New bullet

[Don McDowell]

Jim I have brass for the 44's running out my ears, but I'll bet there's someone that will need it somewhere.

I think that there are probably a lot of shooters wondering why they have some problems at longer distance, and probably like so many of us do, start doubting loads, eyesight etc... But in reality if they just dropped the bullet length a tad things would turn around quick.
2 bullets I really like in the 45-70 are the Saeco 645 and the BACO .446525. I did shoot the 446525 in my 16 twist 45-90 with reasonable results but that tad bit of extra length of the 535 it holds better at 1000.
Here a while back when testing some loads in this 77 I shot about 15 of them. The 18 twist in this barrel sort of showed some promise with that bullet but the wind conditions were so switchy it was hard to get a good read on the bullets perfrormance at 1000. One thing that has me real curious is when I went to clean the target up for the next load, there were 4 fresh bullet holes you could cover with the palm or your hand in the railroad tie just under the target.. But the question then becomes were they all 4 the misses we couldn't see dirt on in one string, or were they randomly there in that tight group by coincidence... more questions with no answer,, yet..