That's my first impression.I bet it was a hollow base not point .
Here is a blog article on the maker, as I understand it from several articles I've read, this was his homage to the Manstopper round and the dies were custom made for that purpose.That's my first impression.
The shape and depth of the cavity looks to be a hollow base. I think that's a nose pour mold for a hollow base wadcutter.
Sorry about that, I'm "that" guy. I bought a few hundred mold sets, a couple of hundred die sets, and a wide variety of other things. The auction doors opened up at 8:00 am and I walked out at midnight with the auction still going on. I've been going through them for 2 months selling off duplicates and most of the aluminum molds. I haven't even started on any of the truly weird stuff, like everything for reloading 14 Jones, sizing tools for the 14.5x32.5 Austria RF, or dozens of other obscure pieces. The NRA was gifted with most of his firearms collection (Worth millions), but some of the stuff they left behind should be in a museum. I am setting aside a ton of literature, notes, and specialty tooling and at some point, I will try to get it into a firearms museum that wants to display it.A lucky fellow indeed! A lot of Bobs stuff ended up on ebay. I almost bought his .32 Colt HB mould, but was too slow the last time around.
I intended to buy it.
I read that article and there's no doubt about his talent but there's also no evidence that is a hollow point as opposed to a hollow base.
The lube grooves are on the wrong end of the bullet for it to be a wadcutter. The grooves are at the square base end of the bullet, not the (slightly) rounded end which also includes the cavity. Though I'm not an authority, I've yet to see a bullet with lube grooves at the nose, but not the base, except for outside lubricated designs like the 32, 38, and 41 Colt designs. The lube grooves would be inside the case with an inside lubricated design, and there is no sign of a step for an outside lubricated design.I read that article and there's no doubt about his talent but there's also no evidence that is a hollow point as opposed to a hollow base.
I stand correctdThe Hayley Man-Stopper. - Free Online Library
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Thank you.It is one of the 1873 series Maynard rifle. They were made as the best target rifles of the 1870's and used world wide as hunting rifles for long range shooting of game.