Laser-cast Bullets Opinions

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Magnum Wheel Man

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this is the bullet I ordered, & if you read the description, you'll read that the alloy contains silver...

Werewolves beware...;)

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=977389

These hard cast bullets are made from a proprietary mixture of alloys and precious metals, including silver. This results in a harder bullet than pure lead that will withstand higher velocities without leaving excessive metal deposits in the barrel.
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mtnbkr

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Ok, I finally found the cite on Oregon Trail's site.

Silly "feature" if you ask me. You can get all the hardness you need in a bullet with tin, antimony, and arsenic. Most bullets are harder than they need to be anyway.

Chris
 
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Al Norris

Moderator Emeritus
In the last 18 months, Oregon trail has priced their bullets completely out of sight.

At $32/500 (.429 240g RNFP), I could afford them... And Did!!

Sadly, I'm down to my last couple of hundred. Gonna have to go to something else, I suspect.
 
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HiBC

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I have had very good luck with them.The 200 gr SWC's are great in a 1911 .45 acp.They work very well in full power .44 mag loads.
I believe the ones with the different name have gas checks on them.
As I understand,these were cooked up by some mining engineers who know their stuff about alloys.

Having said that,real hard is not always best.Sometimes a softer alloy is better,slugging up matters sometimes.Check into the black powder cartridge folks.

I have a fair amount of experience with wheelweight grade alloy.I can load full power .44 mag H-110 loads with no problem ,even in a rifle.
 
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salvadore

Moderator
just an aside from a caster who quit when machine cast were so cheap, firing up the lead pot is a good protest to the overpricing...The price of lead has dropped a lot.
 
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