I'm looking for experiences on accurate no-groove bullets.  Shape, lubricant, size and so forth.  Swaged or cast.

Cat,
I shot a 22rf breech seated with a grooveless bullet for a few years. I shot more that 1000 rounds between testing and matches with it and never once leaded the barrel in hot or cold weather. I used both Lee alox and Darr lube on it. I can't remember which did better.

It is a Mann style 2 diameter bullet with a sptizer nose. The nose slightly engraves the lands and the base band was about .001 over the .223 groove. If you do a seach for 22rf breech seat, it should turn up the thread that I posted it on. There are pics of the bullet and mold.

Frank

I have .30 and .45 molds cut by Werner Wolf. There are bullets that shoot more accurately than the .30 bullet in some of my guns. I should do some more work with this bullet. The .45 bullet dipped in Darr lube so it's lightly coated, with a LDPE wad, 24/SR4759, Rem 2 1/2 shoots well. Last time out averaged 1.380" for 5 5 shot groups.
No leading problems with either bullet. .45 ~445 gr., .30 ~ 208 gr.
joe b.

The 22 cal bullets that I used were 20/1 but, I'm sure that 30/1 would has also worked in 22.

Frank

Here's what the swaged 32's look like, this one is a 190 Gr., .322,  30-1. Being swaged the bases are perfectly flat and there are no air pockets, voids, wrinkles,  or anything else to affect the bullet,  the bearing surface of the bullet is knurled then the lube is applied and impregnated into the sides of the bullet when it's sized. 
  Old Center Shot

Hi,
The photo is not of a finished bullet.
That photo is when the lead is pushed too far into the die.
The nose is actually flat without the little tip.

The lead used is bullet wire that I purchase.
Only the .32 caliber bullet is available at this time.
The .30 caliber tooling has not been delivered yet.

Let me know what twist your barrel is and I can 
recommend a weight that should work in it.
I will work with shooters to get the weight that works best in your rifle.

Dave
Contact me for more info.
570-851-4631

This became a new problem for me this year. I have always used cast bullets, but I aquired a set of NDFS swaging dies for a .38 Special hollow based round nosed bullet and I thought that they would be the answer for .360 no5 and .380 long. These Rook rifles have grooves in excess of .372" dia.
According to traditional reloading wisdom, I did everything wrong. The slugs were sprayed with 3 in 1 oil befor swaging, set up on a tray and sprayed with a bicycle chain lube containing ptfe.
Results---first place in the black powder class in the Midland Rook Rifle championship followed by first place at Bisley in the 100yd off-hand Rook Rifle comp at the Trafalgar meeting. I like swaged bullets.
Fred

I got my hands on a bunch of those no groove bullets in .381" several years ago. They were dirt cheap, so I figured I'd give them a try in one of my Ballards. 
I lubed them with liquid alox and shot 20 rounds at the range. To my surprise they were extremely accurate, so now I covet them!