I thought I 'd post my latest bullet mod for smokeless application. With all of the difficulty and uncertainty we're currently faced with shooting component availability (and increase in costs) I thought I would see if a lead bullet would fit the bill.
I have a couple of custom bullet molds that I had made many moons ago. This particular spire bullet that I made finished off at 300 grs. and was a .453 dia. It worked well with my Savage smokeless back in the day but it was nestled in a 50 cal. sabot and I never gave any concern with leading or excessive speeds.
Fast forward to the era of the .45 cal sabotless craze and try as I might to get this bullet for perform in a sabotless application efforts were futile. I tried powder coating full forming gas checks and a multitude of reduced charges and I just couldn't get any satifactory results.
I was toying with saboted .40 cal bullets in a 45 sabot and I thought if I could get this to previously work in the .50 cal sabot I would try it in the .45 cal sabot .
Since I already had the .453 bullets made I thought I'd run them thru my .40 cal fixed die and voila It shaved the .453 dia. down to .40 cal and reduced the weight to 233 grs.
Here are a few pics of the final product. I haven't tried them yet but I'm excited to do so.
I also feel they should perform well on game and not be as frangible as the .40 cal 200 gr. XTP is.
I have a couple of custom bullet molds that I had made many moons ago. This particular spire bullet that I made finished off at 300 grs. and was a .453 dia. It worked well with my Savage smokeless back in the day but it was nestled in a 50 cal. sabot and I never gave any concern with leading or excessive speeds.
Fast forward to the era of the .45 cal sabotless craze and try as I might to get this bullet for perform in a sabotless application efforts were futile. I tried powder coating full forming gas checks and a multitude of reduced charges and I just couldn't get any satifactory results.
I was toying with saboted .40 cal bullets in a 45 sabot and I thought if I could get this to previously work in the .50 cal sabot I would try it in the .45 cal sabot .
Since I already had the .453 bullets made I thought I'd run them thru my .40 cal fixed die and voila It shaved the .453 dia. down to .40 cal and reduced the weight to 233 grs.
Here are a few pics of the final product. I haven't tried them yet but I'm excited to do so.
I also feel they should perform well on game and not be as frangible as the .40 cal 200 gr. XTP is.