Originally Posted by
Dixie Slugs
Well Friends, The Dixie Crowd is back and we are planning to crank up production in the first week of Dec.!
Looking at the reults of our hunts on Florida Coastal Islands, I am more convienced (sp?) than ever that the most important factor in cast bullt design is the size of the meplat....no mater what the velocity and weight is!
We also shot a prototype extreme meplat .452" bullet weighing about 210/230 grs at a muzzle velocity in the high 900's muzle velocity in the revolvers.. There was a great deal of tissue damage and complete penetration within 75 yards on medium size hogs.
The real interesting firearm was the Uberti Remington 1858 carbine with a R&D conversion cylinder in 45 Long Colt using the 452" - 200 gr Laser Cast bullets with 10.5grs of Herco (Ken Water's load). Everyone wanted to play with that litle gun! That gun also performed extra well with the prototype Extreme Meplat bullet!
Another outstanding game load was the discontinued Dixie Tornado out of a Hasting 12 ga - 20" rifled barrel (scoped) on a Remington 870. The hog was hit about 100 yards on the tidal marsh - spun around - dropped dead. Here again that cast bullet in the older BPI sabot has a large meplat.
I have yet to see any loss of acuracy with these extreme meplat bullets, but there we no shots taken that were more than 100 yards.
I want to thank all the good folks/customers that supported Dixie in the past. We will continue to sell direct to the hunter!......James