1fullmag wrote:Has anybody tried to do anything with these yet?
1fullmag-
I don't recall seeing anything reported on this site for Bloodline bullets, whether reloading, performance on paper, performance on water jugs, performance in the field, etc. Your inquiry may the first mention of them here.
However, Bloodline bullets are produced for Knight by Lehigh, a company that produces a variety of interesting all-brass bullets. (Link to
Knight-Lehigh arrangement description).
Lehigh does not show or describe any .451 or .452 bullets on their website:
Lehigh Bullets. I suspect they may make some .452 bullets, but their production all goes to Knight under their agreement. The Knight website shows the bullet diameters for some of their saboted projectiles:
Bloodline bulletsHere's the list of their saboted bullets, using their designation of caliber for the ML bore dia & bullet weight:
- .45/185 - .45 caliber; bullet dia not stated, probably .400 (brown sabot)
- .45/200 - .45 caliber; bullet dia not stated, probably .400 (brown sabot)
- .50/220 - .50 caliber; bullet dia .458, (red sabot)
- .50/250 - .50 caliber; bullet dia .452, (orange sabot)
- .50/275 - .50 caliber; bullet dia .458, (red sabot)
- .50/300 - .50 caliber; bullet dia .458, (red sabot)
- .52/220 - .52 caliber; bullet dia .458, (silver sabot)
- .52/275 - .52 caliber; bullet dia .458, (silver sabot)
- .52/300 - .52 caliber; bullet dia .458, (silver sabot)w
- .54/325 - .54 caliber; bullet dia not stated, probably .50 (purple sabot)
Although they may not be manufactured by Lehigh, the Knight line up of "Red Hot" saboted bullets may utilize some .451 bullets, based on the orange sabot color; their boat-tail bullets in the blue sabots are all .451.
Lehigh bullets have been the subject of some inquiries in the 450B Reloading forum. Some of these threads are, in chronological order:
The 50/250 .452 bullet looks interesting as a possible 450B bullet. However, the list price of about $26 for 20 bullets sort of discourages experimentation by the average member of this forum. (If you would care to send me a couple hundred Lehigh bullets, I'll get right on a project just as soon as the four feet of snow on the local range melts a bit. -- grin)
Here's a link to a photobucket video showing a .458 300-grain Lehigh bullet hitting milk jugs from a muzzleloader at 1900 fps, which is a velocity that can be achieved with that wt bullet in the 450B. If I've counted jugs correctly, it goes through five-&-one-half or six jugs.
Lehigh VideoIt appears to me that there's a grand piano located directly behind the right-hand sawhorse.
--Bob
edited for spelling