Designing the 2-diameter paper patch bullet.

[Kurt]

Jim.

I use a 1.460" Paul Jones money bullet in a 1/18 ROT and it has worked fine for me in the .45-90 and it has been keeping me in the top 20 to 30 at the Quigley and it has kept me in the awards at the MT 1000.

I shot silhouettes at Alma Saturday and Sunday in the unclassified with irons but I was disappointed with my final ending with a 21 using the 1.460" long bullet in my .45-70. Saturday the conditions I thought were very dood looking down range before the match, sun was out temp I needed an extra sweat shirt to keep me from shivering but I thought this is a good time to get a new classification, but was I wrong when the match started you know what the conditions can do on that range That bullet gave me a bunch of vertical and I was not alone with this problem the way every body's score was at the end of the day. I ended up with a disappointing 16. But you know what the contrast between the berms and targets are like when everything is mud from all the rain that is swelling all the cricket around that lake.
Sunday Steve loaned me a different lolly pop insert with a thicker aperture and things worked better with the same rifle and load.
But I will have to come to terms that shooting silhouette I just have to get used to using a scope, on that range anyway.
But The PJ MB at 1.460 shoots well out to the 1K in my .45-90 but I can't say what it would do in the .45-70. I just don't shoot that caliber enough to know what it will do at long range.

I will be using that bullet at Lodi this weekend with the new .45-90 CPA. I'm a little disappointed that they will only let you get a sight setting during the 10 minutes prier for going for record at the 1K and unknown for 900 and 800 and only three sighters before going for record with unknown settings for those ranges. But if I see dirt on the first shot I should cut paper with the next two before record.
See you in a couple days..........Kurt