44-77 brass

[Kurt]

Sam,

I have bullet similar to the 80-R that has a .180 meplat. The radius is just slightly longer and the diameter is .4307".
Your bullet with a .060 deep cup cast @ 1/30 L/T will weigh close to 480 gr and with a flat base it will be close to1.305" long with the same 480 gr weight judging from my bullets of similar profile.
This is a great shooting bullet in the .44-77 and also the .44-90 bn with the 1/19 ROT and also in my 1/17 ROT in the .44-100 Rem st.
I like the .430"-.431" for a hunting bullet for a fouled throat follow up shot. First shot clean bore patched tight and the second patched loose. This diameter I can adjust with the paper I have all the way to have patched the bullet slightly over bore diameter I like for match.
I'm getting ready for a second bullet like this with a meplat about the size of your drawing for a hunting bullet with a 1.320 flat based bullet with a .225" meplat for the .44-77. I like the slightly longer radius to hold the patch a little farther back on the shank and slightly farther ahead on the radius to keep the bare lead from making contact with the bore when the nose gets setback using the soft alloy used for a hunting bullet.

Kurt