Berrys Bullets - A neat surprise today...

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Had a neat little surprise at the range today...

After I finished shooting and went to take down my target I noticed some really nice clean bullet trails in the snow (I love it's rarity in the Lower Mainland!) so I did what I normally do and looked for a few bullets. Normally it's in dirt and they are always mangled, mushroomed or worse and often difficult to even tell if they are my own.

Not today!

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2 recovered 124gr 9mm Berry's RN, from a G34 in the 1000fps neighbourhood next to 2 new bullets of the same make


I was the only one shooting in that part of the range, brand new pile of snow.. These two where basically sitting there waiting to be picked up...

Why post about this? I have read a number of people (net, print and otherwise) voice concerns about plated bullets 1. in general, and 2. in relation to glocks. I shoot a Glock 34, and the pictures say it all...there is absolutely no breaks in the copper, no cut from the crimp, just nice clean markings from the polygonal barrel....

Not that I had worries, just thought it was need to see for oneself...

Very best,

Ian
 
That's good to know. Thanks for sharing. I shoot the same bullet out of my Glock 17 at a slightly higher velocity.
 
Glocks, with their rounded rifling (it's not polygonal that has no grooves and lands) are easier on the plated bullets than normal "sharp" rifling. Bar-Sto barrels, as an example, have sharp rifling and can cut the plating to expose lead on poor quality or thinly electroplated bullets. Berry's, on the other hand, are high quality with a thicker copper deposition and I have shot them through my P226 with the Sig barrel and a Bar-Sto with no cuts to expose lead either. For fun, a few years ago I also recovered plated bullets from snow (plenty of this in Saskatchewan) and they looked as pristine as in your photo's. So, I loaded them again, after cleaning them, and shot them for grouping. They didn't do as well as the new ones but not bad up to 20 m!
 
It is neat, I have quite a pile of recovered Berrys that were shot into sawdust bales. Just like yours they look like new.
 
Wish i had a picture but I did a test on a piece of tree i cut down before it was split with a berry, factory fmj, and a win white box hollow point (and dont worry, they weren't fired from a hand gun, borrowed my buddies carbine). Brought the block back and cut it to get at the bullets. The fmj went in about 12 inches and was reloaded and shot again, the berry was in damn near as good of shape as the fmj and went in about 10 inches and hollow point was what you would expect. Dont believe what you hear about plated, they are fantastic. Just loaded up 500 today :)

Thanks for posting the pics, cool stuff
 
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Looks like they held up very well. So well in fact, I would bet you could handload those same bullets into another case and fire them a second time! That would be a pretty unique claim should you choose to try it.
 
IM_Lugger said:
how far do you have to dig in the snow to find a bullet?
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I was shooting a lower target (2-3' high) and our range ramps up slightly..one was littlerally sitting in a trough from a another bullet on top, the other just a little. I looked for others without success, 2 out of 150... There is some scratching on the bullets from the snow (crystally) and it swirls, but just the surface..

Ian
 
Neat story! Hey, while we're kind of on the subject of Berry's bullets I'm just curious what the general consenus is on these projectiles....in particular 9mm? I see they are priced a bit cheaper than the CamPro ones.
 
The Berry bullets work outstanding for me and my Glock 17. They shoot great, easy to reload and hold together very well. Give them a try, have no fear in using them.
 
They are all I use now in my Xd-m and SR9, no problems with them at all, accuracy is as good or better than anything else I've tried. There are FMJ's from Canadian BDX that are priced basically the same and work just as well, but its nice to hanve a fully enclosed lead core as I shoot indoors
 
My research found them at the tops of the list for plated in most peoples opinions. I don't notice any difference between them and the American Eagle factory stuff I was shooting before I started loading them. I did have an email exchange with Berry's and asked about the different shapes and he said that many find the hollow base round nose to be more accurate (they are triple plated as well). They'll be my next purchase to see. Cost wise I'm blessed, John at Custom Reloading is 5 mins from my house....

Very best,

ian
 
And I get mine from Budget Shooter Supply at the top of the page here, Henry is only about 15 minutes away from me and is always there at a moment notice
 
moosedude said:
And I get mine from Budget Shooter Supply at the top of the page here, Henry is only about 15 minutes away from me and is always there at a moment notice
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Having spent far too many years in the "mail order only" parts of Canada it is nice being able to pick up person and have a number of stores to choose from.
 
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