I personally like the LEE R.E.A.L. conicals. My .54 caliber Renegade which shot this group off shooting sticks at 30 yard with 80 grains of powder has done much better off the bench rest. In fact the one time shooting, I thought I missed the whole target with the second shot until I really looked close and saw the ragged edge on the other side of the original shot.

I shoot the 300 & 380's out of the .54 caliber. 80 grains of powder seems to work real good. Actually one afternoon with friends, I was loading 70 grains and letting them shoot. Due to their size I did not want any of them hurt by recoil. We were shooting eggs off the top of a soda pop can at 30 yards from the sticks. The conicals will hold in there even up to 90 grains, but anything over 100 grains and you start to spread the group out a little. I was shooting some 320 REAL's out of my in-lines and they shot a ragged hole at 50 yards. That was with a scoped T/C Black Diamond XR with I think it was 100 grains of Pyrodex RS off the sticks.

Friends and I have been hunting for years with the 300 grain REAL's because we wanted more range and a little more weight then the 230 grain .54 caliber round balls. They stop a deer in their tracks, and because of the low BHN I get good expansion if I hit any bone at all.

I started molding the 380's just last year. I have not let my friends shoot any of my 380 grain REAL's because I really do not want to go into mass production to fill their hunting supplies, which is what would happen, while it is so cold here. Yet I am doomed to go out into the shop and make some more because I have shot my supply of them up. When the new molds get here, I will spend all day casting conicals and roundballs and make plenty for everyone.