by wildcatter » Sat Jun 11, 2011 11:01 am
The separation of plated jackets can sometimes occur in the barrel, causing serious trouble, further more I and others have seen the Blue Puff, ten-twenty yards out, as the bullet explodes, also on occasion. I have asked Rainer and some others to give us some heavily plated bullets, to no avail. I wanted a .050"+- jacket, at least, over hard lead. Barnes has been the only one to come through, their Busters are not plated, but real jackets and those jackets are .060" thick with a hard lead core, darn near the perfect 450b bullet. Now we need a light weight Buster.. Oh wait, aren't the 230gr FMJ's a Buster type, not nearly as thick of a jacket and only semi-hard lead, but in essence does the same job, albeit at high speeds (I'm operating in the 2500-2800fps area, these days)?..
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Safety First..t