I am wondering if there are members that have field experience in long range hunting with classic Rifles like Sharps, Rolling blocks and such rifles, that can make some recommendations on what mold to get?
The dream I have is hunting a small number of game in excess of 500 yards, I know some people can get very negative About how technical and impossible it is to compare hunt to target shooting, Im fine with that, and I get that and understand the complications very well. I have taken a springbuck at 804 yards with a modern varminter in .300 WSM which would have been tought of as impossible in the past. I just returned from a hunt with a .308 Encore Pistol , took a springbuck at 406yds and a Blesbuck at 417yds. I once shot a blesbuck on 164yds with a 44 magnum revolver, So I am a bit of an envelope pusher by nature...
I have a Layman Postell mold on its way, and thought about drilling acentre hole in the nose on the lathe ? I have done that on hardcast .44 boolits, and accuracy was still good, but I never hunted with them, because it was an unnecessary spur of the moment kind of thing.... maybe I am just silly...
Drilling into the softer lead one would tipicaly use in the mentioned rifles, may or may not be a problem?
The RCBS 500gr FP is a boolit that another member mentioned in an earlier post, that did draw my attention, but I would like to add some more weight to increase the SD that I wish will kind of make up for the less than spectacular ballistic coefficient of a FP ...