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You'll hear "Fit Is King" a lot on this forum with regards to getting the diameter sized right for the barrel and having a bullet that interfaces well with the chamber throat and rifling leade.

I...

Take a look at the Accurate Molds 34-170M. Appears to be about exactly what you're looking for.

DING! DING! DING!

25-1 (9BHN), 20-1 (10BHN), 16-1 (11BHN), and 10-1 (12 BHN) span the range between where a solid, flat-nosed bullet will almost definitely deform on impact to where there's a fair...

On the one hand, as obvious as it's been that Sig has someone performing "oral arguments" for key members of Pentagon staff, this seems potentially as honest as "troops taking part in the trial...

Virtually everything on the Accurate website started as someone's custom order.

Remember that revolvers are going to lock in your nose location at the crimp groove, and the only way to practically...

Nope. I read (ok. . .ATTEMPTED to read) a couple of the threads covering the process of working copper into casting alloy. Over my head - or at least my patience level - but really seems like...

In theory, you could get up to and maintain operating temperature using just two holes, but (a) not the way the blocks are designed to run, and (b), you're going to get overflow from one hole to the...

As one who has tried two designs in one mold - DON'T! You're going to decide on one and against the other and then you just end up having to cull 50% of your casts before you even start to cull for...

Had the opportunity to take a hard look at this gun, the Ruger, a CZ 550, and a Brazilian 08/34 (essentially a K98) and run the same load through them. Only the Ruger eats them flawlessly, but the...

I've assisted in quite a few industry demo gelatin shoots and made a couple of duty ammo recommendations based on some of the deep dives I've had to do in studying the matter. The FBI spec for...

This is really pretty easy: The old Lyman 311299 / 314299 / 316299 are the same bullet scaled progressively larger in not only shank/groove diameter, but also in bore-ride section to accommodate the...

Seated it shorter to the point the front driving band was almost gone - didn't help. Comparative analysis of other controlled feed .30-06's tomorrow.

Well. . .#1 is that the gun has to work. Not a major concern in a revolver or Contender, but if it has to double-duty in a gun where it must transit up a ramp, you may want to be a little more...

That, and the .303 British example (& Eduard Rubin's experiments that led to it) are possibly something of a guide. I guess we'd have to lay some ground rules as to determining a "practical"...

In this case, it's a pre-64 Model 70 .30-06 but same family.

No issues at all running ball '06 or other spitzers, but the Accurate 31-194D round (ish) nose is giving me some problems.

The load...

Val Kilmer's Lee-Speed from The Ghost & the Darkness is at the top of my "I WANT!" movie gun list.

I can forgive them fabricating Michael Douglas' character as it allowed them to verbalize the...

Typical 6:00 case head blow-outs will direct their force into the magazine. That's probably the cause of the wonky orientation of the following cartridge, which likely pushed on the blown case...

Seems a bit like using a .454 Casull to hunt chipmunks to me. The body of a dove is basically a golf ball. There's going to come a point in your patterning with #6 shot where there are a lot of...

The Leupold 3-9 EFR allows you to dial the parallax out at shorter rimfire ranges if you're into a semi-precision field rifle. . .

I got a lot of good mileage out of a Weaver RV7 2-7x28 for...

I measured bore slugs from perhaps half a dozen 9mm's before concluding .357" is where you want your bullets to be. All but one of them were .356" on groove and the outlier was a Springfield 1911 at...

A pound-cast of your chamber and throat will tell you what you need for both brass length and bullet diameter.

A marked cleaning rod and a tight patch will tell you your rate of twist and what...

The fix indeed pretty much had to be in.

They would have had to pay Remington more money for rolling blocks, and the original intent was to assemble trapdoors out of leftover muzzle-loading...

Welcome! Sounds like you're well on your way.

You might want to revisit your hardness testing methods and confirm the properties of what you're casting your bullets out of. If you indeed are...

I've heat cycled and not heat cycled new molds. It certainly doesn't hurt anything, but I can't say I've seen any difference that enables me to say that it helps. I spray them off with carb and...

A 215 grain HBWC out of a .44 Special is basically cloning the 220 grain .455 Webley MKIV bullet, which is more or less what we've come to think of as an ogival wadcutter. That slug sticks out of...