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Posted: 10/15/2012 1:40:26 PM EDT
| So I picked up 5k 55gr fmj bullets at knob creek this weekend for a great price. They are mechanical pulls. Some of these are U-G-L-Y ugly. As in oblong feeling instead of round. My cousin and I sorted through them and culled the worst of the lot into another pile. Other than less than stellar accuracy, are these projectiles safe to shoot? Do we need to resize them? We plan on reloading them in LC brass, with wc844 powder if that makes any difference. |
| I'd resize them using Lee's inexpensive bullet sizing die.https://fsreloading.com/lee-.224-bullet-lubesiz-kit-90049.html The really flattened ones probably should be scrapped but only really badly deformed ones. The Lee bullet sizer will iron down any pull marks and round slightly deformed bullets. I've read that badly deformed out of round bullets can have the lead and copper jacket separate on the flattened bullets. Most could be sized down in your rifles barrel but I feel better running all pulled military bullets thru a sizing die. It'll prevent you from accidentally loading a out or round bullet which makes your brass neck also out of round. Had a good show at the Creek this fall. |
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I'd resize them using Lee's inexpensive bullet sizing die.https://fsreloading.com/lee-.224-bullet-lubesiz-kit-90049.html The really flattened ones probably should be scrapped but only really badly deformed ones. The Lee bullet sizer will iron down any pull marks and round slightly deformed bullets. I've read that badly deformed out of round bullets can have the lead and copper jacket separate on the flattened bullets. Most could be sized down in your rifles barrel but I feel better running all pulled military bullets thru a sizing die. It'll prevent you from accidentally loading a out or round bullet which makes your brass neck also out of round. Had a good show at the Creek this fall. This! |
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ummm... aren't bullet resizers made for cast bullets...? Don't know what it'd do to a jacketed bullets. Feeling is that best case won't do squat; worst case makes it worse conjecture. With a FMJ bullet, I don't think you can really reshape the meplat either without bastardizing it into a softpoint... Those pulled bullets are meant for plinking anyways- minute of man projos. If you want accuracy, you'll have to get better projos. In fact, I think you can get Hornady 55gr FMJBTs off of the equipment exchange for almost the same price as those pulled bullets. |
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OP what is a Really good price? I say shoot-em, my bore and barrel rounds out bullets nice. We got them for $40 per 1k of bullets. we got 5k of them After hand sorting them, we have about 1k that are really bad, as in a bit oblong feeling when we roll them in our fingers. The other 4k feel like they will be fine. We were curious about what to do with the other 1k that feel a bit out of spec lol. We were thinking of loading a few up ( of the 1k bad ones) and seeing what they do. |
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