Thread: 25cal hp casting oops

Originally Posted by Cordite

With the generous meplat maybe HP is overkill. Maybe just use them as they turned out?

The tiny bit extra weight up front should also improve stability, and not having the HP means one less potential source of bullet assymmetry.

I had given that some thought, my thinking was that this doesn’t have the same controlled expansion that a jacketed projectile offers? Plus moving the center of balance back just a tad may help what little aerodynamics of the home made lead cast im making, I could and may be well off but I have a 30 cal that I have used in the past that proved, fruitful when I hade used it, it’s a mini trash can, I had used some earlier versions of what we had affectionately named the 6.5 cruise missile for the Carcano, but that punched through (everything) with little deformation, admittedly that could well be my fault in the lead mix, but good comment, well worth me going back to some of my old school reloading books,

This is the trashcan latest iteration