Possible Keith Style for 10mm?

[harley45]

Any Comments on this before I order it to play with?
Thanks
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[williamwaco]

What is the black line ahead of the front driving band?

[harley45]

I think that just a line the program puts in to show where the nose begins to taper

[Glen]

Works just fine. I had Mountain Molds make me a 200 grain .40 caliber Keith several years ago for my .401 Herters Powermag and it's a good bullet. I've shot a few in 10mm as well, but haven't done any serious load development with it yet in 10mm.

http://www.lasc.us/Fryxellmountainmolds.htm

[shotman]

you may have a feed problem in an auto . Colt 45s tend to not feed the keith I used. It may work ok in a 40cal the
I use a lee tl401 and it feeds good its almost a keith

[williamwaco]

I would have bet the farm it would not feed in an auto but there has been a lot of discussion about using them in the 9mm and they seem to feed OK.

If it works - use it.

[sqlbullet]

I load a Lee 175 grain SWC for my 10mm and it works fine, as long as I don't exceed 1.250" COAL. At that point they just plain stop working.

I love the design Harley. In fact, I would love to trade you some lead for 100 or so boolits unsized that I can try in my gun.

Let me know what you decide on that mold.

[harley45]

Glen, Funny you should chime in here, I actually had a mold cut and Hollowpointed just like the one you describe. However I forgot to pay attention to the length and it is way to long for my autos. would work fine in a smith 610 I think. This one is the same length as a Hornady 200 gr xtp so should work just fine. The gun is a custom Wilson Combat that so far has fed everything so I'm hopeful. when I get it sqlbullet I will send you some.

[Char-Gar]

May work just fine, but tis not a Keith bullet. Keith designed his bullets with three driving bands of equal width and a single lube groove. Seems like these days any semi-wadcutter bullet is called a Keith, but that is far from accurate.

[geargnasher]

Umm, what about an H&G #68 scaled down to .401" and maybe with either a plain (not bevel) base or gas check base?

Gear

[MtGun44]

Char-gar beat me to it.

The drawing is not a Keith design boolit. Elmer had a set of very specific, non-negotiable
requirements and got VERY cranky if anyone changed ANY of his design features.

Elmer required a curved nose profile, large meplat, three equal driving bands and a wide,
flat bottomed lube groove and deep, angled crimp groove. Any thing else is just another
SWC.

Pendantic PITA? Yep. But they really WORK.

PS This is NOT a slam on the design, it will probably work just fine, just sort of "historic
terminology".

Bill

[Glen]

harley45, would you be interested in selling that HP mould?

[harley45]

Glenn I would be very interested in selling it since it's to long for me t use, PM me and we can discuss

[Glen]

PM sent.