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    Looking for interest in mold for Remington .44 mold

    http://noebulletmolds.com/smf/index....41.0;topicseen

    If you are interested in getting a mold made for the Remington .44 revolver, a conical heeled bullet, head on over to Noe and express your interest. They need 10 people to pull the trigger.

    Steve

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    In the late 1990s, Preston Hewitt and I played with a conical bullet from a Hensley and Gibbs mould in our Tom Ball built .44 Remington revolvers. At 25 yards, almost anything will work, but we were looking for better results at 50 yards. Somewhat to our surprise we got better results from round balls. Later, I played with a commercially cast 180 grain conical that had worked well in "cowboy action" style loads in a conversion cyclinder in one of my guns (I shot several mid-90 scores with it at 50 yards). That bullet also didn't work well when stuffed into a percussion cylinder. YMMV.

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    Yup, my experience has been that round ball is more accurate than conicals in modern reproductions. I have heard that reproduction twist rates are optimized for round ball. I did read that some guy named Kaido has come up with a conical bullet that is more accurate in modern BP revolvers than round balls. Read about it in Guns of the Old West magazine.

    This kind of bullet would be useful for people wanting to create historically accurate revolver cartridges.

    Steve

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    My experience, accuracy with long bullets in percussion revolvers is mostly a matter of alignment.
    Round ball is easier to make accurate because the tail end is not tipped when it exits the muzzle.

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