New bullet

[Kurt]

Don,
We all have our good and not so good days shooting matches or just burning powder. There is no just one good or magic bullet.
I tend to use bullets that are on the upper end of the length. For the 18 twists I try to use a bullet 1.4" and the 17 or 16 twists in the .44 and .45's I will stretch them to 1.5" but I select the ogive shape and powder capacity doing this. Heck for the 22 ROT .50-90 I use a bullet 1.5" and when conditions get rough I pick that rifle over the others if I have it along with me.

You mentioned above the difference between paper targets and iron. Paper or iron are the same in the end, there are winners and losers in both disaplins. Paper you shoot with numbers and irons you shoot with hits. The intensity with both disciplines is just as intense. You are shooting against the same shooters that shoot Nationals and Internationals, and frankly iron shoots are mostly larger with competitors now days than the paper matches.

I wish I had a place I could shoot out to the 1000 yard target for load development or practice but there just is not a place around east of the Miss. you can do this unless you do it during a match and even then some don't even have a 1/2 days practice for getting sight settings or checking a load.

Well I have to get back to the loading bench and fill some more cases for the Quigley or I cant go.