I bought a 500gn mold from Accurate Molds about a months ago. It's there #50-500A
http://www.accuratemolds.com/b...bullet=50-500A-D.png
I asked for .502" and the bullets drop at .503" but size down to .501" easy enough. The mold was listed as 500 grains, but the bullets cast from wheel weights drop at 493 grains. The bullet is 1.00" long with a .4" nose. I cut a case down the side to measure the thickness and it looked like it was going to be pretty close on wether it would work or not. With the bullets seated to 1.8" there is just a little bulge at the base of the bullets that measured .534", the chamber is .533". So I ran the loaded rounds part way into a 50AE sizer die to just kiss the base of the bullet a little and they chambered just fine.
For load data, I compared the published data for 400s and 440s, then put some numbers into Quickload and everything looked reasonable, so I went ahead and loaded some today and fired the starting charges.
I used 18.4gn of WC820 with a CCI Mag pistol primer, Quickload said that it should be going about 900fps from my 5.25" bbl. The starting load should have been around 18kpsi.
My Chrono is lost in a box somewhere from our move, so I couldn't confirm the velocity.
Recoil was abit stiff and felt about like shooting 400s at 1250fps.
Looking at Quickload I should be able to get 1100fps with 22gns of WC820. Ramshot Enforcer and 2400 should be able to do 1200fps while staying under 50kpsi.
I'm not going to shoot any of the hotter loads until I can find the chrono just so that I can confirm that things are where they should be.

What is the story on that revolver???

That is the most unique barrel on a revolver I have seen...

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Originally posted by N E 450 No2:
What is the story on that revolver???

That is the most unique barrel on a revolver I have seen...

Looks like a BFR with their version of octagon

Yes it is Magnum's version of an octagon barrel.
I think I would have prefered it to be completly octagon, but it works.
I bought it as a 50AE and sent it back for the 500JRH cylinder and a new shorter barrel.
Here are some more pics of it.

I like how it looks!!!!

Glenn, I want to try some of those!

I kind of thought that you might. PM me your address again and I'll put some in the mail.

PM on the way!