What is it? XL

O.K. with that deep a cavity, the behavior should be quite similar to a Minnie ball, though the exterior shape is somewhat unusual for one. But I have not seen many (either original or replicas), so it could be common in some areas or calibers.

Enjoy, DoN.

If its hollow, its a Minni'e. Or a Paradox..

Gunner

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I finally got around to looking at the photo.

Thats a Heath/ Keith style Semiwad cutter, and is likely to have come from a Henseley and Gibbs mould with a second choice being Ideal.

What is the diameter of the second band? If its .429-.433, its likely for the 44 Special and if its .452-.455, its for the .45 ACP, both rounds to be fired typically from a target revolver. Hollow base bullets were very common in the 30s-70s for Bullseye shooters who were shooting light to medium loads at paper targets. The most common such today are 38 Special hollow base bullets, which typically have a totally blunt nose with no ogive.

Gunner

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Thanks for the info, and also to everyone else who responded to this one, the diameter at the base is .5625 (9/16"), the other bands appear to be the same.

Closer to the Lyman 575494 Minie, I think:

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Correct.

Nope

I don't think it's a pointing tool

The diameter is just a little larger than 9/16" so it looks like you're right, it's probably a Lyman 575494, thanks for the link.

(: Good! I was starting to wonder if I was amusing anyone or simply being annoying.

Mechanical pencil. Umm...of DOOM! There, sounds better now.

Correct

These aren't gear teeth, it's actually three separate objects next to each other.

This one isn't a pencil, nor rope/twine.

Nope.

OOOH!! I didnt know Lyman made that mould. Very nice!

Gunner

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Shame they don't have a .6 (.596 true bore) to suit my commercial hunting snyder....

You _are_ posting (or crossposting) to r.c.m - maybe someone can make you a suitable cherry and/or mold?

R, Tom Q.

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What's with the grooves? I haven't seen them in modern cartridges, though Minies had them. Were these for black-powder revolvers?

Yeah, I'm not sure who's getting their ideas from whom. I think that LBT based their design on Keith's, but I don't know if Keith based his design on a previous one or not.

I think that Lyman duplicated bullet designs where they found them and I wouldn't be surprised if this particular design predated Keith. Not to take any credit from Keith - he did a lot to advance/resurrect bullet casting, regardless.

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No problem.

It looks pretty similar, but I wouldn't be too sure that it came from a Lyman mold. That mold might well be based on an a prevoius bullet, designed by someone else.

Note that on the same web page there is a Lyman version of the "Maxi" bullet (mentioned earlier in this thread), which, I believe, was developed, and is still sold by, Thompson Center.

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They (in cast bullets) are to carry lube into the bore, so you don't get as much lead fouling.

Not too common in jacketed revolver bullets (which is what I usually shoot), though some rifle bullets have a groove for the case mouth crimp, so the bullet is not either driven deeper or partially pulled by recoil in the weapon -- or even worse, by the stack of bullets in a tubular magazine. (There, you *really* want a blunt nose, so it does not set of the primer of the next cartridge above it in the magazine. :-)

Out of curiosity -- since this is so heavily cross-posted, why don't we put an indicator as to which newsgroup we are posting from? I'm posting from rec.crafts.metalworking, FWIW.

Enjoy, DoN.

I think that "Maxi" is a Thompson Center creation. I think the correct spelling is "Minie", with an accent over the "e". I could post it using extended ASCII, but I don't think that my 8-bit ASCII is the same as everyone else's 8-bit ASCII.

As an aside, is there a UNIX/WENIX/Linux standard for 8-bit ASCII?

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