Ness 30cal safety slug

I got my mold the other day & cast some of these ness boolits, the mold was a little tricky to cast with but I managed to get 8# of bullets in a little over an hour.

These boolits have one heck of a hp.

A boolit that I cut open to get a good look at the hp.

I managed to do some pulmonary testing of this bullet today & all I can say is SWEET!!!!!

It performed extremely well at the low velocities I loaded them at. I did some test loads with 12gr of Herco (1400fps) & shot them into wet newspaper & milk jugs @ 50yds.

This boolit was intended to be cast with a hard lead alloy so that it would be brittle enough to crack/break/implode into pieces upon impact. I used nothing more than scrap range lead that was water dropped.

Here?s some recovered bullets that were shot into wet newspaper @ 50yds. The bullet bases were found & 5? deep into the wet paper & the bullet fragments were scattered along the channel. The bullet base that is marked ?milk jug? was all that was left from a bullet striking a gallon milk jug full of water @ 50yds.

What the newspaper looked like @ the 3? mark (deep), the bullets just turned the paper to a sticky paste in the hole they created.

I?ll be working a load up for a Springfield 03a3 (2 groove bbl) & was thinking about 16gr of 2400 for a starting point.

I have been curious about how those would work. Nice!

I made a "clone", we'll call it, and seem to be getting accuracy similar to what was reported in the original articles on the Ness Safety Bullet.

I have been loading over 18 to 22 grs. IMR4227 but as with the original, better accuracy seems to be with the lighter charges. I have as yet to blow up a milk jug though!

Congratulations on your first "kill"! I am betting there was not much of the milk jug left.

Looking forward to more reports.

Longbow

Waiting for accuracy reports. . . .

"You are not a hoarder until you have exceeded a lifetime supply"

Well it's kinda of an accuracy report. Went back to the range today with some of these ness boolits loaded up with 12gr of herco & managed to shoot a 5-shot group @ 50yds before I went back to blowing stuff up. The boolit cuts clean round holes in the target just like a wadcutter boolit.

Me & this boolit is like a 6 year old with a pack of fire crackers. When I get all the playing around out of my system I'll have to put some test loads on paper @ the 100yd line.

My testing equipment:

Where's the group? All I see is one long hole.

I missed out on one of these molds, I thought it was something someone had manufactured in their basement, and by the time I figured out what it was, the shop had sold it for $20. Rats!

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Abbreviations used in Reloading
Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt"

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