I authored this thread and got no response:
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=536470
If you don't care to click, it's for an oddball commercially plated bullet that I know very little about... judging by the responses it got
, nobody else knows about it either. And to further judge, given my experience with it, it's a best kept secret that should be kept secret!
I really should update the thread with what I found, but the bottom line for the purpose of this post is that those are 9mm slugs that I just do NOT like in 9mm so I've been loading them in .38 Special for the select purpose of dropping steel plates for fun. (psssst: these bullets could loosely be defined as JUNK)
I haven't put them on paper to see how accurate they are or are not, but they slap steel all day long and I don't feel handicapped using them. Since I bought EIGHT THOUSAND, it seems like a fine way to rid myself of them.
I can't load them in to R-P headstamp brass because I don't get reliable case mouth tension/bullet pull on them. They also don't shoot well in a J-frame for the same reason, just not much bullet pull to keep them seated in the brass. There's only so much you can do with a roll crimp. They are one-thousandth under-sized for use in .38 Special.
So I tend to load them in Win, Fed or Speer headstamp non-nickel brass and I load them over 4.8 grains of Bullseye (124 grain plated 9mm slugs here) and they go bang every time and steel falls almost every time.
Shooting steel plates is a lot of fun and it's a different skill (when transitioning quickly) but it's somewhat lazy shooting for a guy who grew up shooting small groups and little else. I don't expect these loads are anything that anyone would chase down and WANT
but they do allow me to get some grins while I eat through a supply of craptastic bullets.
When you spend some coin on a load of bullets that end up being crappy, any GOOD shooting you get from them almost seems like FREE shooting for a supply of junky stuff you otherwise wouldn't get your money out of. That's
circular reasoning, perhaps, but in the end... I'm
shooting and smiling so I suppose not all is lost.
Mostly shot at 10-15 yards on steel through a 4-inch S&W Model 10-10 HB with RB frame, a former Ohio DOC issued revolver that looks like hell and shoots like an absolute
dream. Also flung downrange by any myriad of .357 revolvers that might make the same range trip.