A lot of it came from Veral Smith, the brains behind LBT, or Lead Bullet Technologies. Ross Seyfried swore by LBT designs when the whole 5-shot .45 Colt craze was getting off the ground.

I bought an LBT Long Flat Nose Gas Check mould for a 325-grain .452" slug about 10 years ago. Bullets from it were extremely accurate, but it kicked about like a 155mm howitzer, so I went back to standard weight slugs.

Elmer Keith asked for a 250-grain slug at 1,200 fps because it just flat worked.


Okie John