What do you guys think? I’ve got a box of 500 perfectly good 300 gr .454 lubed, lead truncated nose, hard cast bullets and am thinking that I might try to drill out the bases so I can use these drilled out bullets in my old .455 martial Smith, Colts and Webley revolvers chambered in .45acp, .45lc and .455 calibers. I’m using these for my cas/wasa matches, targets are close and big but 300 gr is just too much lead. Naturally I will eventually cast the scrap into something else. If I can remove 50-70 gr they would be fine. I would use my HF mini mill to drill a hole in a piece of hardwood 29/64 = .4531 in my table vice then experiment with other drills to drill out the hollow base, weighing each as I drill. I’m thinking that I would cut the board so it could compress slightly to hold the bullet in the hole. I don’t want it to slip but I don’t want to change the diameter. My current load of 4.0 gr of Bullseye and a 200-250 gr .454 rnfp seem to work fine for my solid base bullets but I’m all out of .454’s except the 300s. Of course I could always melt them and recast them but why when they’re ready to go except being too heavy.