New bullet design for Ruger Old Army

[sundog]

DD, are ya suppossin' yer gonna git rich off this? sundog

[StarMetal]

The number on my Lyman mould is 450229

Joe

[Dick Dastardly]

Naah, not rich, just famous

DD-DLoS

[Bodydoc447]

Starmetal,

Thanks. Good looking boolit!

Doc

[James Wisner]

Dick Dastardly.

Your bullet shape is an interestering modifcation of the OLD Lyman Ideal mold # 452484.

For you who do not know that bullet, it is.
A 45 caliber.
230 gr. aprox.
Semi pointed round nose.
A single lube groove, (mid size round shape)
A rebated heel, ( for a gas cup)
Flat base.

Also a LARGE SINGLE LUBE GROOVE is hardly a new idea.
Check out Ideal mouls 457130, and 429239
Not to mention the most famous one of all 429421, thanks to Elmer Kieth.

There are very few new designs regarding bullets.
Just read some of the old Ideal and Lyman reloading manuals.

Jim Wisner
Custom Metasmith

[Dick Dastardly]

Actually, it's a modification of the original LEE conical. The LEE conical had two skimpy lube groves. I simply modified it to one large lube grove. I doubt that it's coincidental that large lube groves have been tried before. For CAS shooting, they just didn't go far enough. The ROA hauls 2.5 grains of my Pearl lube. That's close to five times as much as the nearest competitor.

This bullet was NOT intended for hunting or target shooting. It's a CAS bullet. The fact that it has many other applications just proves the soundness of the design.

If any of those posting, or reading this post would care to see the DD/ROA in action, I'll be shooting Mississippi Fandango at Holmen the second weekend in October. It's a great yearly enjoyable shoot. Bring your safety glasses, earplugs and some western duds. Spectators enter for free. Here's the URL for Fandango http://wwwbunch.homestead.com/home.html

For those interested in items and prices, here's a URL that will help you. Send me an email at rrhody@spwl.net if it gives you any problems please.

http://suburbanstudio.com/Carson%20City/dickd.htm

Enjoy the smoke and may your grin be sooty.

DD-DLoS

[StarMetal]

Guys,

My picture disappeared because I was reaching the limit of my attachments so I deleted files. From now on I'll post pics from my picture posting website and they will remain hopefully forever.

Joe

[prs]

Har. I stumbled onto this old post by chance today. The original boollit of that series was my design, the 45 Colt PRS boolit. Another fellow, following my posts on the SASS site submitted his design for the 44-40 (Mav Dutchman). The machine operator at Lee, Doug Bouchman, was unable to produce Mav's original design, but suggested to Mav that they simply downsize my design; thus the Mav is a downsized clone of the PRS. Also following the posts back then was a shooter with a slick .357 mag concept. His sorbeit is Snakebite. His design allowed use of a common 38SPCL case to arrive at a COL matching factory 357Mag ammo, thus cycling issues in some popular 357 mag rifles were averted. Snakebite incorporated my lube canyon concept into his boolit and Mr. Boochman had no problems cutting those. More recently, some of our members here have made other semi-clones of the PRS to get the black powder non foul-out benefits and greater long range accuracy. Jack Christian and John Boy can tell that part of the story.

Wow, all of that seens so long ago.

prs

[Baja_Traveler]

Love the snakebite for my Rossi 92 - makes an excellent silhouette boolit with both Black and Smokeless.
I've also been using the Big Lube ROA mould, I don't shoot my ROA very much, but it shoots great with that mould once I put a higher front sight on the gun...

[Good Cheer]

Thanks for resurrecting the thread.

[John Allen]

Dick, do you stock the tower of power and will it work with everything? The reason I ask is I have many different cap and balls and would love to get one to make my life easier.