HTC version of the 454-230-RN H&G 34

I’ve thought about that too, but if you wanted to keep the bullet weight, you’d have to shorten the length a bit.  Are you wanting to shorten the length a little or just add a little weight?

I will try to draw it up and see how much weight is gained, but I do agree–it is one heck of a nice bullet profile in the 45.

I talked to Al on the phone and he said there is a possibility that we can use existing tooling to make this bullet and run it as an inventory run (only need 5 buyers instead of 10).  Would we want to take the diameter down to .453 or leave it at .454?  If we take the diameter down to .453, then the nose would change by .oo1 also.  If we leave it as is, the bullets will come out to the same as the original design, but with no lube groove (but will gain diameter from the powder coat/HiTek coating).  I’d be fine either way.

Yup, should do it.

cornmastah,

How much different would we be looking at reduce the base a bit to make it a truer 230gr?

I’m not saying it has to be done. I’m curious since we added weight and bearing surface by filling in the groove. Do we need that extra weight?
Would looking at removing 5gr worth be ok? Could say I’m just looking at it from a convenient load data angle for new loaders etc.

No big deal, just a thought that crossed my mind.

Thanks,

I would be interested in this too. Please let me know when it is posted. (not sure if it would be posted in Inventory Run or Group Buy) And yes, as close to original dimensions as possible or else it isn’t really an H&G anymore.

ok, talked to Al to see if he can get us the official drawing–and then we can start the inventory run.  There may be a possibility of running these with hollow points and having a round nose pin.