Designing the 2-diameter paper patch bullet.

[Kurt]

Arnie

The 65 gr load of 3F Swiss shot well with the 358 gr DD bullet you drew up for me. It will make range safety at Lodi at 1380 fps but I don't have enough left for a complete match. Hopefully the new lot of 2F Swiss coming from BA will work as well.
I'm finding the 2F OE shoots just as well as the 1.5 last lot of Swiss. Really this rifle seems to digest just about any load pretty good.
The last load sessions I did with the CPA .38-50 is still a problem getting it comparable with the .38-50 DZ Hepburn. I been looking for a barrel to re barrel it it just never has shot well consistently and I will have it rebored when I find a place to send the barrel for the .44-75 Ballard chamber. I like that caliber.
I had a new .38-50 reamer made by Manson with the Dan-T design, like your rifle and right now I'm making a sizing die for it for the proper chamber match. I will make it sometime next week.
I haven't decided yet if I will get a 10 twist or another 12, maybe a gain twist????

But right now I'm not sure if I can improve the 12 twist using the 371-360-E-DD.

Kurt