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HANDLOADING John Taffin The NWCP 300 and 260-grain rebated boattail .452" bullets. Belt Mountain Punch bullets are turned from solid brass one at a time on a lathe. The base is then hollowed out resulting in a core filled with lead while the nose of the bullet is basically solid brass. The resulting Punch bullets are designed for one application, namely deep penetration on large heavily muscled and boned critters. Being made one at a time they are neither cheap nor designed for casual plinking; load them, sight in, and go hunting. Kelye’s newest offering is a 270 grain .430" designed mainly for the .44 Magnum. This bullet is already being offered in loaded ammunition by Grizzly Cartridge Excellent accuracy with the Belt Mountain Punch Company and clocked out Bullet in the Freedom at just under 1,400 fps from Arms .454. my 71/2" Freedom Arms .44 Magnum. You may recognize this name from Belt Mountain Base Pins for SA revolvers. Kelye Schlep runs both side of the business. Other Punch bullets offered for sixgunners are a 300 grain .430", 305 and 320 grain .452" for the .45 Colt, .454 Casull and .460 Smith & Wesson; 380 grain .475" for the .480 Ruger and .475 Linebaugh; 420 grain .500" for the Freedom Arms .500 Wyoming Express and .500 S&W; and a 458 grain .510" for the .500 Linebaugh. All of these bullets feature deep crimping grooves and in some cases a knurled gripping surface around the lower part of the bullet, which fits inside the case so they stay in place under heavy recoil. What John Likes Notice the deep crimping grooves and knurled surfaces to keep bullets from jumping the grip under recoil in the Belt Mountain .45 and .475 bullets. True Custom Bullets For my personal use I load the Punch bullets somewhat conservatively, however they will still provide more than adequate penetration on anything I am likely to hunt This includes the 320-grain .45 Colt Punch bullet over 22 grains of H4227 for 1,170 from a 45/8" Blackhawk and 1,250 from a 71/2" .45 Colt. For the .454 in the 43/4" Freedom Arms I increase the powder charge to 26 grains to give me 1,325 fps, and for my .475 Linebaugh with the same barrel length 25 grains of the same powder with the 380-grain bullet does 1,175 fps. For a full house loading of the .454 I use the 305 grain over 30 grains of H110 for over 1,650 fps from a Freedom Arms Model 83. Any of these loads provide deep or complete penetration along with excellent accuracy. Big bores are famous for their accuracy and the NWCP loads delivered the goods. SAGE ADVICE FROM THE HANDLOADING GURUS NWCP Bullets Bob Sauter of Northwest Custom Projectile (NWCP) offers a totally different style of bullet as well as different configurations for different applications. NWCP bullets are of more conventional materials — copper with a lead core — however there is nothing conventional about his designs. Bob not only offers plain-based bullets but also a RBBT, which is a rebated boattail. All handloaders know what a rifle boattail looks like, but I don’t know of anyone else who has ever offered the same design for handgun bullets. I first used these for loading heavy bullets in the .45 ACP and covered them in the Sept/Oct 2007 Taffin Tests. NWCP bullets may be custom ordered as to wall thickness according to their intended use. A full house loaded .454 requires a much thicker wall than a standard .45 Colt. If the latter is pushed to the maximum in a .454, bullets can come apart, while the former in a 1,000 fps loading will probably not expand. Bob can custom tailor any bullets to the customer’s specifications. For the .45 NWCP not only offers the 260-grain RBBT Scorpion for regular hunting use, there is also the Man- Stopper, which is basically a full wadcutter with an obscene hollowpoint. These are not for long range accuracy but rather reasonably close maximum effectiveness. In the .50, the ManStopper is also offered, as well as a 350- grain flat-based, flat-tipped hunting bullet. I have tested the NWCP 260 HP .45 Colt bullet in several Ruger Blackhawks. Loaded over 10.5 grains of Hodgdon’s Universal. it clocks out at just under 1,100 fps from a 71/2" barrel and puts five shots into just under 1" at 25 yards. Going to opposite extremes, this bullet over 6.0 grains of Universal in the .45 Auto Rim is a pleasant shooting 800 fps from a 4" S&W Model 25 and does 1,480 fps with 35 grains of Hodgdon’s Li’l Gun loaded in the .460 S&W. In both cases 25 yard groups are right at 1". In the 83/8" S&W .500 the 350 grain Soft Point over 30 grains of H4227 is just under 1,300 fps while staying well under 1" at 25 yards. For serious sixgunners, especially for hunting, one or both of these companies can offer custom bullets which will get the job done. * For more info: Belt Mountain Punch (406) 388-1396, www.americanhandgunner.com/ beltmountain; NWCP (406) 723-8683, www.americanhandgunner.com/norwestcustomprojectile 42 WWW.AMERICANHANDGUNNER.COM • MARCH/APRIL 2011
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