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Offline fowler

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260gr .454 LFNPB
« on: November 15, 2009, 05:52:49 AM »
Veral,

I have a pile of your molds especially for the 45 colt in heavier weights, they all shoot very well in my guns. I have been running various Keith styled bullets for the 255gr weight and have never gotten the consistency of your LFN bullets that I shoot in heavier weights. I got a 260gr LFN mold from you last year for my 44sp and the results have been spectacular, I am hoping to replicate it for my 45 colts now.

The thought I have is a 255gr LFNPB with 2 crimp grooves, one short enough for a FA97 cylinder and one longer for Ruger cylinders. I am going to do it in a 4 hole mold and just shoot the snot out of the bullet for years to come for lighter target, plinking, and hunting for years to come.

My concern is, is there enough bearing surface left for 2 crimp grooves and one or two grease grooves? I don't see why it wouldn't work but then I just am not sure in a .454 mold...

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Re: 260gr .454 LFNPB
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2009, 07:16:18 PM »
  There isn't enough room for two crimps and lubrication on a 260 gr 45 bullet.  Best to have the different crimps put into different cavites. Like two short and two long.  Also to gain optimum accuracy I would put a relitively small lube groove in, since you don't intend it for heavy loads.

  In the same vein, a customer sent me a photo this week of his first revolver cast bullet deer kill.  An instant kill at 75 yards on a nice forkhorn, or four point by eastern count.  He used a 44 mag Redhawk with 2X Leupold scope, with my 260 gr PLAIN BASE bullet, but didn't name the nose profile, loaded with 24 gr H110 and lubed with LBT blue soft lube.  Says accuracy  is sub 2 1/2 inch at 100 yards, and has never had a trace of leading after 800 rounds of full house loads.    I'm going to guess he was using the WFN, but will change that guess and the group size if he tells me different.  Either the LFN or WFN would kill about the same with his full load velocity, which is probably pushing 1500 fps.  (He didn't give a chrono speed.)
Veral Smith

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Re: 260gr .454 LFNPB
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2009, 12:56:29 PM »
I am not the fellow you mention, but I LOVE the 260 grain .452 mold you made for me. It is a bevel base bullet and using 45 colt brass in my .454 Super Redhawk, I can shoot 4 inch groups at 100 yards with a 2x scope. It is my favorite all around bullet. Zeroed at 50 yards, it drops about 8 inches at the hundred yard mark. Just above where the reticle goes from the fat part to the thin part.

I also use 24 grains of H110, which is one of John Linebaugh's preferred loads for the .45 colt.

Haven't had a chance to try it on a deer yet. This year's harvest occurred at about 130-150 yards. A little farther out than my comfort zone with a revolver, so I used my Savage muzzleloader.

Tom
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