Recovered 2-diameter PPB.

[Distant Thunder]

Kurt,

I'll post a picture of a .44 caliber mold I just made using the cutter I told you about. That is what I will have Rick make for me so I have a good mold. It is very much like the one on the right in your picture.

I save a lot of the pictures I see, label them and refer back to the information when I'm thinking about designs and such. My wife would tell you that all I think about is bullets, but that's not entirely true. I do think about other things once in a while, when time permits!

I do thank you for offer of your mold and as I said I will very likely take you up on that and not too far down the road. First I need a rifle! then I need to put sights on it, I got those. I'm going to put scope bases on it before the wood goes back on. The wood is all refinish good enough for a 30 year old rifle anyway. I have 200 brass that needs to be fire formed and there will be a bug or two to work out here and there.

I plan to start load development with the BACO nose pour adjustable paper patch mold I have. That bullet will let me fine tune the length and all the load details as I find out what this rifle is going to like. Right now I have no frigging clue.

That rifle came to me as a .45-70 back in 1992 or 93. It was one of the rifles that Kirk made in his first year at Shiloh. I learned to shoot black powder it that rifle, without having to dump it down the barrel. The rifle shot very well once I learned a little about how to load BP in a cartridge. I went to my first match with that rifle in 1995 at Friendship. I took that rifle to Lodi my first time there in May of 1997. It had a 26" barrel and a mid-range tang sight that I had made changes to so I could shoot 1000 yards. I was hooked on long range after the first shot!

I later had a 30" barrel put on it and chambered for .45-90. It shot very well then too and had more reach and I learned a lot shooting it as a .45-90. Now it will be a .44-77 and I will learn a lot more from that old rifle. I have certainly got my moneys worth out of that one.

We'll need to sit and talk about the .44-77 when we cross paths at a match or two this year and you can help me shorten the learning curve some. I'll enjoy that!

See ya then!