Here are a couple of sample targets that I shot with Bridger Bullets brass solids, nose style no. 3, 300 grains, at 100 yards with my 375 H&H model 70. The bullets are displayed at www.bridgerbullets.com

500grains,

That cutting shoulder is sure evident on the results of the #3 bullet. What action is your .375 built on, and did you have any trouble with magazine feeding with these bullets?

thanks...jim

It's a model 70 classic stainless and it feeds the bullets perfectly and slick.

My 458 win mag feeds nose style no. 3, but will hang slightly from time to time, so I will probably go with nose no. 4 for that rifle.

My 500 nitro feeds all the nose shapes.

I have severall hundred of them in 375 and 416, they have fed well in all my rifles...I have the stright simi wad cutter looking bullet without a radius cut..#3 I think....My guns are well tweeked to feed however...I am thinking the cutting shoulder is going to be the secret of the Brider bullet as I have suggested this feature and even on this very board for about the last 5 years..I have pushed for this feature and it always landed on deaf ears and was challanged on this board as not being a factor in killing power...I disagreed then and I do today, it is a factor in that it cuts a hole in skin as it does in paper and lets a lot of blood out...so now we will see...I will be shooting Buffalo with this bullet this year in Tanzania.

500grains

Those are some very good groups. Thanks for posting them.

I've emailed you a solution for your 458 that keeps a cutting shoulder but may help with the feeding.

Ray

The bullets you have are the exact same nose as 500grains' bullets except you have the 270 gr .375 cal and these are 300gr bullets.

I agree completely with you on the leaking effect of a cutting shoulder. I have shot several bison with the #3 nose and a cutting shoulder. You can see the blood on them within seconds of a hit. Anyone who has shot or seen how thick the hair and hide are on these animals can appreciate the quantity of blood need before it is evident on the hide.

A brief example: Last fall I watched as a hunter shot a 1-1/2 year old cow with a 340 Wby, I think the bullet was a 250 gr Nosler PT but am not absolutely certain of that. The shot was a neck shot that went a bit high and the animal ran off taking the rest of the heard with it. It took over an hour to see enough blood to be certain which was the wounded cow. A postmortem showed the wound had completely closed. If it hadn't been a sunny day I think we would not have sorted it out before night.

This is not a slight on the Nosler bullet. Shot placement was the critical error. If that shot had been delivered on the shoulder or had hit the spine it would have been over very quickly. My point is that the same hit with a bullet with a cutting shoulder and the wound would bleed and not close up. We would have been able to more quickly find and dispatch the wounded animal. JMHO

Your cutting shoulder reminds me very much of the Elmer Keith 429 mold which he touted so often. I have several hundred left as put out by the Markel company as well as several hundred in 41 mag. I am preparing to place an order for your bullets for my 458 and 416.
Great shooting on those targets! What sights are you using on the big bores?
Frank

500grains,

Great shooting. Looks like you have a keeper there (both rifle and load).

Jim

John,

Which nose style would you recommend for a .416 Rigby in a Ruger M77?

I would like to order some of your 400 grain .416 bullets with nose shape #3, but I am concerned about feeding problems.

Any advice?

Thanks.

Tim

Tim,

There are in reality very few cases of a feeding problem using the #3 nose. The ones I have seen so far have been usually related to hang up on the cutting shoulder not on the nose.
This is the case with 500grains' 458 posted above. Changing the nose profile and leaving the cutting shoulder will not solve a feeding problem like that described. The solution is to do some polishing on the rails and ramp to get it to feed or eliminate the cutting shoulder. I am also working on another option but it is untested so not a viable option at this point. The #4 nose is a straight taper truncated cone to bore diameter. I do not have it up on the website yet as I have to finalize the design for all of the calibers before I do that.
If you look under the topic �600 OK developments� you will see a picture at the top of that topic which shows 4, 600OK cases. The one captioned, as �custom� is the #4 nose.

I�ve sent you a PM.

To clarify the feeding issue, my 458 win mag was NOT set up by a big bore expert so I had to have the feeding adjusted by using a custom made follower. With a properly set up rifle, there will be no feeding issue. Nose #3 does not have any feeding problems at all in my father's cz550 416 rigby.