9mm lead bullets - Page 2

Majorlk · July 11th, 2009, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by automatic slim

My personal experience with lead bullets, I purchased some due to them being much cheaper than jacketed. I reloaded several hundred for use in a S&W M-659. When firing them, things went well at the beginning, but soon my gun started jamming. After examining it I found that a slight amount of lead was being shaves off on the feed ramp, after enough had built up the gun was unable to chamber a fresh round. I also did have a problem with bore leading and they weren't as accurate as jacketed bullets. I'm not saying you'll have problems, just my experience with them.

This is more of a problem with swaged bullets, which are really meant more for revolvers than semi-autos. With semi-autos, using a hard cast bullet minimizes this problem. Also, it helps to have a highly polished feed ramp.

Accuracy suffers if swaged bullets are pushed too hard - under 1000 fps is best. Hard cast can be pushed faster and also are less prone to barrel leading.

In short, only use hard cast in semi-autos.

Colin · July 11th, 2009, 08:50 PM

I use lead quite a bit for the outdoor stuff, generally I shoot 124gr RN lead with 4.0gr titegroup with no problems. They won't work in my 229 Barsto barrel as the chamber is to tight, and they are already close to the min. OAL. the rest of my 9mm eat them happily. One friend puts about 5 FMJ in each box of 50 reloaded lead to keep the fouling down.

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July 11th, 2009, 08:50 PM	#12
Colin Distinguished Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Vancouver Posts: 1,660	I use lead quite a bit for the outdoor stuff, generally I shoot 124gr RN lead with 4.0gr titegroup with no problems. They won't work in my 229 Barsto barrel as the chamber is to tight, and they are already close to the min. OAL. the rest of my 9mm eat them happily. One friend puts about 5 FMJ in each box of 50 reloaded lead to keep the fouling down.