Is this for game shooting?
How did you get on with them ? Are they capable of comparable accuracy to conventional copper jacketed types ? Are they fussy to load with ?
Also, long shot, does anyone have a dimension drawing of one in .308 ?
Is this for game shooting?
I've heard of these ones
https://www.barnesbullets.com/bullets/banded-solids/
Not by me.
I'm wondering if there will be a ban on lead bullets and as I have a sliding head lathe, commonly known as a swiss automatic lathe, suitable to make this kind of thing by the thousands I was thinking of trying it.
Swiss automatic lathe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zymiEXw6jZU
Some dimension info you’ll find here
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig3_279961452
BTW not all ranges allow mono metallic bullets ,Bisley certainly has restrictions on their use but I’m not sure what other ranges do.
Regards
James
That's interesting, as a kid I used to search the rifle backstops at a local military range and found many .303 / 7.62 size heads almost undamaged. Many more were slightly flattened and bent like bananas. I wonder why a solid copper bullet would be worse.
The metal target frames were all clad in wood, to stop splash, perhaps copper would be more dangerous to the butt crew.
I just looked at the latest range regulations on the NRA site, re Bisley.
" Lead-free mono-metallic bullets may be used during specific events that are controlled and planned by the NSC. They are otherwise forbidden."
So, perhaps things are moving in the direction of allowing solid copper bullets in future ?
https://nra.org.uk/nra-bisley/ranges...%20items...%20
I do not understand why solid copper bullets would be more of a problem than fmj. What are the reasons for the restrictions? Copper in the soil would be less dangerous than lead...?
amc577
I assume all spent bullets are contained in the backstops and the lead or copper would not be a danger to the public, so I remain unsure of why the NRA do not permit solid copper bullets.
amc577