9.3-

I've been fiddling with a rifle for the last week or so, nailing the books looking for the right period bullet for it.
One thing that's come up is a short conical with a hollowpoint (as per maker, documented/seen/etc in maker's kit with similar rifles of the period)

A friend sent me a (paradox type) mould the other day to play around with, he'd gotten it for a similar rifle, but the bullet weight was just too much for his rifle as-cast.
He's asked that I look at either setting it up as a hollow-point mould or setting up to hollow-point the bullets cast from it in a second operation.

'Tis indeed funny you'd say that right about now...

--Tinker