Semisane
I hope and I really do hope - that you noticed #5 in the group - or really out of the group... And you know I was thinking.... What I am thinking now is I am going to stop using numbers and start using the alphabet... I do not know what the 5th letter is and I do not want to know...
shooting those precision made bullets and getting them all fouled up with powder and banged up hitting things. They're just too pretty to do that sort of thing to.
See - I thought of the same thing! I hate shooting them at nothing but paper... thank gosh!! Dave furnishes a handful of each bullets to be tested. It is after the testing is done that they start getting expensive. You have to order bullets from his outlet, operated by his niece Amanda and she has no clue who I am. but she does add a nice note to each invoice - thank you for your purchase...
I never would have expected a hollow base brass bullet to get a proper gas seal.
Me neither when I first suggested maybe a sabotless I was sure they would be copper. But, he knows a whole lot more than I do about metals. It really does seem to be working as designed + brass is a self lubricating metal - member reading that someplace - so it is really easy on the bore.
I really thought the cup would split/crack as it was forced wider - but they sure work good.
In the back of my mind - I really fear the
'Lead Ban' - I know the educated folks out there are going to get it through at some point and we will be forced to an alternative... it might be one state at a time but with California and few others caving in - it is coming... I read in the paper the other day, they are even after fishing sinkers...
Speer just went through the same thing as the government ruled that you can not use a hunting bullet as a 'Home Defense' bullet and since the Gold Dot was/is a main stay of a lot of police forces... the Gold Dot to them will retain the same name and be built different and the Deep Curl will be the hunting line....