Post by smokeeter on Jan 9, 2009 19:51:31 GMT -5
As some of you already know I like to dabble with bullets. I like bullets to have a good Ballistic Coefficient. That is to enable me to have a superior bullet for greater distances.
Friends and family believe I am cursed with this , but who cares it's a side effect I have gotten since my first case of Savageitus.
I thought I had the perfect bullet for my application , and I did with the modified .458 Remington's but that proved to be a challenge when I obtained my .45 cal smokeless Remington, the .458 bullets couldn't efficiently be down sized to the .450 dia my barrel required. so off we go again.
I thought I had solved my problem with reforming some of the .45 cal bullets that were available into a spire point but after this years moose hunt I felt that the modified nosler bullets did not expand the way they were initially designed to. Mind you my reformed bullets looked fantastic and shot reasonably well but the terminal effect was lacking. I think that my closing of the hollow point and reshaping the ogive of the bullet was too small to allow the partitian to do its job, and they acted like a FMJ.
Here is a pic of the before and after bullets that I recovered from one of the bull moose I harvested this past season.
I had performed this mod with some custom dies and added no external lead to form the nose, it just pushes the existing lead from the front end of the bullet out the hollow point and forces into a point.
I had played with the adding of a #4 lead buckshot to the hollow point and reformed it into a point but that wasn't satisfactory until now with yet another new set of nose punch dies, this adds 21 grains to the stock 260 grain Nosler making a 281 grain bullet.
Here's a pic of the latest prototype it's the bullet on the right the one on the left is the reform without the buckshot.
I feel that the front opening is still large enough to be forced back and open to the full potential of the partitian.
These are premium bullets and they are not cheap , for dangerous or really big game I wanted a premium bullet that still performed as expected.
Buddy Al did a cut away of some bullets. and there is a pic below. From left to right they are:
.40 cal 200 gr. SST , .45 cal 300 gr. Bonded SW ,.45 cal 240 gr. XTP mag., .45 cal 260 XTP mag. modified. .45 cal 260 gr. Nosler 1st. mod.
The jackets on these are thick, especially the noslers. I have successfully modified the standard XTP's in both 250 and 300 gr. and I feel that the modified 300 gr. XTP is the ideal bullet for deer sized game with my sabotless 45, it's just that I want something a little more for the really big boys.
Friends and family believe I am cursed with this , but who cares it's a side effect I have gotten since my first case of Savageitus.
I thought I had the perfect bullet for my application , and I did with the modified .458 Remington's but that proved to be a challenge when I obtained my .45 cal smokeless Remington, the .458 bullets couldn't efficiently be down sized to the .450 dia my barrel required. so off we go again.
I thought I had solved my problem with reforming some of the .45 cal bullets that were available into a spire point but after this years moose hunt I felt that the modified nosler bullets did not expand the way they were initially designed to. Mind you my reformed bullets looked fantastic and shot reasonably well but the terminal effect was lacking. I think that my closing of the hollow point and reshaping the ogive of the bullet was too small to allow the partitian to do its job, and they acted like a FMJ.
Here is a pic of the before and after bullets that I recovered from one of the bull moose I harvested this past season.
I had performed this mod with some custom dies and added no external lead to form the nose, it just pushes the existing lead from the front end of the bullet out the hollow point and forces into a point.
I had played with the adding of a #4 lead buckshot to the hollow point and reformed it into a point but that wasn't satisfactory until now with yet another new set of nose punch dies, this adds 21 grains to the stock 260 grain Nosler making a 281 grain bullet.
Here's a pic of the latest prototype it's the bullet on the right the one on the left is the reform without the buckshot.
I feel that the front opening is still large enough to be forced back and open to the full potential of the partitian.
These are premium bullets and they are not cheap , for dangerous or really big game I wanted a premium bullet that still performed as expected.
Buddy Al did a cut away of some bullets. and there is a pic below. From left to right they are:
.40 cal 200 gr. SST , .45 cal 300 gr. Bonded SW ,.45 cal 240 gr. XTP mag., .45 cal 260 XTP mag. modified. .45 cal 260 gr. Nosler 1st. mod.
The jackets on these are thick, especially the noslers. I have successfully modified the standard XTP's in both 250 and 300 gr. and I feel that the modified 300 gr. XTP is the ideal bullet for deer sized game with my sabotless 45, it's just that I want something a little more for the really big boys.
