In the mailbox

[J.B.]

Jim I think you are 'on the money' when it comes to velocities with the longer & heavier bullets in the 44. Please excuse the 'aberration' ..by digressing to some gg figures... but I managed to get a handful of rounds across a Magneto speed chronograph in late February this year... just before the world shut up shop and we were incarcerated like lepers . Too much down time with no shooting... means new moulds...so I managed to coerce Dave at BACo. and he kindly had Jim tool up a gg bullet for my 44 x 1/17" twist. Length is 1.435"... reduced forward bands and weight at 530 gns in 16/1. Loaded with 84 x Swiss 1.5, about .1" comp, 60 thou wad and BR2 primers...it was averaging 1300 fps. This was shot from a 1/19" twist rifle but the same chamber. As a matter of interest... my Brooks Postel style bullet at 484 grns with the same load was clocking only about 24 fps faster. Hardly a detailed analysis given there were only about 4 rounds of each...but its an indicator. Bullet seating depth on that BACo design is just below .3" so pp would allow a little more before room becomes scarce. Coal @ 3.395 - 3.4". They look cool....but they aren't 'PP Cool' .

J.B.

incidentally...that gg design is on the BACo website ..with a disclaimer to me as designer. Dave & I laughed... I can live with that. Definitely not the best contender for long range in a 44 x 2 1/4" with a 1/19" though.