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Offline hiram

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pointed vs flatnose
« on: May 21, 2008, 04:27:19 PM »
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I've been casting for a while and I read all sorts of info.  It appears that the trend for cast bullets are large meplats.  They are very impressive looking.  It seems to offer accuracy and knockdown power.  I thought the pointed style bullet would out-shoot the flat nose in the accuracy area, but it doesn't appear to be that way.  The FN is seems to becoming more popular.  Am I misunderstanding something and is the flat nose bullet the more accurate bullet bullet, in general, than the pointed bullet?  The pointed bullet would shoot flatter, and lose velocity slower.  I currently shoot a Rem RB with BP.  I use the lee 5003r.  What good FN bullet is there in the 480 gr range??

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Re: pointed vs flatnose
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2008, 08:32:24 PM »
  As a general rule, given equal bearing surfaces, or body, pointed bullets are more accurate than flatnosed, but not a lot more accurate, and they don't kill much better than a darning needle.  Also, accuracy is determined more by  precision of the mold, how well the bullet fits the gun of interest and bullet design.   Bullet design in the bearing area  is very very important to accuracy, which is way the LBT flatnose bullets have cut a pretty  big swath since I developed them.  Also, I bend over backwards to train every customer on how to make bullets from my molds give optimum performance.  No other mold maker seems to care as long as the customer doesn't complain, and very few do if they can get the bullets into their gun.  You see, if bullets slip into the gun easily, like jacketed bullets do, the mold customer just thinks bad performance is his ignorance about cast, so says nothing to the mold maker about bad performance.  I started LBT because I couldn't make cast bullets from any of the manufactures work, and, except for some of them adding a few bullets that look similar to LBT designs, nothing has changed in their offerings in the 28 years since LBT has existed.

  Maybe what I'm trying to say here is, if you buy a flatnose bullet mold but it isn't an exact copy of an LBT design, or if the bullets aren't precision, or if they don't fit your gun with precision, then flatnose won't be more accurate than pointed, or equal.
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Re: pointed vs flatnose
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2008, 03:27:43 PM »
Thank you.