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Holy smokes! Those things are as crazy as the unlimited BR guns

I have photo's from Ned Robert's books showing some 40 rod ten shot groups and they're OUTSTANDING....for the era involved!! 40 rods equal 220 yards.

I have always looked at any info of the two part hard nose- soft base bullets. Some one must have been shooting into snow banks back in the day? THANKS for the post.

KOKO there was a time when the two part bullet was popular. Ideal for one made moulds for the two part bullet for the matches as well for hunting. Soft point hard base for hunting and soft base hard nose for the matches so the nose did not get damaged when seating the bullet and the base expands to seal the bore.
They were not just the round nose like the one below but also the truncated and the secant's

I have a set of molds for the .32/40 by Ideal. The main mold is #319295, the standard bullet for the .32/40 HP loads. The 'second' mold has the same number but that one casts only the point of the bullet. Cast that soft, then put the 'points' in the mold and cast the rest of the bullet around it. That gives you not only a soft point cast bullet for hunting but burned fingertips as well. Don't ask me how I know... Shoot sharp, Mike

Heck Mike, I thought burned fingers when casting was the norm

Kurt, Maybe burned fingertips are the norm, for you and me. Shoot sharp, Mike

I always heard that the two part target bullet, hard nose soft base, was to keep the forward section from slumping under pressure from filing with heavy charges in slug guns.

Not long ago, there was a guy on another site that was new to bullet casting, and complaining of burned fingertips. Turned out he was not aware that there were handles available to be used with bullet molds.