lee makes a real bullet that had a flat point with lots of groves and I always wanted to try them in a pistol. Like a heavy hollow base wadcutter. Great short range deer round.

Well... I've done muzzle loading round balls (soft lead) in cartidges before (.45 Colt case with a lead round ball pushed in) and they sorta work... the biggest problem I see with using a cast muzzle loading Minni is that if it's cast soft lead for muzzle loading use, then it might be too soft if pushed at smokeless powder velocities... if you do load them soft, I'd load black powder or 777 powder in the case instead of any modern smokeless powder....

my two cents worth... GRIN

http://www.lymanproducts.com/lyman/bullet-casting/mould-details-blackpowder.php?entryID=84
I have this mold And have used it in a couple of .45 colts. I just lubed the bottom groove and then seated and crimped in the top. They shot great. I tried them on my steel out to around.50 yards. My only "problem" with it is it uses a lot of lube.

I used one like this:

http://www.precisionreloading.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PRE&P...

In my .43 Mauser 71/84. It cast a little small, but was a hollow base mold. Loaded over black powder, it did just fine for me!

Hoot,

Years ago I used the Lee REAL (Rifling Engraved At Loading) designed for the Ruger Old Army - in an Old Army - over a snort of inappropriate powder. My one regret is that I used muzzle loading lube (Ox Yoke wonderlube or something like that) that was kind of goopey, gooey, runny stuff that would have been good enough for FFFg loads but which contaminated the inappropriate powder charge and lead to a burst barrel. However, when fresh loaded that pistol had some tremendous power. No chrony around but judging by later experiments with cartridge pistols of similar caliber leads me to believe that the load was generating in excess of 1,200 fps. Now, the weight of that bullet is not remembered by yours truly. It was, however, a nice fit in the Ruger Old Army, methinks it was around .257 or so, which may or may not work in your stated application of 455 Eley. Is this an original gun or a modern repro effort? It would be nifty if cast of pure lead and launched at a more sedate speed than the stomp 'em loads it was my pleasure to develop way back in the depths of youth...

does not show the Ruger Old Army variation of the REAL. Don't know if my memory is faulty as to its existence, but can not remember any possible alternative conical that might have played a part in my experiments. Methinks it's been discontinued.