On the Range with the Dragoon

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After shooting the ball loads I switched to a heel bullet ...
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The dragoon shows promise. This was my first time out with it. I am gonna need to do a trigger job on it. And work on the sights. But I think it will do well.

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You were always good at getting action shots to post. Is it just me or is that load on the heavy side????

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The bullet is a little heavier than the ball and causes the gun to recoil a bit higher.

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A heeled bullet made from a round ball mold with an enlarged sprue hole?

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My Dad reamed one cavity on a Lee round ball mold so that it made a heel bullet he was playing with.

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It loads fairly easily into the Dragoon chamber and though I only shot a few of them yesterday it seems to have potential for great accuracy. And it is about 25 grains heavier than the round .457" round ball.

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thinking of the hole in the top of the mold where the sprue plate cuts it. Hmmm... I THINK I have a single cavity mold or two floating around up north. Will need to see if that'd be doable for my 1860. Although they're cast iron, which would probably need to be done with something other than a hand drill. Lee aluminum blocks would definitely have an advantage here.

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Some of those period conicals sure look odd compared to more modern bullet profiles but I think perhaps this one has them all beat for oddness.....

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On the Range with the Dragoon

Hottest loads were 45 gr. FFFg which is 5 gr. under max.

Am I correct in what I THINK I see?

Except for the enlarged sprue hole ... yes.

I mistyped...

On the Range with the Dragoon

I do believe that is the weirdest bullet I have ever seen.