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silverado
05-04-2015, 07:53 PM
Tula works well in a very tight chambered 1911 I have, and wanted to take some measurements to, well, have garage time mostly..... I pulled the bullet and got about 4.6 grains of powder in it (used inertia puller, may be off on the charge ) but the appearance through me off. Seems like 2 different colored powders, a grey and a brown. Also the j word measured 0.4500 to 0.4505, which I guess why it works fine and my 0.451 bullets wont. Also the 230 grain j word was 228.4.... I think they are trying to cheat me out of some lead haha.138706

runfiverun
05-05-2015, 01:01 PM
turn all the green/grey ones over, I bet they are black on the other side.
4.6-4.8 grs puts the powder in the red-dot/bulls-eye area.

silverado
05-05-2015, 11:01 PM
I threw th powder away already, but it definitely seemed odd... here is a more detailed picture that I took. http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/05/05/0f372a92f9fcfa1beb16bfe98bd15a60.jpg

Goatwhiskers
05-06-2015, 08:10 AM
No telling what's in foreign ammo. I pulled some surplus 8mm ammo, the stuff inside looked like very roughly crushed charcoal. Needless to say it fed the flowers. GW