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Modifying the Factory Bullet
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<blockquote data-quote="huffmanite" data-source="post: 423975" data-attributes="member: 26864"><p>Just discovered this site and had to respond to this thread with my first post.</p><p> </p><p>Elderly gent at range I'm a member has a couple of very nice 1885 Winchester hi walls and one is chambered in 348 Winchester, a cartridge originally designed for tube magazine rifles. So, only ammo/bullets for this odd diameter bullet cartridge are only available in Flat Nose. He wanted to try some pointed bullets, so decided to make his own.</p><p> </p><p>He used his home bench lathe to cut a hole in the jacketed lead flat nose and inserted what I think was a 35 grain jacketed 22 Hornet bullet. None of lead was now exposed and he had a double oglive bullet. Looked odd, but I was at range day he tried his reloads with the new bullets. The old 1885 scoped hi wall shot some pretty good groups at 100 and 200 yard targets. Gent was well pleased with its results. Shot just as good as his flat nose bullets.</p><p> </p><p>I had a good chuckle when another shooter at range that day, who's known the retired gent for a long time, examined his creation and commented, "Bill, you truely have too much spare times on your hands these days.</p><p> </p><p>This happened about a month ago. Elderly gent can't wait for this years deer season to try out the new bullets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="huffmanite, post: 423975, member: 26864"] Just discovered this site and had to respond to this thread with my first post. Elderly gent at range I'm a member has a couple of very nice 1885 Winchester hi walls and one is chambered in 348 Winchester, a cartridge originally designed for tube magazine rifles. So, only ammo/bullets for this odd diameter bullet cartridge are only available in Flat Nose. He wanted to try some pointed bullets, so decided to make his own. He used his home bench lathe to cut a hole in the jacketed lead flat nose and inserted what I think was a 35 grain jacketed 22 Hornet bullet. None of lead was now exposed and he had a double oglive bullet. Looked odd, but I was at range day he tried his reloads with the new bullets. The old 1885 scoped hi wall shot some pretty good groups at 100 and 200 yard targets. Gent was well pleased with its results. Shot just as good as his flat nose bullets. I had a good chuckle when another shooter at range that day, who's known the retired gent for a long time, examined his creation and commented, "Bill, you truely have too much spare times on your hands these days. This happened about a month ago. Elderly gent can't wait for this years deer season to try out the new bullets. [/QUOTE]
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