This is the home of Black River Bullet, we specialize in cast Keith Style bullets. Our bullets are cast using Lyman and Ballisti Cast Keith style molds.
Most semi-wad cutter bullets today are called "Keith" bullets, but the design is not correct. A true Keith bullet has a long nose with a large meplat. But more importantly these bullets have a wide square cornered driving band, a deep crimp grove, and a wide deep lubrication groove. These grooves will all have sharp square corners, with the driving band, body band, lube groove and base all the same width. Bullets of this design will typically be longer than modern commercial semi wadcutters with more of the bullet outside the case.
SPECIALIZING IN KEITH STYLE BULLETS
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Elmer Keith designed his semi-wadcutters to have 3 driving bands of equal width (he felt very strongly about a full-width forward driving band), a deep, "square-cut" grease groove, a beveled crimp groove, a wad-cutting shoulder, a gently curved ogive for stable long-range flight and a hearty meplat to generate dependable, open wound channels. Three sizeable and well-spaced driving bands combine to provide lots of bearing surface to keep the bullet aligned in the cylinder throat, the full-width forward driving band provides positive engagement as the bullet transitions between the cylinder and barrel and starts to be engraved.
Our bullets follow Elmer's design. They are made from the finest lead available.
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