535 paul jones money bullet

[bignut]

I have a chance to buy a Paul Jones 535 grain money bullet mold. Can anyone tell me if this will work well with a browning bpcr chamber? The first 2 lead bands are tapered from .452 on up to .459 on the base. I have read that these chambers like the boolit to be seated in the rifling, and thought this may work. Anyone have any thoughts or experience with this?

[Bent Ramrod]

You might do better posting this question in the black powder cartridge or paper patching section.

My limited experience with the PJ Money boolit gave somewhat larger groups than the PJ Creedmoor at 500-600 yards. On the other hand, I cast both boolits of the same pretty soft (BHN ~8) alloy. It may be that the Money boolit needs a harder alloy since the nose diameter is smaller than that of the Creedmoor. The rifles I was trying it in were Shiloh and Pedersoli 74 Sharps replicas.

Most of the big guns in long range BP shooting swear by the Money boolit. Such specialty designs likely need to be combined with additional nuances in casting and loading in order to get the increases in accuracy their proponents claim. I merely substituted the Money boolit with the same alloy and loading rather than starting from scratch in checking alloy hardness and varying loadings. I need to get back to experimenting with it, but there are other things taking up my time right now.

[Victor N TN]

[FONT=times new roman][SIZE=5] Never mind. I think I finally got it.

[bignut]

Thank you for the heads up Bent Ramrod. Turns out what I have is the Doc Lay money bullet for the Shiloh 1874 chamber according to others here. May as well try it anyway since I bought it.

[Bent Ramrod]

No problem. You might also search the Shiloh Sharps forum. There's a lot of Money Bullet discussion there.

Paul Jones is retired now. One of his moulds is money in the bank; you should be able to get your investment back and more, even if the boolit doesn't suit you.