Recovered 2-diameter PPB.

[Distant Thunder]

Kurt,

It's funny how you and I have arrived at the same conclusion on that bullet profile! And I think the ODG would approve!

Over the past 3 years of experimenting with the lower BC designs of the original bullets I have found this original Sharps design to be the most accurate PPB I have worked with. Also, as you said, it has been very easy to get excellent accuracy with that design. I have been telling other shooters who ask me about shooting PPB to start with this style of bullet and learn the other details of paper patching and then try any of the sleek nosed missiles that they want to afterwards. And if they are working with a grease groove chamber to give the 2-D PPB some thought.

I sent a drawing to KAL T & D of a .44 caliber bullet with the same nose shape as my .40-65 bullet and Rick is ready to cut the mold. I am just holding back until I have my rifle back from Shiloh before giving him the go ahead. It will be a straight sided bullet, but I have brass that has heavy enough necks that it won't need sizing to fit. While perhaps not the best in a GG chamber, a 2-D bullet would probably be better, I do believe that with the Shiloh standard chamber will work out well. My straight sided PPB bullets shoot very well in my Shiloh .45-90 with the same chamber design as my .44-77 will have. I will probably make a 2-D mold based on the same nose design and test that as well. It will be interesting to see if there is any difference.

I also plan to make or have made a 2-D .45 caliber bullet mold based on this design and then go back and revisit my old C. Sharps .45-70, the only rifle I have had that refuses to play nice with PPB of any kind. That one has an oversize chamber with about .200" freebore which is not the best for shooting any PPB I have tried so far. That's coming but not until I'm happy with how my .44-77 is shooting.

In the end I hope to show that the 2-D PPB is a workable option and get more people shooting their rifles as God intended they should be, with paper patch bullet, be they straight or 2-D.