Suggestions for plinking 223 bullets. - Page 2

P95Carry · January 8th, 2009, 10:31 PM

"Blem" bullets are I have found pretty OK for general target and plinking work. Last batch of 2,000 223 FMJ's I got were pulled tho, and very good price. (Also had a stellar deal on about 2,500 158 JHP's, 'blems' - Hornady Gold dots - that was a sweat deal and darned if I have found a bad one yet.)

Those do just fine but I did take the time to sort them a bit as canellures were of variable height and so graded them a bit. The best were kept for good use rounds - the random ones went to plinking loads. Might be worth paying attention to ogive location if a batch happens to be mixed lot - to make sure ''jump'' is kept within bounds when deciding on OAL.

Jeff F · January 9th, 2009, 08:53 AM

Can sometimes get a decent deal on bulk bullets from Dillon, but Midway usually has the best sales when you can catch them.

Ghuqu2 · January 10th, 2009, 11:05 PM

Try TJ Conovera.
55gr Winchester bullets for $69 per 1k. Also good prices on 38 and esp. 9mm fmj and plated bullets as well as brass.

January 8th, 2009, 10:31 PM	#11
P95Carry Assistant Administrator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: South West PA Posts: 25,468	"Blem" bullets are I have found pretty OK for general target and plinking work. Last batch of 2,000 223 FMJ's I got were pulled tho, and very good price. (Also had a stellar deal on about 2,500 158 JHP's, 'blems' - Hornady Gold dots - that was a sweat deal and darned if I have found a bad one yet.) Those do just fine but I did take the time to sort them a bit as canellures were of variable height and so graded them a bit. The best were kept for good use rounds - the random ones went to plinking loads. Might be worth paying attention to ogive location if a batch happens to be mixed lot - to make sure ''jump'' is kept within bounds when deciding on OAL. __________________ Chris - P95 NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member. "To own a gun and assume that you are armed is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!." If a BG dies as the result of pointing a gun at me, then he has merely succumbed to an occupational hazard of being a thug

January 9th, 2009, 08:53 AM	#12
Jeff F Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: South Central Wyoming Posts: 292	Can sometimes get a decent deal on bulk bullets from Dillon, but Midway usually has the best sales when you can catch them. __________________ "Those who would give up essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety" -Benjamin Franklin- __________________________________ NRA Endowment Life Member

January 10th, 2009, 11:05 PM	#13
Ghuqu2 Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Missouri Posts: 289	Try TJ Conovera. 55gr Winchester bullets for $69 per 1k. Also good prices on 38 and esp. 9mm fmj and plated bullets as well as brass. __________________ "The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us." Patrick Henry 1775 Vegetarian: Indian for inept hunter.

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