Hollow point

[AbitNutz]

Ok, so this is likely to be weird but I'm trying it anyway. One of the best loads I shoot in my ROA is triple 7 topped with a DD/PUK/ROA-II Big Lube 210 grain bullet. I've got a really nice precision hollow pointing jig ordered from one of the folks on another forum (castboolits). He's a machinist and his universal jig looks like just the thing.

I'm getting a series drill bits with it of varying sizes. I'm going to see which is the most accurate with a bunch of different powders and caps. Once I have that figured I'm going to have someone...to be identified later...make a matching ram tip that will be the reverse profile of the bullets hollow point profile. I have a extended one made by Banana River with a brass tip that is really neat. One similar to that would just be peachy.

With the chamfered cylinder chamber mouths, the bullets rebated base and pointed ram tip holding the bullets hollow point. I'm thinking the bullet will be held pretty much aligned so I can pop it in and easily (hopefully) ram it home. Right now it's a lot easier to pop out the cylinder and use a loading stand.

Like I say, it's a bit of a weird idea but so is how much I like my ROA.

 

[w_houle]

How about having a ram milled to preserve the hollow point?

 

[Oyeboten]

Long as the Bullet is of soft-enough Lead Alloy, or pretty near pure Lead...it may just expand decently.

 

[MCgunner]

I have one of the old Lee 220 conical hollow point molds. The hollow in that bullet is rather small. I've often been skeptical of whether it'd actually expand or not. I'm not using my .457 round nose mold at this time, cast all hollow point for the ROA. The only reason I'm doing this, though, is so that I can tell them from my .454 conicals I cast for my Navy and, well, they do look kinda neat. It is an accurate bullet, just as accurate as the round nose version.

 

[AbitNutz]

One of the drill bits I'm getting is 1/4". That's a pretty good size. I picture the bullet like it was in a lathe, aligned between the chamber mouth and rams inverted HP profile.

I'm not sure how much lighter that will make the bullet...

 

[MCgunner]

Depends on how much lead you remove/how deep you drill, I guess, as to how light the bullet will be. You MIGHT (I really don't know) find that the bullet becomes unstable if you remove too much lead. It'll be an interesting project. Be sure and post results.