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My best friend Tym years before this article, had hit the center Indian target dead square from a seated position with his #1 Enfield with factory ammo. Problem was, the following year, the bullets from the same rifle went wildly unstable and we could not even determine where they were hitting. So weather conditions played a big part that first time. This eventually led me on my search to create a load for my Savage Enfield that could repeatedly hit the target array there at 1538 yards. My 11mm Mauser with my heavyweight 505 grain bullet can do it well, even in terrible wind conditions. It was apparent to me that we would need a lot of work to make this goal possible with my Savage Enfield. Recently we have just about completed the adapter to mount my Jim Kelley Seoul Extra Long Range Staff that was incredibly expensive, but really looks amazing on the rifle and it will work at ranges beyond 1200 yards where the factory Vernier sight and loads begin to falter.
We need to cut a relief in the bottom of Randy''s adapter to clear the bolt lug when rotated up to pull the bolt out of the gun, but so far, the gun can function the action correctly with it mounted. The color case hardening and brass components on the staff really complimented the brass parts on my rifle.
Today, we reached an important milestone in this project. My new "heavy weight" 303 bullet design is completed by Todd Corter. I have named it the TC Torpedo for now (which can stand for Todd Corter or Tutt-Corter). It is 1.5 inches long, designed at a diameter of .315 that can be swaged down when lubed, and weighs 259 grains predicted at that size. It has an almost perfect 48.62/51.38 center of gravity and way better balanced than any Spitzer bullet. I ran it through again at 261 grains (It picked up 10 grains of weight in the latest revision from the 249 grain weight prototype) through both a Greenhill Calculator and Berger's Miller Formula Calculator using the factory 1:10 twist. It should work at our projected velocity of 1600 fps with Blue Dot (slower is better sometimes and why I needed the longer sight staff). I can also load this bullet to the same pressure with Varget and have it do 1900 fps predicted. This would make a dandy hunting load.
Here is the TC Torpedo:
Next, off the design goes to a mould maker, probably Tom at Accurate Moulds. From there to Matt at Matt's Bullets. Hopefully I can get some to test by Easter Break at FoBD.
I intend to make it available to anyone who wants to try it, and is partially the reason I had it designed over-sized at .315 so it can be swaged down to what someone else may need. I will probably have mine done at .314. My barrel is choked at .305 at the muzzle, so we narrowed and tapered the round nose from .302 to .301 to .30 so that part of the bullet is not touching the rifling. This is what they call a "bore rider" design. There is an extended 45 degree scraper grove just ahead of the front driving band and a cut behind it to relieve bore to barrel friction slightly and maybe provide a place for displaced lead to go. It should seat deep enough into the case where all the lube grooves are protected below. This is really meant to be a target load with no crimp, just an interference neck fit, and fired extra long COL in single shot mode, but it could be adapted to work as a magazine load for hunting too I suspect. We tried to leave enough bearing surface there in the front driving band to do that and seat it deeper. A Lee FCD could probably do the job for a crimp, or maybe a Redding Taper Crimp die, I will have to see. That's not what I am really designing it for right now? But will be the next logical step in the process. I tend to design my custom loads for long range target shooting first, and hunting purposes next. You can have both actually with some work and research.
I have to thank my friends who have been helping me with this project. The level of support has been crazy!
Mic McPherson with trigger job and help with bullet design and instruction using Quick Load over the years.
Todd Corter for bullet design with some input from me in length and front and rear bullet profile.
Randy Arnt for outstanding tight machine work and sight advice to make a rear sight adapter for the Kelley Seoul sight using the factory Savage base from 1942.
Jim Williamson for helping slug my bore when I screw up. I know just enough to be dangerous....
-Tutt
Funny thing, I remember an old timer telling me when I was 20 something that the older you get the people you used to think were old don't look so old.......I look at Tutt as a kid and Old Savage as old, like ancient. 
