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New bullet
05-23-2021, 10:57 AM,
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RE: New bullet
I think if you keep the nose on the short side of things that you can stretch the OAL a bit and still be pretty well stabilized in the 19-twist and especially if you don't shoot it too far from the 19. It would be very well stabilized in the 17-twist and would shoot as far as you would want. Exactly what length you could get away with I'm not sure but I think that it could be estimated fairly easily.

If the nose length was adjusted to be say 40% of the OAL and still maintain that original looking profile the length might be stretched to 1.350" or maybe even 1.400" and have good stability out to 600 yards in a 19-twist. The problem is that molds are not cheap and trial and error can get expensive very quickly.

When I developed my 18-twist 2-D .40 caliber PP bullet I kept the nose a bit on the short side and a bit on the fat side and that worked out very well. I had an old nose pour adjustable mold that was originally made with a longish tapered nose that I used as a Guinea pig. It never really shot well as made so I machined it to have a shorter nose without the taper and also converted it to 2-D. Once I had a good idea of what length I could stabilize in my 18-twist and what length of base diameter worked best for the long freebore in that rifle I went ahead and cut a new mold at a fixed length and used my developed dimensions, diameters and lengths, from the adjustable mold.

Unfortunately I no longer have the access to the machines that I did back then. I still think I could come up with the design and length that would work in my 17 twist using molds I have with a minimum of machining and testing to get good results.

That same process could be used to develop a bullet that would work in both a 19 and 17-twist.

You give up some BC in designing a bullet this way, but an accurate bullet with a lower BC is not the worst thing in the world. You just have to turn the knobs a little more and shoot enough to know how much to turn them.

It would be an interesting experiment to see how well my little .40 caliber ppb shoots in a 16-twist rifle. I may have to talk to Arnie and see if he would be able to run some of those through his 16-twist rifle and see how they do. I'm guessing they would shoot very well and even might surprise us with how far they would shoot well.
Jim Kluskens
aka Distant Thunder
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New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-22-2021, 06:30 PM
RE: New bullet - by Distant Thunder - 05-23-2021, 08:38 AM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-23-2021, 08:53 AM
RE: New bullet - by Randy Bohannon - 05-23-2021, 10:37 AM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-23-2021, 10:39 AM
RE: New bullet - by Distant Thunder - 05-23-2021, 10:57 AM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-23-2021, 11:01 AM
RE: New bullet - by Distant Thunder - 05-23-2021, 11:02 AM
RE: New bullet - by Randy Bohannon - 05-23-2021, 06:25 PM
RE: New bullet - by Distant Thunder - 05-26-2021, 02:42 PM
RE: New bullet - by Kurt - 05-26-2021, 04:27 PM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-26-2021, 06:28 PM
RE: New bullet - by Distant Thunder - 05-27-2021, 08:01 AM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-27-2021, 09:06 AM
RE: New bullet - by Kurt - 05-27-2021, 12:19 PM
RE: New bullet - by Distant Thunder - 05-27-2021, 01:31 PM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-27-2021, 02:39 PM
RE: New bullet - by Distant Thunder - 05-27-2021, 06:39 PM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-27-2021, 10:01 PM
RE: New bullet - by Kurt - 05-28-2021, 01:45 PM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-28-2021, 02:43 PM
RE: New bullet - by Distant Thunder - 05-28-2021, 05:42 PM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-28-2021, 07:45 PM
RE: New bullet - by Semtav - 06-27-2021, 09:29 PM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-31-2021, 01:32 PM
RE: New bullet - by Distant Thunder - 05-31-2021, 05:15 PM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-31-2021, 05:47 PM
RE: New bullet - by Distant Thunder - 05-31-2021, 08:03 PM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-31-2021, 09:40 PM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 05-31-2021, 09:41 PM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 06-27-2021, 02:29 PM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 06-27-2021, 10:36 PM
RE: New bullet - by Semtav - 06-27-2021, 11:28 PM
RE: New bullet - by Rockridge - 06-29-2021, 12:02 AM
RE: New bullet - by Don McDowell - 06-29-2021, 12:03 AM

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