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    Good thing or bad thing.

    Had a few air soft pellets get stuck in my hollow points. Tests to follow.

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    I’m surprised they didn’t melt down the sides!

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    It looks interesting. Are those the plastic ones? I use them in shotshell loads for in house and fun loads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by birdadly View Post
    I’m surprised they didn’t melt down the sides!
    They were deeper in the hollow, guess they got pushed out a bit during baking.

    Yea they are standard plastic air soft bbs

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    My brother uses polymer self defense rounds that look that. If i am not mistaken the tipped hunting rounds work on the same princpe also. Just with a sharp tip. The idea is is wedges into the lead helping expansion.

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    what substance are you going to use them on for testing?

    signing up to see how this works out
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    Better watch it, you just copied the "Power Ball" load, Cor-Bon maybe ?
    I have a MiHec 45 acp mould with a ginormous HP (pretty much a copy of the Speer "flying ash tray"), this happens a lot.
    Doesn't hurt a thing, actually aided feeding in a friends picky 1911.
    I mostly pick them out. Don't want to buy more. lol
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    @Retumbo did you ever shoot those things? What happened?

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    How/what did the OP use to seat them in the case?

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    Plastic pellets ought to be ok. Not sure if the ATF would consider steel pellets armor piercing.

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    That right there is why I quit using BB's during PC. It was a great big pain. It seems to work just as well without em for me. Those bullets do look pretty cool though.

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