Designing the 2-diameter paper patch bullet.

[Distant Thunder]

Kurt,

It took me a little bit to figure out what match that score sheet was from! That was from Lodi September 2013. That was the first match with my new Hepburn and the Danielson PP chamber. I hadn't even quite finished building the rifle and didn't have much time for load development before the match. I was shooting 3F Swiss and bullets from the very first mold I made in an attempt to improve on Brent's prolate. That mold was a nose pour and had a flat on the tip. It actually shot pretty well out of my .45-90 but not out of my Hepburn.

By May the following year, 2014, I had cut another mold that fit the Hepburn better and was a base pour mold and worked somewhat better and I finished in 3rd place.

Then in August of 2014 I decided to go back to the bullet that had won 2 matches for me in my .45-90. The bore of my Hepburn is bigger than my Shiloh .45-90 so I opened up the mold to fit my Hepburn. It was only .001" bigger in diameter but what a difference it made. That August match, only the 4th match with my Hepburn, I finished in 1st place. That is the design that I cut for Matt here in this thread. Once I went back to that design and had it sized to fit my Hepburn I don't believe I ever finish lower than 5th place and more often than not somewhere in the top 3. That bullet shoots the best of any PPB I've tried. I have no idea how it will shoot in other rifles but time will tell.