Excellent. A perfect addition to the complexity element. However, a caution. Using dental tools should only be used in conjunction with a spinning Tibetan prayer wheel.
Thank you. I was hoping for your blessing, Master.
The spinning Tibetan prayer wheel is an unfair addition, however.
I did follow up on your two suggested leads, Superior and Barnes.
Lonnie at Superior got right back to me at lunch time today: "Most of them started out as .408", later they began to use .410-.411 inch [I think he means later as in Nitro Express]"
David Little at Kynoch wrote to me earlier this year that he thought it was a .408" standard for the BPE.
As soon as I got the gun and slugged the bores, Accurate Molds made me a paper patch mold at .408. Have not yet poured any bullets from it, but it is probably time. My sense is these will have to be sized down to .407" and then paper patched up to .408" It is, after all, a Lancaster oval bore. Kind of the Tibetan prayer wheel of rifling
