As the name suggests this lead is designed purely for casting long distances the nose heavy design makes it very stable indeed and The lead is the brainchild of Alan Partridge an Old School angler well known in the higher echelons of carp fishing for his innovative thinking and his long range casting. He had ridiculed Danny for years saying my leads cast further than yours so one day Danny bit and said go on then prove it. So the two of them went over to a local big pit and Danny cast as far as he could with his original slender and pointed Distance Casting lead the slack was taken out and an elastic band was fitted tightly around the line before the lead was wound in. Dannys lead was taken off the lead clip and Alans was put on Danny again gave it the big un and pulled the elastic band straight off the spool plus about 30 yards of line!To add insult to injury Alan allowed Danny to put his style of lead back on and see if he could hit the elastic try as he might Danny could not match the distance so he had to use Alans design which has remained the same to this day!This is without Dannys favourite style of lead he says I love fishing at range in open water and building up a baited area fishing all 3 rods only feet apart the nose heavy shape of this lead means it flies straight as an arrow it just goes where you want it to go. For this type of fishing I couldnt think of using anything else!also keeps the lead condensed giving good hooking efficie