What is a bore-riding bullet?
A bullet designed so that the front section ahead of the driving bands is riding on the tops of the lands offering support and better alignment. Also, John Rigby developed a bullet around 1870 that was entirely bore diameter and relied on upset from the powder charge to grab the rifling and seal the gas behind it. This proved to be the most successful muzzle-loaded bullet in history as far as accuracy is concerned, and it was easy to load too. We have experimented with this design and found that by reverse tapering the driving bands (small at the base to near groove diameter at the front), accuracy is improved even further. Franklin Mann found that bore-diameter bullets worked the best in his extensive tests during the writing of The Bullets Flight from Powder to Target.
