boat tail bullet

[kokomokid]

I saw an old post where flour was used to protect the boat tail shape of a pp bullet. I was curious as to how far the patch was extended down the bullet and how hard the alloy was? Just too much idle time I guess!

[Kurt]

Oh yes, the hollow point, hollow base rebated boat tail bullet. Man I spent one whole winter working with that bullet. Making base punches for swage dies and finding a way to protect the fragile bullet base from getting destroyed when the charge is set off.
How can I help you?

[kokomokid]

I saw this post about the boat tail paper patch bullet and reminded me of when I used flour with a 405gr GG 45cal bullet to keep the wad from going up into the base. This was going to be my chicken bullet. I improved it somewhat but it was never going to kill chickens.
I know you probably put a lot of effort into this bullet and curious as to how far down you patched and alloy used? Some people were saying how great the boat tail would work on a subsonic bullet but I never saw the results?Did you ever try it with a nose other than hollow point?

[Kurt]

I tried the patch several different ways when using Bullet lube and B-wax as well as soy wax but that always stayed with the bullets or pushed the patch into the hollow base or glued the patch to the flat based boat tailed bullets. That also damaged the base. accuracy was never any good using wax or nothing under the bullet.
One day Carol was making some rolls and I picked up some flour and put it under the bullet and shot a few in the snow and that bullet in the photo above and the rest all looked like that with no damage to the base, flat or hollow.
With the bullet shown the patch was just below the rebate. The accuracy was good using this bullet solid or hollow pointed nosed as well as flat or hollow rebated. But the effort making this bullet was not worth it. It did not shoot any better then the regular flat or cup based bullets. I think the rebated boat tail is not as effective at the subsonic velocity's as they are at sonic.

Kurt