44 slicks

[Mike]

Don, Yes, I still have rifles. in just a couple of minutes I'm heading out to one of our local shoots. My .44/77 is my choice again.

Mike, Let me suggest that you try Accurate Molds' #44-400P, that's a tapered slick weighing 400 grains. It's working rather well for me and I'm using it in Jamison brass. Take a look at it at www.accuratemolds.com. Mike

Mike,

Thanks for the info. Your design looks pretty cool! I am going to have accurate do something similar with a blunt round nose. Is you rifle the standard chamber? Do you reload without resizing? What paper are you using and how easily do they chamber in a fouled barrel? My gun has a tight chamber so when i get the jameson brass ill have to fire form it and do some math to figure the base diameter im looking for with the paper i have.

How well does yours shoot with the tapered bullet?

Sorry for all the questions.

Accurate made a couple designs of mine (43-405p and 43-500p). The 500 uses thin paper and the 405 uses thick paper. This is for baco brass sized with 43 spanish lee die. Ultimate goal however is to get a bullet in unresized jameson brass that chambers easily in my tight necked gun and doesnt require fouling control. Hopefully it will shoot consistent 2" groups too.

Thanks for sharing

Mike

Mike, Let me try to take things one at a time. Yes, my rifle from C. Sharps Arms has a standard chamber. And I load my PP bullets without resizing my brass. But then I do resize the loaded rounds. That holds the paper patched bullets firmly so they can be carried in a cartridge belt if desired. No crimping, just resizing. The paper I'm using is an 8 pound (that Don recommended) and I do all my shooting without cleaning the bore between shots or between strings. Today I fired two 10-shot strings of with no trouble, in fact I placed 3rd in our small local match. (We had 8 shooters.) I want to say that my gun shoots very well with the tapered bullets and I do favor the tapered bullets over the straight sided. There are some other shooters who have more experience than I who will disagree with me and I won't argue, but I will keep on shooting the tapered slicks. And in our match today I was the only shooter using PP bullets. Shoot sharp, Mike