jim4065
12-25-2007, 02:52 PM
Went shooting over the weekend with my son. I was firing the Beretta C4 40 S&W at bottles on a shale bank about 40 yards away. About 2 seconds after I fired the last shot in the clip a ricochet fell straight to the ground 5 feet away. The boolit showed rifling marks and some abrasion (very little) at the nose. It was a 175 gr truncated cone from Keads Bullets in Dallas, TX. Most of the lubricant was still in the groove, bright red - in other words the boolit was ready to be shot again. You could tell the base had been subjected to heat, but no gas cutting was apparent to my untrained eye.
Aside from the bizarre path the boollit must have traveled, it raises this question. These are really HARD CAST, yet I'm still getting a lot of leading in the first six inches of bore. Can the lube be failing because it is too hard? Or is the culprit more likely a matter of size - they arrived pre-sized and ready to shoot. Seeing all that lube still on the boolit is troubling, especially when I'm getting so much leading. Still have about 1000 of these left to shoot and I'm thinking about digging out the lube and replacing it with NRA 50/50.
Getting the lead out of the barrel is really a pain. I read a thread earlier where someone advised shooting it out with a condum. Will that really work? - sure would be both faster and cheaper.
Aside from the bizarre path the boollit must have traveled, it raises this question. These are really HARD CAST, yet I'm still getting a lot of leading in the first six inches of bore. Can the lube be failing because it is too hard? Or is the culprit more likely a matter of size - they arrived pre-sized and ready to shoot. Seeing all that lube still on the boolit is troubling, especially when I'm getting so much leading. Still have about 1000 of these left to shoot and I'm thinking about digging out the lube and replacing it with NRA 50/50.
Getting the lead out of the barrel is really a pain. I read a thread earlier where someone advised shooting it out with a condum. Will that really work? - sure would be both faster and cheaper.