Hyde's patched

[Kurt]

There are four different types of bullet bases. The flat base now used by most shooters, the hollow base, cup base, and the dish base.
I haven’t seen any of the vintage PP cartridges I pulled apart that had the flat base. In my opinion, because I don’t know for certain why the ODG's used the cup based bullets for the PP bullet but I think they had in mind that the cup base would help seal the bore and most important; a place to tug the twisted tail into and fold it flat with the base and help protect the base. The dish base is also for the under fold of the patch to keep the bullet base flat.
There is nothing wrong with the twisted tail it will release just as fast as the under fold of the flat based bullet. I spent most of a day one time shooting in the shed under a no wind condition to see how wet patched, dry patched, with twisted tails folded under, and patches just barely folded under the base "Hyde" it made no difference. I did not see any patches go farther one way or other except for the wet patched bullets; some went farther than average dry patched.

The way I look at it is; do it the way that will gives you confidence in your loads.

[Don McDowell]

I like the cup base plug that Dean cut for the tankbuster bullet. Seems to me that base is less likely to carry the tail of the patch than the original Sharps deep dish base.At least I have yet to recover a bullet with paper or wad in the base, and the scores that I managed to scrape together at the midrange matches in Raton tell me that bullet is working.
I do find a slight difference in the finished diameter of a wet and dry wrapped bullet. Read somewhere (can't remember which old dead guy) that wet rolling was preferred as it removed the sizing from the paper.
Doing it the way that gives YOU the most confidence, that's the key words right there.

[Don McDowell]

I think I mentioned this already, but another thing that somewhat amazed me was, at the gong, there were no dimes from the 16-1 bullets..

[Kurt]

The hard bullets fragment when the hit iron especially if the bullets have antimony in them. You get less kinetic energy with the hard bullet than the soft L/T bullets.

I can tell by the sound of the tone at the Q when I shoot a hard or soft bullet.

[Don McDowell]

I know there's sure a difference between these pointed bullets and the round nosed ones when they slam into our little gong. Roundnosed seem to have a much deeper tone.