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These two pics are of the bullets I use in my 1871 built Husqvarna (Swedish) rolling block .50-70 rifle. The "redesigned" one was recovered from our club's bullet trap. The other is of course fresh from casting and measures .515.
The fired one is not only barrel swaged down to .506 and hexagonal, but curiously stretched as well! You can clearly see it's taller than the fresh bullet. It has lost no weight at all.
Now you'd think that a bullet that's so bashed around wouldn't hit the proverbial but it'll shoot a 4 shot, 2.3 inch group at a measured hundred yards.
There's still a few of Wile. E Coyote's ideas that I haven't tried yet.