TheOutlawKid
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Hey all i wanted to share my new design on a .36 conical that i had tom at accurate molds create. Many Months ago i had him create on due to the lack of navy caliber conicals on the market. Ive had great success with kaidos conicals but wanted something with larger lube grooves and something like an R.E.A.L bullet...but for navy caliber. So in my design i made a flat nosed connical with large lube grooves and tapered so that it aligns into the chambers perfectly straight. Works well in piettas and ubertis..the bottom band measures at .362, middle is .370 and top band is .380...and is .510 tall. i first had the bottom band at .360 but noticed it would barely make contact with the rifling of the barrel on some guns so i opened it up to .362 , although .360 would still have been fine due to the obturation of soft lead "bumping up" to fill the grooves. My original measurements were going to have the lower band at .368 and the middle band at .375 but that would only fit uberti chambers and/or piettas whos chambers had been reamed over their stock .367 chamber diameter. Its top band also acts as a fouling scraper to clear out flouling from the previous shot. Grooves also hold lots and lots of lube given that each are a tenth of an inch wide and pretty deep. They weigh out to exactly 130 grains...which gives it lots more knock down power. With 20-25 grains of powder and the 130 grain weight its pretty much like shooting a .44 army cap n ball. These bullets are tack drivers too...as accurate as kaidos and round ball. The kaidos give me round ball accuracy..and im now suprised these do as well. Heres a pic comparing them to kaido 140 grain conicals. Kaido conicals on the left and my conical design on the right.
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