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rockbronco said:
^^^ This is going to be the new law of the land...
Ammo Shortage Expected to Last into 2021
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^^^ This is going to be the new law of the land...
I haven't checked yet but I bet the auction final prices on gunbroker starting this week will be epic!
Been reading on a couple of other forums guys saying .. "I just wont pay 90 cents a round when I was buying it for $15 a box"
Should have bought a baseball bat. Makes a better bludgeon.
I remember being able to get on a city bus for a quarter and making a phone call for a dime ... things change. this one is going to hurt.
Been reading on a couple of other forums guys saying .. "I just wont pay 90 cents a round when I was buying it for $15 a box"
Should have bought a baseball bat. Makes a better bludgeon.
I remember being able to get on a city bus for a quarter and making a phone call for a dime ... things change. this one is going to hurt.
Ballistic Therapy
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I remember when gas went up to 50 cents a gallon.
I said if it ever went to $1.00 a gallon I would quit driving.
Now I have the dilemma of how high ammo has to go before I quit shooting.
I said if it ever went to $1.00 a gallon I would quit driving.
Now I have the dilemma of how high ammo has to go before I quit shooting.
iammaxwell
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Makes it impossible to try any new calibers. Just have to be grateful for what I've already got, I guess.
Flash said:
I've tried plated bullets in the past but never liked them. But in retrospect, some of my reasons for preferring jacketed aren't as important when supply is in the state it is. Maybe it's time to look at coated again. At least for 9mm & maybe 45. Other calibers are lower volume so I'm not as concerned.
High Standard
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Abbey said:
I was in the same camp as you. I didn’t like plated bullets. And to some extent I still don’t. I found 1k Speer Plated 9mm 115 gr CPRN bullets at Powder Valley and scooped them up. They were inexpensive enough. They were the only 9mm bullets I could find at that time. Like many many years ago I started having issues with them right away. Biggest problem is the copper plating separating from the lead core. Mostly in my revolver. I am not pushing them too hard. With that said I also purchased Berries Bullets and XTreme Bullets later on which are plated and I have had zero problems and am having good luck with them.
Now, I also bought 115gr Powder Coated bullets from DG based on a recommendation from a user here. And with those I have had a unique issue. I shoot my 9mm out of a Glock 17 Gen 2, a Sig P228 and a Smith & Wesson 547. I have never loaded 9mm PC bullets before. With the PC bullets, for the first time I had failure to feed issues with my Glock on 2 different loads and a failure to feed on 1 load for my Sig which was a different load than the 2 for my Glock. So the challenge was to find a single loading that worked for both guns that also hit to POA (or thereabouts). I tried 2 different charges of Titegroup, Bullseye, Unique, Red Dot and Green Dot. And what worked fine at the higher charge did not work at the lower charge and vice versa. And as bad luck would have it some of the loads didn’t hit close enough to POA for my taste. It turns out I had the best luck with Green Dot and I have been quite happy with the results. On top of my two guns they also worked flawlessly in my nephew’s S&W Shield and Sig 365. I use Green Dot predominantly in my 30 cal reduced rifle loadings. So it was interesting to see that Green Dot worked best for 9mm coated bullets in both of my semis when I have never liked Green Dot for 9mm before. In my 9mm revolver the Speer bullets had the worst time with the plating separation. The bullets never keyholed. But plating separation was worse in my revolver. The coated bullets shoot fine with all loadings I tried in the revolver except for some hitting to POA. Now that I am casting my own boolits and powder coating them I feel confident that they will work flawlessly with the right load.
In summary I had a fun and interesting time with the PC bullets as I never had a failure to feed before in either my Glock or Sig. And to find that a powder I never liked for 9mm worked the best generally in all my guns with the PC bullets was also interesting. I almost didn’t load any Green dot loads except I always have the attitude of “You never know unless you try”.
In the meantime I have been finding FMJ 124gr bullets available from Xtreme Bullets lately and I have been buying them as I free up a little extra funds for bullets. They look as good as any other FMJ I have ever purchased. I have not loaded them yet but I expect they will shoot similarly to the Montana Gold and Sierra bullets I am used to buying.
I hope this information is helpful to you.
hairygreek
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+1 agreedsmithers599 said:
For coated, I see a lot of positive comments about Blue Bullets, Bayou, and Black Bullets International. Maybe I’ll give one of them a try.
For plated, I’ve used Berry’s and Ranier in the past and thought they were a little more finicky to load (have to bell the case more than I typically do), and dirtier. And they didn’t seem as consistent as jacketed so I’ve only loaded FMJ or JHP for the last 10-15 years.
For plated, I’ve used Berry’s and Ranier in the past and thought they were a little more finicky to load (have to bell the case more than I typically do), and dirtier. And they didn’t seem as consistent as jacketed so I’ve only loaded FMJ or JHP for the last 10-15 years.