Bog Myrtle & Peat

One or two readers have been in touch with me about an article I published on this site a few months ago about Bespoke Ballistics, a company run by my friend Richard Waller. For the sake of expanding what is quite an interesting and relevant subject, and with an eye to promote his new business a little further, I thought that a little more information wouldn’t hurt the overall content of “Working for Grouse”

Richard set up Bespoke Ballistics a few months ago after he discovered noticeable irregularities in mass produced “factory rounds”. Marksmen have known for years about the fact that major global bullet manufacturers are forced to cut down on high quality accuracy in order to make each mass produced bullet calibre fit every brand of firearm, but Richard’s solution is remarkably simple.

The basic service at Bespoke Ballistics involves submitting his customers’ rifles to in depth ballistic testing, conducting technical experiments to discover the precise powder loads, bullet weights and seating depths which work  best with that gun and that gun only.

The chamber of every rifle is subtly different, and maximising each rifle’s capacity for accuracy shows tremendous results, particularly when compared to “factory rounds”. Without wanting to sound like some boorish American advertising puppet, since I started using Richard’s bullets, I have been amazed by the improvements his bullets make to my long range accuracy.

With his own rifles (a Ruger M77 in .25-06 and a Ruger No. 1 in .22-250), he is by far and away the best rifle shot I have ever seen, and more than a little of that is down to the quality of his own hand-loaded bullets.

For more information, have a look at his website at –    http://www.bespokeballistics.co.uk/