Just another week at the range…………….

Hay Richard Jerry and I both ordered some nosler 458 300gr bullets form shooters pro shop. Jerry took one to work and cut it in half and they have tapered jacket that gets really thick toward the bottom of the bullet. We are thinking they might make a fine hunting bullet. He has sized up a bunch of them and is headed to the range this morning. Maybe he will post a report later.

So here are the results..........I got this idea from Elkman (Carl). He was playing with the 300 SST so I thought I would give it a try on the TEZ. I used the 250 gr. as I treasure the 290's a little more and figured if I was wasting a bullet, I might as well do it to the 250. When you pull the tip, it leave a hole almost .250" in diameter and about .3" deep. I ran a 1/4" drill bit in and it barely removed a crul of copper. The shank of the tip was turned to .254" with two canalures and the tip was somewhat started. I filled the hole in the bullet partially with Marine-Tex and forced the tip in, in the vise.........slowly as it squeezed out the excess epoxy........let set over night and then turned it down to match the contour of the bullet. This increases the weight to .257 gr. The sides of the bullet have approx. 1/2" of bearing surface. The overall length of this bullet is 1.2"
Kyle...............NO I am not going to be making these.........Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to labor intensive. I had some free time and Elkman gave me the idea and I just did it? Yes, only ONE. What I am going to do next week is shoot a group at 200 with the unaltered 250 TEZ amd then shoot this one to get an idea of how well the improvement does........elevation wise.
I think the reason these Barnes do as well as they do is because of the increased bearing surface. The 290 has .6" of bearing surface.

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Richard, that's a good looking bullet in any case.

Chad..........as long as the bullet itself is running true in the lathe, when you turn the point, it will run as true as the bullet itself. If your lathe is not holding the bullet in line, than when you cut the tip, it will be just as crooked as the bullet.
Put it this way, if there were no good bullets available and I was doing some high dollar hunt, yes, I would make up enough to complete the hunt. But since we have the likes of Kyle's bullets, I will stick with just pulling the trigger save for an occasional experiment

Man looks Awesome Richard!!! I wish I had about 50 of those come November.

Looks good Richard...