Delay yields one more interesting candidate....
We now return you to our regularly-scheduled topic......(*I* am just as guilty as anyone else for topic drift, and I don't worry about it!!!)
While sticking close to home yesterday, I found time to cast and load a few 311284 softpoints. At 1800 fps designed impact velocity, I'm hoping to recover these and see how they performed.
The design is about the best of the easily-available .30 bullets for hunting purposes, I think, ESPECIALLY IF IT WILL EXPAND RELIABLY. Nominal weight runs about 220 grains, although I didn't weigh these ones. I used a dipper which throws around 70 grains of pure lead. The softpoint area extends just about .330" along the full-diameter portion of the nose from the 'point'. These bullets were water-dropped.
Another day or two...(sigh)