Designing the 2-diameter paper patch bullet.

[Don McDowell]

Sam I still use the same tank buster design. The original one I have from Old West doesn't see much time now as the blocks got soft and it became hard to cast one with out a seam. So I gave Brooks one of the bullets and asked him to duplicate it in his nose pour adjustable. Then had him do another one in 45 with his original postel nose. The 40 I'm using is again from Brooks. I had him to make that one a base pour, 400 on the base 395 at the base of the nose , again the original postel nose 1.29 long.
The 44/aka tank buster is .435 on the base, .432 at the base of the nose. Most of the ones I cast for the 2 1/4 bn are 1.29 long and weigh 460 gr.
Giving hard consideration to having him cut another 44 base pour using the same diameters only taking the length to 1.35 with the original postel nose. Should work like a champ in the 44-90 st. Altho I think if I had him cut it at 1.3 it should still fly in the 44-77 out to 800 , maybe 1000 and still work well in the 44-90 st. Also thinking that the 1.3 length might be a good one to have a 44-70 st built..