Modern-Bond E-429-690

[jrmartin1964]

This one is identified in the Modern-Bond catalogs as "the Resser bullet", a 240-grain semi-wadcutter.
Anyone have any idea as to who "Resser" may have been?

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[Pressman]

No, but I can check my sources. It looks a lot like the Lyman bullet that Elmer Keith promoted.
Ken

[jrmartin1964]

Only information I could find was this article by Glen E. Fryxell:

http://www.handloads.com/articles/default.asp?id=27, which I quote here...

Modern-Bond was also producing moulds for .44 SWCs during the 1930's and '40s. Their catalog included the D-429 (D-429770, the 230 grain "Ness" bullet) and E-429 (E-429690, the 240 grain "Resser" bullet), both of which captured the design features we think of as SWC today. The Ness bullet had a thick base band, a square-cut grease groove (a true 90 degree cut), a beveled crimp groove, and a skinny little forward driving band, leading into a long straight ogive and a moderate sized meplat. The Resser bullet had a radiused ogive, similar to the Keith SWC, but had a narrow forward driving band and two different sized square-cut grease grooves. These moulds are not commonly encountered today.

Beyond that, my resources run dry.

[too many things]

if i remember from old shooters book keith used that to do the 44 mag he just made it longer and GC it
Keith was like geo herter if he didn't do it it wasn't usable

[Landy88]

Can you hear it, too?

That fine old mold is whispering to us:

"You don't need Elmer's fancy and costly gas check. Put my fine bullets on top of Skeeter's load and we can do all that wants doing."

[jrmartin1964]

"I can see no useful purpose for gas checks in revolvers." Thus sayeth EK in "Gun Notes, Volume II". What EK-designed gas-check, and from what mould producer, is being referred to?

The only other "named" design in M-B catalogs I have found was for what was called the "Ness" Bullet, a truncated-cone-nose SWC design that was favored by Frank C. Ness, also available in .44 (D-429-770) and .38 (I-358-755), as well as in .45 (E-452-670).

This leads me to believe that EK had nothing whatsoever to do with the design of my mold. Modern-Bond catalogs lists quite clearly reference my mould as the "Resser" Bullet. There was a similar style (H-358-675) made for .38 Special, also designated as the "Resser" Bullet. No mention or reference to EK, anywhere, in any of the M-B catalogs available to me.

My search for who "Resser" may have been continues...