Electronrider
Sharpshooter
Last fall at Knob Creek my cousin and I got a great deal on .224 55gr pulled bullets.
I sat down and sorted through these bullets, and have 2 piles:
1 pile of good looking projectiles. These have minor to no damage to the projectile at all, they look really good to me. They feel nice and concentric when you roll em in your fingers, or at most you will feel a slight out of round feeling. This composes roughly 2/3 rds of total count
1 The rejects so far. About 1/2 of this pile is really bad, there is definite flat spots on the sides of the projectiles, looks like whatever pulled these were over tensioned perhaps? The other half of the pile is out of round enough that they did not make the cut for pile above. If I were a little less concerned about quality, they would have made the first pile.
Having never owned or used the kinds of projectiles, I'm not sure what quality is to be expected. Even when I factor in the rejects, we still got a great deal on them,so I'm not desperate to use em.
I guess my question is how out of round can a projectile be before you should not try to load it and shoot it?
I know that these are not going to be match rounds or anything, but I will be working up a load regardless. These projectiles would probably be used for general plinking, so I am not too awful worried, but would certainly like to pull a decent group with them.
Thoughts?
I sat down and sorted through these bullets, and have 2 piles:
1 pile of good looking projectiles. These have minor to no damage to the projectile at all, they look really good to me. They feel nice and concentric when you roll em in your fingers, or at most you will feel a slight out of round feeling. This composes roughly 2/3 rds of total count
1 The rejects so far. About 1/2 of this pile is really bad, there is definite flat spots on the sides of the projectiles, looks like whatever pulled these were over tensioned perhaps? The other half of the pile is out of round enough that they did not make the cut for pile above. If I were a little less concerned about quality, they would have made the first pile.
Having never owned or used the kinds of projectiles, I'm not sure what quality is to be expected. Even when I factor in the rejects, we still got a great deal on them,so I'm not desperate to use em.
I guess my question is how out of round can a projectile be before you should not try to load it and shoot it?
I know that these are not going to be match rounds or anything, but I will be working up a load regardless. These projectiles would probably be used for general plinking, so I am not too awful worried, but would certainly like to pull a decent group with them.
Thoughts?
