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Reloading solid copper bullets

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December 05, 2020, 02:12 PM
RNshooter
Reloading solid copper bullets
Hey all-

Components availability being what it is, you have to take what's available. I found a deal on some .224 55gr solid copper projectiles
https://americanreloading.com/...r-bt-new-1000ct.html

I plan to use them for general plinking. What reloading data should I start with? Modify it to account for (probably) longer length of the pill? Use 60gr data as a starting point?

Thanks,

Bruce





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December 05, 2020, 05:16 PM
AZSigs
Just start with .224 bullets at 55gr. I don't know which powder you are planning to use but you have a choice of a few. Per Winchester Reloading Site 55gr Nosler BT BLC-2 starting 27.4gr- max load of 29.8gr C.O.L 2.180.
Good luck and have fun.



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December 05, 2020, 06:38 PM
Alpha Bravo
Solid copper bullets are different in two respects:

That are long for weight so start low and work up. Really!

They may like more jump than you expect. Like .050 or .100. Really!

Good luck.
December 05, 2020, 09:15 PM
YellowJacket
Barnes data a good place to start? https://www.barnesbullets.com/load-data/


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December 07, 2020, 11:18 AM
RNshooter
The Barnes TSX seems like a good start. The 55gr is a flat base and they don't have a boat tail solid copper until 62gr.
With all the jump they require, I guess I will have to start with very reduced powder charges and work up.
I may waste the whole box on finding a proper loading and not have any left for practice!
Oh well, I will get reloading practice instead of target practice. Smile

Bruce





"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams

“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken