cant seem to find a consensus if this bullet will run in an ar15 reliably as a soft hp. I don't need a hard solid bullet as the rcbs 130 does that perfectly well.
cant seem to find a consensus if this bullet will run in an ar15 reliably as a soft hp. I don't need a hard solid bullet as the rcbs 130 does that perfectly well.
I don't run it in the AR-15, but in a bolt action, Rem 700. The tip of the bullet at the HP is thin and fragile. I can see it possibly being damaged in an AR-15, but I honestly don't know how it would perform. It is pointy enough that it should feed fine, but it is also a short bullet and that may hinder or change the feed characteristics.
How do your jacketed bullets in that weight range feed in your AR-15? What alloy do you plan to run? Plain base or GC? If I had everything organized, I'd be happy to cast you some. I don't think I have any GC HP bullets cast at the moment. If I did, they'd be plain base for subsonic use.
I really like the 311-410 deep hollowpoint at 1050 fps out of range lead or 50/50 WW/PB. They do open up at subsonic velocities based upon a few recoveries I have.
But to answer your question, I don't know.
Brad
I tried it. Nose would dig into feed ramp. The only way I could get it to run was to hot glue the HP and leave a small ball on the top. It worked rather well but was more fiddling around than I liked.
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BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |