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Paul Jones Mould
Yesterday at 7:59pm
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Greetings,

I have a Paul Jones mould marked on the sprue plate "40 CAL".

With 20:1 alloy, the bullets drop at 440 grains, 0.402 nose, and 0.412 driving band.

It does not fit my Browning 1885 BPCR in 40-65 very well.

Paul is gone; but, does anyone know what this bullet is designed for?

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Dave
  
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Re: Paul Jones Mould
Reply #1 - yesterday at 9:50pm
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I have a 40 cal PJ Creedmoor mould that has a .402” nose and .411 body, 1.33” long and drops 409 grains with 9 lbs of WW + 1 pound of Lino.  The nose will not fit in the muzzle because it is .401”. However, it will fit in the DZ 40-65 chamber.  COAL is 2.915”.   
I have been told that the DZ chamber is similar to the Browning.  Have you tried to shoot any of them?

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Steve
  
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Re: Paul Jones Mould
Reply #2 - yesterday at 10:05pm
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Check to make sure that there's no lead on the face of the mold halves that might be keeping it from closing entirely. Also check around the alignment pins to see if there might be lead there that's keeping it from closing all the way. Do you see light between the mold halves when it's closed? Could the mold be warped?
  
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Re: Paul Jones Mould
Reply #3 - Today at 12:00am
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fc60 wrote yesterday at 7:59pm:
Greetings,

I have a Paul Jones mould marked on the sprue plate "40 CAL".
With 20:1 alloy, the bullets drop at 440 grains, 0.402 nose, and 0.412 driving band.
It does not fit my Browning 1885 BPCR in 40-65 very well.
Paul is gone; but, does anyone know what this bullet is designed for?
Cheers,
Dave


Dave,

Assuming there's nothing wrong with the mould, at 440grs, even if it did fit the chamber & throat, that's going to be a relatively long bullet for a 16-twist bore.
Therefore, you may not get the best accuracy.

Over several years I've shot over 7,000 rounds through a Browning .40-65 BPCR using 10 different bullets.  I found that anything longer than 1.4" degraded long-range accuracy.

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Re: Paul Jones Mould
Reply #4 - Today at 6:53am
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I have a Douglass Supreme  Match  barrel that’s supposed to be a .40 cal. But it’s actually measures .405 with a 14 twist.
It shoots a .412 bullet….



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