LFN for a .58 Zouave?

[R J Talley]

So here is my question Veral. Is it possible for you to make a LFN minne bullet that looks and functions much like a TC Maxiball except that the nose would have a large flat meplat?  This would have to be in .579 and have a flat base with a very deep set of wide grooves just like the Maxiball as opposed to the hollow based minnie.  The idea being that it's close enough to bore dimentions to "slug Up' sufficiently unpon ignition but still small enough to load easily from the muzlzle of my Zouave. Lee makes a target minnie with a wide flat meplat but it has a hallow base. That limits charges to about 60 grains of 2f in order to prevent the skirt from blowing and accuracy going all over the map.  The Maxi can be loaded with much heavier loads without a problem. But, its nose design is not ideal. If it could be lengthened slightly and a flat meplat added it would be accurate, hard hitting and capable of being driven by a heavy charge.

Wha do you think?

[Veral]

  I sure can, but depth of the large grease groove is much more limited than if the mold were cut with a cherry.  Which won't make a practical difference in performance.

I have a muzzleloader bullet which hasn't been cataloged for some time, in which I put a small bulge in the forward driving band which fillls the grooves of the rifle to provide a tight grip so it doesn't move off the powder if the gun if jarred, to seal powder gasses upon initial ignition, and provide better centering in the bore than a slip fit bullet..  It drops freely into the barrel up to this band, perfectly centered by the bore diameter band just behind it and at the heel.  A bump with a starter engraves the rifling then it is rammed home with the long rod.

  But I can make them for the conventional type fit also.  It's your choice.  In either case, only the back of the bullet bumps up powder pressure, and the degree of upset, or obturation, must be controled by balanceing your powder charge to suit bullet hardness, a standard procedure with black powder loads.