I too see no benefit with a spitzer in the 405. To me the rifle is a 150 yard +/- proposition so the advantages of the spitzer for long range shooting are not applicable to the application, but that is me. I prefer to dump as much bullet energy into my target as quickly as possible, so I prefer the soft point flat meplat. I have modified many 400 grain Woodleigh softpoints to do just that. There effect on wood is, splintering. This kind of performance in wood typically indicates that the bullet will generate massive tissue trauma on a game animal, which results, again typically, in a quick death. At least that has been my personal experience.

Now to specifically answer the gentleman's question. No I haven't tried the new Hornady 0.411", 300 grain Spitzer. My experience with the Hornady 0.411", 300 grain Flat Point left me cold, as these bullets exploded in cedar at muzzle velocities over 2250 fps +/-. Not good in my opinion.

ASS_CLOWN

Has anyone tried the new pointed softpoint bullets from Hornady. Was wondering how accuracy was compared to the round nose design.
I have both a Ruger #1 and a Winchester 95. The 95 is at the smiths now having a Decellorator pad put on...the steel was a little much without using a Past Pad. I just dicovered I had a box of the soft points and don't know as of yet whether or not they will fit in the magazine of the Winchester.

Bob

Using my standard load of 54.0 grain of 3031 in my stainless #1, the RN Hornady 300 actually groups better than the SP (I'm with everyone else on this one....spire points in the .405 don't do much for me).

Lee Martin
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I've shot the Hornady 300-gr SP in my .450/400-3". It's an accurate bullet with groups around 1" for 3-5 shots at 100 yards. Chronographed velocity was 2475 fps. While far from a max. load in the .450/400, this load exceeds conventional .405 velocities and the bullets seem to disintegrate upon contact with the clay backstop at the rifle range.
Roger

RJM
I bought a box of 500 blems from Midsouth to tinker with. These bullets are the spitzer soft points, rather then the round nose. I've found them to be reasonably accurate, they function and fed thru the rifle well.
Personally, I don't see the 405 as a jacketed bullet rifle! Anything a jacketed bullet can do, a cast bullet can do likewise. I've got two moulds that I'm working with, one is a custom from Mountain Molds throwing a 350 grain round nose and the other is from NEI and I have not attached the NEI mold to the handles as yet.
There's a hand full of my 350 gr bullets in Africa right now being used. So far, I only know about a warthog being downed with the bullet.
So far I've not found a bad load for this rifle, either the jacketed or the cast.
Jim

Here's the jacketed and cast bullets.
Jim

LoneEagle

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I could not agree with you more! I worked out the design using the really nifty design software at Mountain Molds for my 350 grain bullet. I could not be happier with the mold or the resulting bullet.
I am practicing for a hunt in Africa next April so I'm shooting 50 or 60 rounds every other weekend off hand, at targets out at 100, 150, 200 yards with the occasional 250-300. This last distance I'm not really sure what the distance is. The bullet seems to take a while to get there.
Jim

I can't see the need for the pointed bullet in the .405. It is certainly not going to make it a long range rifle. Nor would want to try making my .405 a long range hunter. I like flat faces on big bore game bullets. It's like using Barnes Spitzer X bullets in a 45-70. Sean