View Poll Results: lead or jacketed pistol rounds
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lead, includes plated.
28 66.67% -
jacketed
14 33.33%
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Thread: cast lead or jacketed pistol rds
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January 10th, 2010, 05:27 PM #1
cast lead or jacketed pistol rds
what do you reload more of, in your pistol cartridges.
i shoot way more lead. right now it's actually about 100% lead.it's only metal, we can out think it....
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January 10th, 2010, 05:47 PM #2
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January 10th, 2010, 06:04 PM #3
Re: cast lead or jacketed pistol rds
Under 1100 fps, cast lead (45 acp, 9mm, 38 spl etc.)
Over 1100 fps, jacketed or cast lead with a gas check. (44 mag, 357 magnum & 357 maximum)
Rifle...jacketedThere are three kinds of people in this world....them what's good at math and them what ain't.
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January 10th, 2010, 06:21 PM #4
Re: cast lead or jacketed pistol rds
I've been casting for everything except .223 for years now. I have several guns that have never seen a jacketed bullet.
No way I could afford the various shoot and move games I play if I had to buy jacketed.
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January 10th, 2010, 08:44 PM #5Grand Member
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Re: cast lead or jacketed pistol rds
I cast for nearly everything I shoot. (5.56, 32ACP & 25ACP are the excetions). Pistol & rifle both.
I haven't done a lot of competition since 1980, but I've cast and shot prob a ton of lead from 1966 to 1986. In the last 20 yrs, maybe half that.
Jacketed bullets do have their place, but if I had to buy jacketed for all my shooting, I would never have been able to afford even a quarter of the shooting I have done.
Flash"The life unexamined is not worth living." ....... Socrates
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January 10th, 2010, 10:33 PM #6
Re: cast lead or jacketed pistol rds
For the pistol plinking ammo - Lead
For the rifles - Jackets.
Nothing beats a cheap day at the range.
Brad
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January 11th, 2010, 09:21 AM #7
Re: cast lead or jacketed pistol rds
I mostly shoot my G17 so no lead ammo for that. I've looked at plated and found them more expensive than jacketed.
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January 11th, 2010, 12:21 PM #8
Re: cast lead or jacketed pistol rds
Mostly lead for the handguns.
Half and half for the rifles, only because I'm working on building up stock. Once I have a few ammo cans full it will tend to be more lead.Divided we ever have been, and ever must be.Two thirds always had and will have more difficulty to struggle with the one third than with all our foreign enemies. - John Adams
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January 11th, 2010, 04:47 PM #9
Re: cast lead or jacketed pistol rds
I carry with jacketed rounds and practice with them but mostly I cast my own and shoot more lead than anything. I am now loading up some of my cast .223(.224dia).
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January 14th, 2010, 11:02 AM #10Super Member
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Re: cast lead or jacketed pistol rds
Mostly lead. I cast 9MM, 38/357. And 45 ACP. In the 380 and 40 S&W its Barry plated bullets. I don’t shoot the 380 enough to justify a Lyman mold. And the 40 is a Glock 22 factory barrel. Still up in the air on the Glock as to a Barrel change. Or keep shooting the Berrys.
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