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Now I shoot almost exclusively cast SWC'S in my pistols. And every one of them, regardless of design and year, have smaller driving bands. And I never paid that one single thought either as they all shot just fine.
A couple years ago I read an article by a fella on a site that appears to be well thought of as he's a kinda honcho or something on that site. And far be it for me to say anything about another caster, loader, and shooter. Wasn't raised to speak poorly about another. But, this fella was saying that an undersized driving band is a bad thing and the bullet hasn't got a chance in being remotely accurate. He went on to say that he had most of his moulds opened up to have oversized front driving bands, and on a few, he said even that didn't help. His story was that a smaller front driving band was an invitation to bullet hopping and skidding up and down the bore and never will they shoot right. And naturally he sang high praises for the Keith style SWC, and usually cursed most others. From what I read from this guy, he was cussing one mould that was not to his liking and later was lumping in many more and sighting the front driving bands as the deciding factor for all.
So, all you well versed and studious members (and I mean this not in a facetious way either) what do you think? Do front driving bands all need to be bore size or bigger? Or can they be slightly smaller like on the majority of moulds made yesterday and today? Tell me what you think.
A couple years ago I read an article by a fella on a site that appears to be well thought of as he's a kinda honcho or something on that site. And far be it for me to say anything about another caster, loader, and shooter. Wasn't raised to speak poorly about another. But, this fella was saying that an undersized driving band is a bad thing and the bullet hasn't got a chance in being remotely accurate. He went on to say that he had most of his moulds opened up to have oversized front driving bands, and on a few, he said even that didn't help. His story was that a smaller front driving band was an invitation to bullet hopping and skidding up and down the bore and never will they shoot right. And naturally he sang high praises for the Keith style SWC, and usually cursed most others. From what I read from this guy, he was cussing one mould that was not to his liking and later was lumping in many more and sighting the front driving bands as the deciding factor for all.
So, all you well versed and studious members (and I mean this not in a facetious way either) what do you think? Do front driving bands all need to be bore size or bigger? Or can they be slightly smaller like on the majority of moulds made yesterday and today? Tell me what you think.