Learned a valuable lesson re plated bullets

CS8161

June 25, 2010 12:04

Been using Berry's bullets for a long time with excellent results. Saw some Rainier plated bullets on sale and bought 500 to try them out. For some reason, I increased the amount of crimp in my taper crimp die and made up 50 rounds. Took them out to the range and at 15 yards, I had about a 20" group! Damn! I went back to the bench, made up 25 more but decreased the amount of crimp to the way the die was set before, and my group went back to normal. I was talking to a friend out at the range and he had heard that with plated bullets, too much crimp will definitely hurt accuracy. He was right!

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  dcs shooters

  June 25, 2010 15:47

  Treat the plated bullets the same as plain lead [;)]
  The plating is very thin.

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