The one that almost got away

[Don McDowell]

I was wondering if that thing had hit a rock or something.
That bullet to the right of it looks to be one of the BACO's? It looks to be the least deformed of all the shapes.

[Kurt]

No it did not hit a rock. No signs of that happening from the looks of the nose. if it hit a rock it would have sharp edges where it made contact. The bullet on the right is the same bullet cast harder.

[Don McDowell]

Interesting stuff to be sure.

[Kurt]

Don.

That large bottle neck does some strange things!!

It's not unusual for me to shoot 1/50 alloy and it works good with the other calibers I shoot but something about this .44-90 BN with the large boiler room and small neck does some strange things I cant explain.



Kurt

[Old Jim]

Some of those GGs kinda resemble the BACO Money Bullets designs.
I will be trying one of them this year in the 45-70 Shiloh, God willing.

[Kurt]

They are the BACO bullets Jim.
Some were shot with the .45-70 and .45-90

[Dave Roelle]

Thanks for the information Kurt-----------its gotta be a labor of love----time consuming--- but yeilds interesting specimens for study.

I shoot the Baco money bullet cast out of clip on wheel weights with about 2% total tin----they perform quite well and since the WW'S are no cost for me i just gotta use em.

Testing 20/1 against the WW alloy showed ,at least in my shiloh, that the harder WW slugs performed a bit better than 20/1

Sorry i can't show any "snow bank samples" that stuff is kinda scarce around here.

Dave

[Kurt]

Dave,

It's kind of hard to break old habits you been doing for a long time to settle the curiosity and it keeps me from going baddie in the winter
I keep telling myself no more of this but then I turn around and get a different caliber and moulds so I have to make peace in my mind by looking how the bullet reacts with the load and patch.

I also shoot a lot of WW but I cut mine 50/50 with lead and I use this alloy here at home where I only shoot 200 yds. When I go to the gong shoots I use lead with a roll of solder because the bullets will have a little more weight then the WW for the same length, kind of like a blankie thing I guess.

Kurt

[Dave Roelle]

Hey Kurt-----------------i understand the weight thing for sure, out of the WW +2% alloy that 520 grain Baco money bullet weights around 510 grains and i'm betting pretty hard 10 or 11 Brinell-------------i have taken it to 821 yarsd (our buffler is at that range) and held a 3 minute group on a pretty day.

I understand the drive to learn, i'm the same way, get bored without a new thing to understand

Dave

[Shadow 4]

What do you think about the top fourth from the left?
That was shot with a 8% duplex load with 98 grains of 2F KIK and it stretched .167" and almost tore apart.
Talking about a wasp waist bullet!!! bullets usually get shorter then they do longer when fired.

Kurt,

I'm trying to wrap my head around how that bullet got longer?