.72 Mold ?

[gunmaker]

Anybody know of a source for a .720 conical mold, 900 gr. more or less ?  (not for me...) client....Tom

[rhbrink]

Have you looked at www.accuratemolds.com he might be able to make one. He has a quick turn around and very reasonable for a custom maker.

RB

[Naphtali]

Anybody know of a source for a .720 conical mold, 900 gr. more or less ?  (not for me...) client....Tom

Tom:

Steve Brooks makes an 880-grain conical. When I chatted with him last, its delivered cost was $235.00, I believe. I have one sample of this bullet. When I have my heavier-than-what-I'm-using Brooks bullet mold is created, I will not be using Mr. Brooks' mold as basis for mine. I strongly prefer the pattern I used for my smaller conical. Its accuracy and forgiveness when being loaded are superior to anything I hoped to achieve.

I had a built-to-my-order 775-grain multiple diameter conical made by Accurate Molds for use in my [being created] .72-caliber English-style Big Bore Express rifles. I currently use it in my Pedersoli Kodiak Safari double rifle.

Hope this helps.

[Daryl]

I am assuming this is for a muzzleloading rifle?

As a side note;

Conical 'balls' did not become popular for SXS (double barreled) black powder rifles until they were contained in a ctg. case. Thus being contained and of groove size, they could be made from hardened lead. 

There was and is a real danger of slippage forward of the unfired bullet which would then constitute an obstruction - as well, the pure lead needed to ease loading and give acceptable accuracy, reduced penetration to less than that of a hardened round ball.  Thus, until the elongated bullets could be made 'safe' and be comprised of hardened lead, the round ball was the best projectile for big game rifles.


Samual Baker wrote "I have rifle that never failed to stop a charging elephant.  I had a 3 ounce conical mould made for that rifle and it led me into such scrapes that I eventually gave up the conical as useless".  A ball of that size (14 bore), hardened with tin or mercury, driven by 4 1/2 or even 5 Drachms of powder, would penetrate through and through an elephant's skull."

Verl Smith or NEI comes to mind for Paradox-type bullets - any custom bullet mould maker.