Continuing this story, Dennis has finally decided on a bullet design and had Tom at Accurate make a 3 cav aluminum mold which he shipped directly to me, got it yesterday. Don't know where how or why this design came about other than he has been asking questions of a lot of people for some time. The only input he took my advice on was to reduce the lube grooves, he had this thing carrying enough lube for 5 bullets. It's marked 36-2260. Bullet is for subsonic 357 mag, approximately 220 gr relying on momentum to take down 200 meter rams with both a Winchester and Marlin model 94. It will have a profound rainbow trajectory, says he understands that but is determined to prove it'll work. I also tried talking him out of the rebated boat tail to no avail, he says it'll aid ballistics. I doubt very much at subsonic at the muzzle, he says maybe some day he may want to try higher velocities. Oh well. I'll cast him up a few hundred in various form, mostly my 12 BHN alloy, some with the 8 BHN alloy. He'll also get them Star sized at .359", maybe a few at .358". He wanted .357" but he ain't getting that from me. I'll also on some of them only fill one lube groove, shooting subsonic this thing still carries a lot of lube. I'll lube most with LBT Blue, some with Speed Green that I made up a few years back. Should be plenty to give him enough testing, he says if they work he's having Tom cut another mold for the Magma casting machine and Penn will cast his bullets. Couldn't talk him into buying a pot and casting his own but I will be out of the casting business.
