New bullet

[Don McDowell]

Jim the 17 twist 44 straight barrels both shoot the 1.35 inch bullets so well, I see no purpose in trying to stretch it out to a longer length. I'm talking about repeatedly hitting to locator disc at 1000 yards type accuracy.
The 1.3 inch bullet in both a creedmoor shaped nose and more of a metford shaped nose has proven to me in my 19 twist rifles to both work well out to 1000 yards. Matter of act the 1.3 inch bullet saved a complete zero at 1000 at Raton during the nationals for me, and that's when I became completely convinced that length about as long as it can go in a 44-77 with the 19 twist.
I'ms being much the same thing going on in the 45's with 16 and 18 twist. The really interesting part is the 16 twist shoots the .446 525 money bullet quite well to 600, and decent at 1000, but the .446 535 will shoot tighter at 1000.
Hopefully this weather will give me enough of a break with the wind to sit down and do some good load development with this new bullet, but so long as we keep getting this much needed moisture, I'm perfectly content to not be able to do load testing.