Ok, so there I was, on the Great Plains of the Shot Show, hitting up some of the Bullet Manufacturers, for a 325gr+- with a very think jacket and a hard-lead core. We have the lighter 230's in a FMJ, but not a truly dedicated FourFifty Heavy Weight. 700 grainers are fun to look at and shoot and 500gr seems like a possible choice for a heavy, beings you can find them anywhere and we can draw them down to .452. But truly, anything over 350gr gets you into Diminishing Returns, same thing for the socom and beowulf and those guys like the really heavies but hey, I can make a bowling ball come out of the barrel, but what kind of damage will it do, besides smashing your toe.
I just got a call from Barnes, and their 452 Barnes Buster Bullet is a 325gr Flat-Point. The jacket is .064" and the core is Hard-Lead. The Head of Barnes' Ballistics told me that I was the inspiration behind the Barnes Buster's, cool. Big Deal you say, well guess what, they are sending me a ton of them (not sure how many yet, they only have five boxes of fifty, at this time, but promise all I can use, well, I can use allot, and so will some of you) and I am going to shotgun them out to selected Fellow Travelers (that's V.I. Lenin talk, but works here too) here on 450Bushmaster.net and together we are going to come up with a load to submit to Remmy, for yet another Loading. If Remmy won't do it there are many others that will, Federal, Winchester or who ever, but I don't think the Freedom Group will let my work go to anybody else. Watt-cha-thinks-bout-all-dis?
Just to get you thinking.. Rule of thumb, for high end performance, light bullets usually burn Faster Powders and Heavy bullets seem to like the slower powders, for a given cartridge. The 45 Professional liked 1680 the best for the 230's, but with this shorter case, lil-gun is shining (I personally am not convinced yet, but it's sure getting harder to argue the facts). Now, I have tons of 1680, so don't go out and buy any, let me do the work there. I also have enough RX7 to eliminate that as a contender, which I think will be too slow, but, we do have to try it. For my money I think we'll either be in the lil-gun or most likely the 296/4227 area, but I will get data for 1680 as soon as I can. Even if you don't get any of these freebie bullets (as they will not be in infinite amounts, and only a few will get them), I'll be looking, from all the rest of you, for advice, while we post the results. But in any event, think about it and we'll put together a game plan to concur the world.
When we finally decide on a loading we'll have so much data that Remmy won't be able to say no. Right now, I'm thinking, that when I do this presentation, I will take the guys that have, hands on, worked on the project with me.
Of course, if Lockheed-Martin can have their "Skunk Works", then we ought to have a Mudder's Marauders, or some such acronym (Hey, might as well have some fun with this too). To be clear, you're not going to make any money for this, you might save some money, time will tell and this will cost you some money, for powder/primers, etc. (I do have some brass I can souvenir you), but what you will get is self satisfaction, a bunch of left over bullets, and your names in the History Books.
Who's in??
..t
PS..It has two crimping grooves, so that we can pick one up with the LeGendre Side Crimp..