Bullet weight ????

[Freedom]

While practice/fun shooting at the Quigley Buffalo with my 45-70 and a 535gr. Postell, I desided to see how my 410 gr. flat points held up at distance. Having no sight settings for the 410's I just loaded the round and fired it with the Postell setting figureing to allow the dust to tell me what to do with my sight setting.....the radio rang back!!!! That little flat point had hit steel!!

I proceeded to fire all of my practice ammo, mixing the Postells and the 410fp's at the various targets using the same postell setting for both, and was able to hit steel just fine. This was a full 125gr. different and totally different profille.

Both loads had the exact same 68gr 2f KIK load and 150LP primers. All the bullets had been lot weighed to withing 1gr of each other.

I do believe that an air void or slag pocket can cause the shot to be a "Flyer" . NOT because of a lighter/heavier bullet,... but because of an "out-of-balance" issue... so I do weigh my bullets and keep them in groups from the same casting sessions and don't mix groups....

Last casting session resulted in one group of bullets that contained about 75 533's, 180 534's, and 100 535's. and about 5 or 6 that went light into the 532 or less range (the 5 or 6 were thrown into the scrap bucket for remelting)