fatelk
05-06-2020, 02:17 AM
I wasn't sure where to put this, since these are not cast bullets. If a moderator feels there's a better sub forum for this, please move it there. Thank you.
I bought a bunch of these little plastic .30 cal bullets, probably 10 years ago, or more. They were super cheap when I got them, surplus foreign pull-down of some kind, plastic with a copper base. I tinkered with them a few times, never found much use for them, never really worked up a load that shot for beans or practical in any way.
Recently I ended up with a bunch of old, primed 30-30 brass. I bought a bunch of unknown reloads at a gun show for next to nothing a while back, and pulled them down for components. What to do with the old tarnished brass with unknown primers? 5 grains of Bullseye and a 19gr plastic bullet; let's see what this does.
Must have been a magic load. They shoot in practically the same hole at 25 yards, out of a Winchester 30-30. No idea how fast they're going, since the load was a wild guess, but I think they're moving right along. I saw several of the spent bullets on top of the gravel berm, plastic shredded. They're louder than a .22lr, but of course zero recoil. My daughter liked shooting them, and in the lever action they function perfect. I think it will be a fun lever-gun load for blasting tin cans.
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I bought a bunch of these little plastic .30 cal bullets, probably 10 years ago, or more. They were super cheap when I got them, surplus foreign pull-down of some kind, plastic with a copper base. I tinkered with them a few times, never found much use for them, never really worked up a load that shot for beans or practical in any way.
Recently I ended up with a bunch of old, primed 30-30 brass. I bought a bunch of unknown reloads at a gun show for next to nothing a while back, and pulled them down for components. What to do with the old tarnished brass with unknown primers? 5 grains of Bullseye and a 19gr plastic bullet; let's see what this does.
Must have been a magic load. They shoot in practically the same hole at 25 yards, out of a Winchester 30-30. No idea how fast they're going, since the load was a wild guess, but I think they're moving right along. I saw several of the spent bullets on top of the gravel berm, plastic shredded. They're louder than a .22lr, but of course zero recoil. My daughter liked shooting them, and in the lever action they function perfect. I think it will be a fun lever-gun load for blasting tin cans.
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