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[Kurt]

Bruce.

The bullet on the right is a 473 gr .433" diameter 1.460"long 473 prolate bullet cast from a Brooks mould.
The center is a 507 gr .431 dia. .1.461' long elliptical bullet cast from a KAL base pour mould.
The left is a clone of a Sharps bullet cast from a Brooks adjustable mould set at 1.330" long and it is .431" in Di. and 480 gr.

The two Elliptical I shoot in the .44-100 straight with a 1/17 ROT. They shoot extremely well in this rifle. But the prolate gets a little squirrely showing slightly oval holes at 1000 yards. The Elliptical has the advantage over the prolate at 1K. I use it for the creedmoor matches.
Now the sight settings between those two bullets with the same powder type and charge is the same at 1023 yards with 84 gr of 2F KIK with a sight setting of 180 pt. That is 130 PT above my 200 yd setting.
The Sharps bullet I use mostly in the .44-77 and the .44-90 bns It will outshoot all of my bullets I have for the .44's with the 1/19 ROT.
I don't have the range books here in the house handy but in the .44-2-5/8 BN with 100 gr of 2F KIK the sight setting is 182pt. Yes it takes a little more powder but I have found nothing that will out shoot it in the 1/19 ROT. I have not yet used it in the 1/17 ROT .44-100 at long range so I cant say what it will do in that rifle past 1K.

It will be interesting to see what that Prolate will do in my new .44-75 with a 1/16 ROT.

Kurt

Edit, I might add that the prolate bullet is the most consistently shooting bullet at 200 yards. I have put 5 through the paper at 200 that a quarter will cover with room to spare.