The one that almost got away

[Kurt]

Brian.

The more I look at that bullet the more I feel that that bullet was drawn out like pulling wire through a draw die. It was just a matter of a bullet to soft driven to hard with a duplex load that bumped up before it started to move into the throat and skipped over the lands getting stretched. You can see how high the land cuts are on the front of the ogive that it got bumped pretty hard.
I dont see the normal signs of gas cuts that look like the normal pattern of gas cuts. This bullet looks like it just about got pulled apart.
Below are some .308's shot with a .30-30 with a hard Lyman #2 alloy and they stretched longer then the unfired bullet was. The three to the left ended up like they are after reducing the load.


and this is what a normal gas cut pattern will look like. By the way they were shot with smokeless

[Kurt]

Don I found one of your bullet. I dont know what happen to the other one, it might have ended up in the next county??? but they came through in fine shape. It looks like it may have had some WW alloy in it ???
Yours is the second from the left between the 17 and 18. The land cuts are .906 up from the base with nice deep impressions with no fining as tight as it fits the bore.
The other 3 are 17#,18# & 20# lead with with one roll of 95/5 solder.

Kurt

[Don McDowell]

Looks like it kept its profile pretty well. Yes it was wheelweight alloy.

[Kurt]

Don It ended up 1.339" long, What was the unfired length?

[Don McDowell]

Kurt those are 1.35. Looks like that bullet is a keeper.
I may just go ahead and get him to make that one up in iron.

[Kurt]

11 thousands aint bad for the load that pushed that bullet.

[Kurt]

Don.

I found the second bullet that was shot out of the .44-100an it looks just as good shot with 92 grains of 2F KIK. It it actually had less setback then the one shot from the .44-77 with 72 grains. It is 1.344" . Must be the tighter chamber the 100 has and the long 5 degree lead over the standard Shiloh chamber the 77 has.
I wouldn't change a thing with the alloy your using.

Kurt

[Don McDowell]

That's a good bullet Kurt. Last time I had it out on the long range it held 5 in or on the 26 inch bullseye on my 1k steel target. It laid 5 on a cluster about 2 inches at 300 the other day..