9mm, lead ball or fmj?
I am looking at Cabelas for bulk 9mm ammo and they have these 2 kinds in bulk what are the advantages to either? Both I think are 132 grain.
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Lead Ball ammo is where the Bullet is Exposed Lead.
Not good for indoor Target Ranges for Health reasons.
Full Metal Jacket ammo is Lead Ball Bullets with a Copper Jacket covering the Lead.
Nether is a Good Defense round.
Either is fine for Target Practice Outside.
I'm going to say that both rounds will not hurt your guns barrel in any way, others may disagree with this statement.
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I have loaded and shot thousands of each, The biggest diffrence is that the lead is dirty, When I load lead, I wear a latex exam glove so as not to get the lead all over my hand. Not to mention the hard lube that is on lead bullets. When you shoot it, it is somewhat dirtier, the barrel leads up some times, and it is smokier, indoors it will smoke up the range, i think the lube contributes to this, however you would need to shoot a lot of it real fast to cause smoke problems. I have good accuracy with both. The lead must be loaded at lower velocities, of the top of my head, I forget what I loaded, but i think it is less than 900 fps. If you load the lead up real hot, it will melt and splatter in your barrel.
When you load the lead bullets, check each one and look to see if any lead shaved off the bullet when you seated it, I have sometimes had feed problems due to a shaving from the seating process sticking to the outsdie of the casing.
Check out your reoloading book and get some light loads at first for lead.
Check out your local gun store for lead bullets, the shipping will cost you a ton.
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I vote for FMJ [8D]
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Certain pistols have clear manufacturer warnings to not use lead bullets. Glock is one, but there are others. Check the manual for your gun, if you don't have a manual go to the manufacturers web site or call them.
Polygonal (sp?) rifling is particularly prone to leading up and as the lead deposits in the barrel increase so does the pressure, and that can be a serious problem.
When I competed w/ a Glock I had a practice barrel w/ conventional rifling that I used with handloads that had cast lead bullets. At the time this was cheaper than using commercial ammo. Today, w/ 9mm ammo prices what they are you might just as well buy commercial fmj such as Wolf and just forget about it.
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