what to do with cast .355?

[injuredminnow]

I'm new to reloading so when I bought 500 cast 9mm boolits from a local gun shop, I didn't think to mike them ahead of time. After cleaning out severe leading from 3 guns, I miked them and sure enough, they come to .355. Why on earth would a gun shop drop 147 grain .355 projectiles? What should I do with these? I can't return them as I purchased 2 years ago. Can I bump them up?

Thanks,
Brett

[MtGun44]

I have several thousand of these, useless lumps IMO. I use mine
as 'seasoning' in a pot with range lead to improve the casting and
hardness a bit if I am not looking for extra soft boolits.

Bill

[williamwaco]

I have several thousand of these, useless lumps IMO. I use mine
as 'seasoning' in a pot with range lead to improve the casting and
hardness a bit if I am not looking for extra soft boolits.

Bill

Ditto.

You have been "had". The only thing they are good for is raw material.

[rintinglen]

Yeah, been there; done that.

You can try to bump them up, provided that they are not too hard for your lubrisizer, but failing that, all they are good for is adding antimony to soft alloy when you cast. I have the remnants of a box of 45-70 boolits that I use for that and for the same reason. The .457 boolits are undersized for my Marlin and leaded the bore like crazy.

[runfiverun]

some of the old colt and S&W target revolvers had 354 barrels.
you could maybe find one of those for about 900 bucks or make boolits from them.

[Green Lizzard]

they make good ingots and you wont have to flux

[uscra112]

I made that same mistake. I made a bump die for my regular press. Didn't actually make a silk purse from the sow's ear, but they shot well enough for practice and didn't lead the gun.

[Shiloh]

What Mtgun44 said. Thats all they are good for.

They would rattle down a bore and lead it up in a hurry. That is unless you have a seriously undersized bore.
Sweetening range scrap would be a good use.

SHiloh

[alfloyd]

You could run them thru a 38 cal swagging die and make a larger boolit.
The lube grooves will still be there with lube in them.
I have done that with some boolits that I wanted bigger.

Lafaun

[fcvan]

Brett, you could put on some plain based gas checks and resize to the correct diameter. That will bump them so to speak. I'll send you a PM