26Charlie
01-14-2024, 09:25 PM
Intro: it’s cold, weather is wretched with snow, rain and ice here in mid coast Maine, and I’m old. So, I don’t get out to the shop to do reloading very much.
I know this is about cast bullets, but in consequence of the above, I started looking at what ammo can be bought, and there were complaints of scarcity, political turmoil, and possible shutdown of US manufacture ammo, over on the Politics thread. I posted an article about finding and buying .41 Magnum ammo, and then a range report on lever guns thread. Politics thread gets recycled and deleted as it ages, so my article there is gone now.
But in this spirit, I wanted to buy some ammo for two handguns, which I did, and finally shot them today, and give a range report.
Foreign manufacturers are delighted to make and sell ammo into the US. All I have seen so far is good, reloadable, brass cased ammo. I bought Aguila (Mexican) and Fiocchi (Italian). Costs about $22 a box of 50, plus shipping. Delivery 4 to 5 days. A hundred rounds (2 boxes) seemed enough.
.380 auto Husqvarna Swedish military bushed from .380 long to .380 Auto, when they came on the surplus market, back around 1962. Aguila .380 95 grain FMJ. Group 5 into 3.15” at 25 yds wrist rest.
.38 Special S&W model 10 4” barrel , fixed sight. Fiocchi .38 spl 158 grain JHP, 850 fps. Group 4 into 1.8” at 25 yds wrist rest, outliers at 8 and 12 o’clock due to poor light on sights.
Both guns grouped at point of aim. By the way, measuring to a twentieth of an inch, 0.05”, is easy with a draftsman’s engineer’s scale.
I know this is about cast bullets, but in consequence of the above, I started looking at what ammo can be bought, and there were complaints of scarcity, political turmoil, and possible shutdown of US manufacture ammo, over on the Politics thread. I posted an article about finding and buying .41 Magnum ammo, and then a range report on lever guns thread. Politics thread gets recycled and deleted as it ages, so my article there is gone now.
But in this spirit, I wanted to buy some ammo for two handguns, which I did, and finally shot them today, and give a range report.
Foreign manufacturers are delighted to make and sell ammo into the US. All I have seen so far is good, reloadable, brass cased ammo. I bought Aguila (Mexican) and Fiocchi (Italian). Costs about $22 a box of 50, plus shipping. Delivery 4 to 5 days. A hundred rounds (2 boxes) seemed enough.
.380 auto Husqvarna Swedish military bushed from .380 long to .380 Auto, when they came on the surplus market, back around 1962. Aguila .380 95 grain FMJ. Group 5 into 3.15” at 25 yds wrist rest.
.38 Special S&W model 10 4” barrel , fixed sight. Fiocchi .38 spl 158 grain JHP, 850 fps. Group 4 into 1.8” at 25 yds wrist rest, outliers at 8 and 12 o’clock due to poor light on sights.
Both guns grouped at point of aim. By the way, measuring to a twentieth of an inch, 0.05”, is easy with a draftsman’s engineer’s scale.