Designing the 2-diameter paper patch bullet.

[Distant Thunder]

Don,

You'd have to look close to see a difference between the two, but the second one has a smoother, truer elliptical ogive. The first one has barely visible short line segments that make up the ogive. It has to do with two different tool paths used for the final cut. My problem with the software I use has always been that one tool path cuts the very tip of the nose better but leaves the line segment on the elliptical portion. The other cuts a smoother, truer elliptical from but does not cut the nose tip radius well and leaves the form a bit blunt.

I finally figured out how to use both tool paths and end up with just the best part of each. I guess I'm a little slow sometimes! The second mold has as close as I can machine the same nose shape of my very successful long range bullet. That's what I wanted this bullet to look like and now I know how to it.

I wish I had more time to make molds, I think I could get it down to a repeatable system, but so many other things keep getting in the way and sucking up my time. Assuming this mold works out I do believe I will be able to repeat the process with the same results. That is my goal. Even if successful I still would not be able to make them fast enough to make a business of it, it would never be profitable. I do enjoy making molds though.

The goal here is to get more information on paper patch bullets/molds out to other shooters and the 2-diameter concept in particular. I really think 2-diameter paper patch bullets have a place in today's modern chambered rifles and there are a lot of those rifles out there.