Anyone use or have a DD style boolit?

[Blammer]

Just curious as to how it works for you.

[26Charlie]

Is what I have, runs about 200 gr. IIRC. The accuracy of this bullet, using the same powder charges as loads with Lyman 311332 or 311335 (near the same weight), is just about the same in several .30-06's. 22 to 24 gr. 4197 (Scot) or 4198 (IMR). Getting accuracy to hold the 10 ring of the SR target, say 2 inches at 100 yd. Hoped for 1-hole groups, but didn't happen in my guns.

[Blammer]

does yours have a small engraving band somewhere forward on the nose of the bullet?

[Buckshot]

does yours have a small engraving band somewhere forward on the nose of the bullet?


..............If it's the DD it would. I recall the writeup Al Miller did in "Handloader" magazine when Walt introduced the design. It worked as well as any other well fitted bore rider that did not have the DD feature.

.................Buckshot

[shooting on a shoestring]

Education please. What's meant by "DD"?

[Bullshop]

We have them in several differant calibers.
BIC/BS

[Razor]

Yeah.
Me too
What's "DD" ??

Razor

[Swamprat1052]

Me three??????

Swamprat

[Idaho Sharpshooter]

DD refers to the profile of a bullet with the ring just after the ogive rounds into the parallel sided portion of the nose. If I may be a bit indelicate, it gave the appearance of a Dog's P---s. That is what Walt told me at his shop...just round the back of the carpet store in Scappoose. Or you can buy the mixed company version of Dimensionally Detailed.

Feel free to delete this after it is read.

Rich

PS: in production rifles it is often an accurizing tool; since it will center the bullet in the original sloppy throats a lot of rifles have. Not so in my 12BVSS 308 Savage. The throat is minimum SAAMI spec on both of mine. No substitute for a swaged boolet that is about .0002" under throat dimensions, but that's why we call it the cast, not swaged, boolet site.

[bobthewelder]

See, in a previous post about 1400+ pounds of lead, the author wanted to know what to cast with it. I said giant boobies, now you guys are talking DD. I say cast it, someone will come!

[Blammer]

at NEI's website they have some pics of the bullet styles of "DD"

[quasi]

Al Miller is one of the clowns that started the "cast bullets won't shoot in Micro-groove barrels" fable.He is full of excess verbiage and B.S. in general.

[26Charlie]

The NEI 308-188-DD-GC bullet. It is a load I made up in July of 2001 for his Ruger #3 .30-40 Krag, 200 gr. bullet as mentioned and 22.0 gr. Scot 4197. Bullet made of range scrap / tire weights, a medium- soft alloy. He said the bullet went right to the crosshairs, deer walked on about 75 yards & collapsed, bullet went through.

Yes, it has a small driving band at the nose to engage in the rifling and center the nose. It is tiny, and you can barely feel it when closing the breech.

Interestingly, temp was about 22 degrees F out, and son said he had the ammo in his pocket with his handwarmer. It wouldn't chamber at first, then he figured out that it had expanded thermally, so he set it out to cool and had no trouble.