Question for Woodleigh shooters:

What is the difference in the regular soft nose and the Protected round point? Just thinking of getting some and trying it out for my 9.3. Also is there a woodleigh loading manual?

Ray:
I don't have any experience with the "hard bullets" (I've only run a few partitions through my Chapuis), but I can comment a bit on the 3031 "myth." I my opinion, it seems very plausible. Back when starting reloading for my 9.3 I did a bonehead move and made some loads that someone gave me recipes for the 9.3x74r with 3031. I of course started low and worked up. Well that was my intention. Even at reduced levels pressure was HIGH, extraction difficult, so after a two shells, I went lower, and extraction remained difficult. So I stopped. Then I looked back at Wright's book and saw what he wrote on 3031, and thought boy I was stupid for ignoring that since I thought he was only talking about problems with large bores.