RE: Interesting Alternative
My experience was the same with the 270 gr. .429 Gold Dot. Shot OK - nothing to write home about. Too bad, because this bullet has some excellent expansion characteristics. The entire line of Gold Dot bullets has the copper electroplated over the lead core and, like the new Fusion bullets that Federal has out this year, they are essentially a one piece slug that can't have a core/jacket separation.
This particular Gold Dot bulletis specifically designed to perform athigher velocities than the regular pistol-type Gold Dots. I'd imagine you could push it to maybe 1800 fps out ofthe .454 Casull. I'm kind of excited to try them on something . . . . we'll see what comes up the next few months. I wish I had a digital photo of that big expanded slug. It was impressive.