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Post by linebaugh on Dec 10, 2015 11:28:27 GMT -5
If anybody on here has experience with shooting boat-tail bullets sabotless either full form or smooth what has been your experience? I'm working through the thinking process of another build and it would sure help if any of you have any experience with this. Heck even if you have no experience but have ideas I would like to hear them. You never know where the next big idea will come from.
I guess specifically I'd like to know how you feel about the way the bullets obturate and what accuracy potential you are seeing.
If you are sizing what are you doing for a push pin in your press? My idea is to simply match the bullet base to the pin by machining a corresponding relief in the pin for the ram.
Thanks for any ideas.
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Post by jims on Dec 10, 2015 12:45:51 GMT -5
I think others have had better success than I but my results both ways with boattails have not been adequate. The flatter bases work much better for me. Now maybe I did not do enough experimenting but my results were not good so I returned to proven and accurate, for me, flat based bullets. I have had good luck in centerfire rifles with boattails but a muzzleloader is another creature.
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Post by Hank on Dec 10, 2015 13:14:24 GMT -5
Creating the push pin to fit the base of the bullet would be the first step. When I was experimenting with my 416 I was full forming solid barns bullets and some CEB bullets with just a flat stem and it would mushroom the base a little before I got them through the die. I was sizing them full hard and using a hydraulic press otherwise I could not get them through the die. Once I mad the push stem to fit the bullet base I had no more mushrooming on the base.
I still got better accuracy from the flat base barns 300 grain over the boat tail 350 grainer...
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Post by Richard on Dec 10, 2015 22:35:33 GMT -5
Herman just shot some 250 Barnes TMZ's ( I think that is the lettering for the boat tail version of the TEZ?) Anyway, they were all over the place and one went thru the target frame side ways.
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Post by Hank on Dec 10, 2015 23:46:54 GMT -5
Herman just shot some 250 Barnes TMZ's ( I think that is the lettering for the boat tail version of the TEZ?) Anyway, they were all over the place and one went thru the target frame side ways. I hate it when that happens.....
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Post by keith on Dec 11, 2015 18:10:49 GMT -5
Yeah, the only thing that is supposed to go through the target end over end is a football through the uprights.
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