Sir Ron, well done on making a better version of the Barnes 400gr X bullet a reality. Your persistence has been rewarded.
It looks like a great bullet for many uses.
Sir Joe, Buy a donkey for your excellent discernment of a good bullet.
Such discernment reminds me of what a national treasure, nay world treasure was the prodigious Ross Seyfried, all around Gun Crank Extraordinaire and superb writer.
That was until he went whacko and denied the .458 Winchester Magnum. He denied it as surely as Peter's denial of Jesus, three times before the cock crowed. "In Defiance of the .458 Winchester" by Ross Seyfried, RIFLE 211, Jan-Feb 2004 Yet Just in the previous year he had been anthropomorphizing his love for the .458 WinMag onto a Ruger No. 1, saying that it loved paper-patched bullets:
"Paper Patched Bullets" HANDLOADER 220 Dec-Jan 2003, pp. 58-65.
"Modern rifles are often quite happy to use patched bullets. Once again, where it might be difficult to get reasonable accuracy from a .30-06 with bare lead bullets and velocity over 2000 fps, it can be very easy to approach the magical inch groups with paper patches. Further, while I have not pushed the system as far, others have achieved reasonable accuracy out of 'magnums' with velocity over 3,000 fps. I had a stock Ruger No. 1 .458 Winchester Magnum that was absolutely in love with patched bullets. Inch groups were the norm at 2,100 to 2,200 fps, even with pure lead bullets.
"One more bizarre use of paper patches, in conjunction with 'modern rifles' is making undersize jacketed bullets fit the rifle. I have successfully fitted .458-inch bullets to .470 Nitro rifles ..."
Is there hope that Ross will repent? Peter wept when the rooster crowed, and Jesus looked at him. I will weep for joy at the repentance of Ross.
Ron aka "Rip" for Riflecrank Internationale Permanente NRA Life Benefactor and Beneficiary .458 Winchester Magnum, Magnanimous in Victory THE WALKING DEAD does so remind me of Democrap voters. Donkeypox.
