Reeder Custom Guns - Does anyone know of or think even possible

that we might someday see a cast bullet mould in that "scalloped bullet" design like those "Honey Badger" black Hills loads. There is some sound science in the fluid dynamics of that and I think it fantastic for the cast bullet application. However we are so small a market it may not attract enough interest to warrant.

The robustness of a solid with some wound cavity traits of an expanding bullet. Is there a manufacturing element I'm missing? I know moulds are both milled and cherry reamed.

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Lead ain't as strong as copper alloy. Cast it too hard and it becomes brittle. Softer alloy rivets.

I would stick with the Keith SWC. It's hard to beat.

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and straight penetration. The flutes do the same thing in a more dramatic manner. Sort of like doubling the size of the flat point. Being a homogeneous metal I think normal cast in that shape would do well also. So what if it bends a little? Jacketed will also.

I have some .22 LR that I have been experimenting with. They are lead and will be useful for conceptual testing.

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one by Charlie Kelsey back 20 years ago or so. He came up with pretty much the same design with the flutes. He was a good friend and sent us a big box of the bullets to test for penetration and such. They weren't a cast lead as they are too hard but I am not sure what they are.They don't look like any jacketed material I have seen before, maybe a zinc coating over lead? They are heavy and hard and we loaded them up to do the testing in a 454 Casull. Before we could finish the testing Charlie was killed. He was found in a ditch with a couple of bullet holes in his head. I still have the bullets and haven't done any more with them. But as far as I know all these swirl type bullets are a spin off of Charlie's bullet of 20 years or more ago.
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were made of a highly compressed powder that would be frangible if they hit something hard. Charlie wanted us to try them out on game animals. So they are not lead or jacketed.

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