Front Driving Band?

[bruce381]

I do not know for sure but always thought over 45 years casting the PREDOMENATE front band is the "driving band" in that it engraves first and starts rotation thus driving the rest My opinion so whatever. If bore rider it has NO front band. Think Keith popularized the full caliber band as a driving band.

[44MAG#1]

So, since it "drives" the bullet which is a synonym of "steering" and "steer" is a synonym of "drive" it could be called a steering band since it is up front steering the rest of the bullet???

[mehavey]

the [front] drive band [is the one] which is in front of the other drive bands.
All of the bands are drive bands.

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PAX.
perfect.

[44MAG#1]

ed. emphasis added to quote

PAX.
perfect.
ed. emphasis added to quote

PAX.
perfect.

So since steer and drive are synonyms of each other couldn't they be called steering bands?
So could the base/bottom band be call a drive/steering band that also keeps the gas behind the bullet so hence the gas checking band?

[mehavey]

Front, Rear
Front, Middle, Rear
Front, Middle, Middle, Middle, Middle...(middle), Rear -- for Lee tumblers

[44MAG#1]

Front, Rear
Front, Middle, Rear
Front, Middle, Middle, Middle, Middle...(middle), Rear -- for Lee tumblers

So Lee has many bands of driving or steering.
Should be super accurate.

[derek45]

This is fun

[44MAG#1]

This is fun

Where would we be without fun?
It would be a dull world.

[Larry Gibson]

[Bazoo]

Thats a good one. I wonder what Elmer Keith would have thought about Lee TL bullets. He'd either loved them or hated them, depending on how they were presented to him. If you said, I have some bullets that don't quite measure up to your bullet, but they are okay... he'd probably loved them. If you said, I have some bullets that are superior to the keith bullet...he'd have hated them.

[44MAG#1]

Thats a good one. I wonder what Elmer Keith would have thought about Lee TL bullets. He'd either loved them or hated them, depending on how they were presented to him. If you said, I have some bullets that don't quite measure up to your bullet, but they are okay... he'd probably loved them. If you said, I have some bullets that are superior to the keith bullet...he'd have hated them.

We will never know.
Unless someone can go back in a time machine to find out.