A couple of questions for Mr. Porter?
Does the ogive flow down to meet the top band? What is the ratio of the four bands total width to the bullet's length? Is the 395 grain weight for a bullet in pure lead?
Is there any possibility of purchasing one of these moulds? I would be really, Really, REALLY, REALLY interested in doing so.
I also own a Green Mountain, .50 caliber × 1-28" twist, LRH barrel, and this bullet seems just about perfect as to weight versus recoil when taking my osteoarthritis into consideration.
P.s.
It is a beautiful looking bullet. If it performs as well as it appears, then it should be incredible.
Yes the ogive flows into the top band.
.525 from the base to the top of the band on the ogive, to .805 overall length.
They weigh 391-392 cast out of sheet lead.
Yes you can purchase one but, I have all manual machines, no CNC, so the labor to make one is rather intensive. You’re most economical way to acquire one would be through Accurate Molds. It is basically the 50-385M that I added a hollow point to. If you have a local machine shop that could do your pin, that would be the most economical way to go.
I primarily build the molds for my own use. Im not really set up to mass produce them.
Thank you for the compliment. I think it looks like a shooter as well!
I haven’t tried it yet. Hopefully this weekend.
I built the mold based off of Snapbang’s request, and, it sounded like a bullet I’d like to shoot myself.
If it shot well for him, he wanted to purchase a few hundred of them, so it was worth my time.
His inaugural outing with it didn’t go super. I gave him a couple things to try and we’ll see what happens with it from there....
The mold alignment to the handles was a bit off, so the bullets I sent him weren’t perfectly concentric which could have contributed to the slightly dismal result he experienced. I have since corrected that and the last batch I casted are pretty close to perfect.....