Let's talk TRANSONIC!

[bobw]

Don, at Denver SCI show a few years back I bought an original 44-2 5/8" round 520 gr ppb it was loaded with 105 gr of Fg a card wad a grease cookie and 2 cards over the cookie under the bullet. It was the 44 2 5/8" Creedmoor load from Sharps/UMC. Like the Special long range 550 gr 45 ppb for the 2.6 and 2.4" loads it had the deep cup base. Numerous Sharps authorities from the those years maintained that the deep cup base with a twisted up pigtail in it caused sometimes erratic flight and/or "dirt diggers". Others said that occaisionally they would find a ppb downrange that had the tail of the patch pushed up into that deep cup and stuck there. If one subtracts off the depth of the deep cup base from the overall length they were pretty short compared to what a lot of guys are using today. I think that it explains how they got by with less twist than is used today coupled with the blunter ogives on the 44's. So what I'm saying is if a guy buys a new 44 today he needs to use yester year bullet designs or have them put in a tighter twist for today's bullet designs that are cutting edge ogives and advances. Kurt has found this out the hard way.
Kurt , I believe that like the sun coming up in the east and going down in the west a guy who has buffalo meat in his freezer needs to ration it burger wise so in the winter with the occasion of crappy weather he can make a pot of buffalo chili and let it snow and be damned .bobw