How about a 432-423?

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I love that profile in the .45 Colt. I suspect it would make an awesome .44 special/mag bullet.

Here is the profile in .45
But I want it in .44 as well.
Who’s in?

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[Full.Lead.TacoKeymaster]

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Is the 277 keith style too heavy?

[charlesgilbertParticipant]

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It’s not too heavy. But this shorter nose seems to fly better for me. (I have the Keith in all calibers)

[Full.Lead.TacoKeymaster]

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It’s not too heavy. But this shorter nose seems to fly better for me. (I have the Keith in all calibers)

Ha ha ok, do you have dimensions in mind?

[charlesgilbertParticipant]

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I don’t have one that I have measured. Wouldn’t it just be the existing .452 bullet that NOE makes, scaled down by 0.95±?

[Full.Lead.TacoKeymaster]

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Just the bands?  Or scale the whole thing down?

[mikebohannanParticipant]

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I would think that something along these lines that weighed around 215 to 220 grains would be great in the 44 Special

[charlesgilbertParticipant]

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I would say, the whole thing. But I’d have to sit down and measure one and scale each dimension if I were to give you a drawing. I would figure that somebody would have a program that might do that from a 454-423 bullet.

[matthewsaunorasParticipant]

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I’ve been looking for something in the 210-220 gr range to shoot in my model 69

[Full.Lead.TacoKeymaster]

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I can’t really scale bullets up or down in the drawing program I use.  But, if you have some measurements, I can draw it up pretty easily.

[Hugh KuhnsParticipant]

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I am not a bullet designer by even the wildest stretch of imagination. I have been watching this thread and said to myself,  “How  difficult could this be? Well as I fumbled around with numbers it didn’t take long to see why the ones who do this have a computer program that takes all of the guesswork out of designing these things. The thing I came worked up looks like a NOE 432 255 and they are in the web store. Maybe it could be re-designed?

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[davidisaacsParticipant]

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I would say leave the band lengths, nose length and overall length as is just make the diameter smaller by .021-.022  and it would be fine. I ran it quick through the mountain mold software and it should be about 220 gr.

[Full.Lead.TacoKeymaster]

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How wide of meplat?

[davidisaacsParticipant]

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If you maintained the 75% meplat that the 452423 has a .432 version is .324 if my math is right.
.340 ÷ .453 = .7505 or 75%
.432 × 75% = .324

[Full.Lead.TacoKeymaster]

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ok, here it is, how’s it look?  what changes do you want to see?

[charlesgilbertParticipant]

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I like it. Let’s make a RG4 of it. 

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