Mike, that is why I tie a good twine to the Blinder pin and tie it off to my shooting tripod. Have come close a few times to shooting the false muzzle downrange. My Pope has the witness scribe for loading rod length. The Pope .32-40 Molds I have used and worked on all seem to throw a 193 to 198 gr Bullet. In Winchester barrels these weights are right on the edge of stability. Lot of Tip at 200 Yds. I traded a SAECO 32-40 mold that was near copy of a Pope and he shot it well in a Stevens, again with tip. Then he got a Winchester Schuetzen and he reported that he would occasionally get a shot flat sideways at 200 yds. So I looked his bullets over. Now the Pope I shoot measures exactly 1.000" overall length. His Measured 1.050 and weighed in at 210 Grs. So I took his mold and faced .050" off the base band end and rebored the base to cast a .324 Diameter base band. He now reports it shoots better and tips less and gets no more sideways bullets. I have begun to wonder if some of the tipping we see at 200 yds is instability or the bullet going from supersonic to subsonic. It is known that at that point the bullet goes through some serious wobble. Well all for now. Regards, FITZ
