Designing the 2-diameter paper patch bullet.

[Distant Thunder]

I actually am getting to a point where I think some of our efforts are not only NOT improving on what the ODG did, but rather are moving in a direction that is worse and some are much worse than what the ODG used.

We have an obstacle to overcome that the ODG did have at all, we have 120 years of smokeless high power developments that don't necessarily work at black powder velocities. As hard as it is to learn what works best for us it is very hard to unlearn what we've used for most of our lives and worked with smokeless powder and jacketed bullets at high velocity (rpm). There was even a time not that many years back when everyone was rushing out and having boattailed bullet molds made for BPCR! You don't see much of that anymore. Now I see a tendency toward very long slender and even pointed noses, often with total disregard for length and twist rate. The resulting marginally stable bullets can shoot very well in mild conditions only to come completely unglued when battling a nasty quartering head and or tail wind. Yes, a high BC bullet design is good and everybody wants it, but is it really the best design? I am not convinced.