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[Distant Thunder]

"I have great confidence in the 1.35 long bullet I shoot in the 44 2.4
I would think that at 1.4 a .44 caliber bullet should with stand about anything Mother Nature can throw at it and still make 1000 on a stable flight path."

Don,

I believe you are correct in this. That is in effect what Brent did this past weekend. He shot 16-twist 77 Sharps but he didn't shoot his "long" prolate, he shot his shorter silhouette version of that bullet, the one he had made for his 18-twist high wall. He felt he has been having stability issues with the long bullet (1.520") and decided to go with the shorter bullet to take the stability issue off the table. It sure did work!

I don't think a 1.400" .44 caliber bullet is too short in a 17-twist and it sure isn't too long. It should weight 500 grains +/- 5 grains and that's enough weight.

I will be testing bullets somewhere around that length next.