Originally Posted by
HEAD0001
Just make sure you get the .452 sabot. They make both a .452 and a .458. that weight should be about perfect. You can easily duplicate a 45-70 load with that bullet. I would shoot for about 1600 fps for good flight characteristics as well as good down range(300 yard) ooommmppphhh.
How did you choose your design?? And it looks like a boat tail design?? Why?? Certainly that is not for a GC??
Lots of interest here in that bullet. I also have a long range hunter.
I am also thinking about having a mold made. But I am wanting to make the bullet as a conical and go for the full 50 caliber diameter. And I will be aiming for a weight of about 400-410 grains. The one I shoot now weighs 525 grains. I am thinking about going with 4 grooves to lower the weight.
Your LRH should handle that very well. Tom.
The design is a bevel base. I guess it would offer some boat tail type advantages once it sheds the sabot. Suppose to fit the bottom of the sabots better, as I understand the sabots are not perfectly flat. I have been shooting a Lee 454 Casul mold that was GC'd and it fit my sabots fine.
It is a mold made by BRP Molds. He also has a 300 grain one. I went 400 grain so the hollow point version would still have some good weight.