a branch from my crab apple tree walked around the house and took the limb into the garage, the freezer was a good ten feet away so I didn't shoot him. Had he been closer....who knows.
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The excuses we lazy men come up with.  My dad would be saying something about "if you put the same effort into work as you do into making excuses for not doing it, you'd be done by now". Or something like that.
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Which rifle would you select to dispatch a bull moose in your garage, close to the freezer?
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I think he should use either his .400 Whelen ('06 case) or .400 Niedner (Newton case).
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Most of the big game taken by me when I hunted was with a 30-40 Krag of one sort or the other. Seems old habits die hard, the only loaded rifle around here is a 30-40 Krag.
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Crab-apple smoked moose...
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