Bulk Bullets Clearance Priced - 115 gr 9mm

Anyone had any experience with the red polymer coated 115gr projectiles ? I read some online review of other brands from US, says it is cleaner than lead and same performance as the copper plated bullet...if anyone had some experience, would be very appreciated if you can share :D thanks!
 
tivatian said:
Anyone had any experience with the red polymer coated 115gr projectiles ? I read some online review of other brands from US, says it is cleaner than lead and same performance as the copper plated bullet...if anyone had some experience, would be very appreciated if you can share :D thanks!
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Used these last week in FNS LS. Initial load of 4.3 g Titegroup would not reliably cycle. Latest load of 4.7 Titegroup cycles well. Snappier than 124 g. POI looks very close to 124 campro. When the bullet is inserted into the case some of the coating is shaved off. This will adhere to the case side and needs removing (easy to do) to avoid feeding problems.
 
palwait said:
Used these last week in FNS LS. Initial load of 4.3 g Titegroup would not reliably cycle. Latest load of 4.7 Titegroup cycles well. Snappier than 124 g. POI looks very close to 124 campro. When the bullet is inserted into the case some of the coating is shaved off. This will adhere to the case side and needs removing (easy to do) to avoid feeding problems.
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Thanks you very much for the info!!!
 
Any idea what sort of velocity the polymer coated ones are good up to? I'm loading for a 9mm Carbine, from what I gather Hi-Tek's first formula was good for ~1500fps, the second for ~2000fps, wondering if there is a known velocity ceiling on these ones too?
 
Red Poly Coat

Received a can of 115gr Poly Coat yesterday. Made a small batch for testing and when to the range this am.

I am very impressed.
As always, my second shot is a flyer, high to the left lol. Not counting that one, its a 3/4" group @ about 20 feet.



FYI, I used 4.2gr of D800 Powder, Dominion Arms small primer.
Average Velocity: 1093 fps
Standard Deviation: 8 fps

The only negative - My wife said they were cute and looked like little lipsticks - lol

 
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Just got back from the range shooting my new Shadow 2. I only brought a hundred of the red poly coates along with other reloads. The reds were powered by 4.7 grs of titegroup. Was not impressed with the red's one bit. Out of the hundred, only managed to put 57 down range due to the slided not going fully forward after shooting one. I figure it failed to fully slide forward a half dozen or more times. Got fustrated/PO and continued the range session with Campro's 115gr, 124gr and 147gr with no issues. I tested each of the red poly's in my gauge and for the most part everyone went in smoothly. Mind you, they weren't drop in perfect as the jacketed ones but they went in snuggly. I tried a dozen or so in the barrel of my M&P after reloading them and they seemed to drop in perfect. Didn't bother to take the M&P to the range to check the operation of the red polys in it. Hopefully there will be no issues with the M&P or the JRC. If so, Ill have 2900 red polys to get rid off.
 
gunner065 said:
Just got back from the range shooting my new Shadow 2. I only brought a hundred of the red poly coates along with other reloads. The reds were powered by 4.7 grs of titegroup. Was not impressed with the red's one bit. Out of the hundred, only managed to put 57 down range due to the slided not going fully forward after shooting one. I figure it failed to fully slide forward a half dozen or more times. Got fustrated/PO and continued the range session with Campro's 115gr, 124gr and 147gr with no issues. I tested each of the red poly's in my gauge and for the most part everyone went in smoothly. Mind you, they weren't drop in perfect as the jacketed ones but they went in snuggly. I tried a dozen or so in the barrel of my M&P after reloading them and they seemed to drop in perfect. Didn't bother to take the M&P to the range to check the operation of the red polys in it. Hopefully there will be no issues with the M&P or the JRC. If so, Ill have 2900 red polys to get rid off.
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What was your Over all length? I too went to the range today, but I took 200 (lol), Over All Length was 1.100. I used a CZ SP-01 Shadow 1 and got a sub 1 moa group from about 20 yards. See above post. I did have a ejection issue, several stove pipes, but it was from the same mag, so I chalked that up to a mag issue
 
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TheTexan said:
What was your Over all length? I too went to the range today, but I took 200 (lol), Over All Length was 1.100. I used a CZ SP-01 Shadow 1 and got a sub 1 moa group from about 20 yards. See above post. I did have a ejection issue, several stove pipes, but it was from the same mag, so I chalked that up to a mag issue
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Good shootin. My OAL was 1.12. Same as the other 115's I put down the barrel with no issues.
 
gunner065 said:
Good shootin. My OAL was 1.12. Same as the other 115's I put down the barrel with no issues.
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Good shooting? I'd say that's pretty amazing shooting. 3/4" from 20yrds... free hand or benched?

Sounds like you got to seat them a little deeper if they fail the plunk test.
 
I'll try'um at 1.10 as TheTexan did. Won't get near his results but having them fire correctly will be good for now.
 
TheTexan said:
Received a can of 115gr Poly Coat yesterday. Made a small batch for testing and when to the range this am.

I am very impressed.
As always, my second shot is a flyer, high to the left lol. Not counting that one, its a 3/4" group @ about 20 feet.



FYI, I used 4.2gr of D800 Powder, Dominion Arms small primer.
Average Velocity: 1093 fps
Standard Deviation: 8 fps

The only negative - My wife said they were cute and looked like little lipsticks - lol

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Does the D800 powder works ok with the powder thrower? My set up is the Hornady LNL. Thanks ~~!
 
tivatian said:
Does the D800 powder works ok with the powder thrower? My set up is the Hornady LNL. Thanks ~~!
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This is from another thread. Someone asked me the same question, so I did 10 throws and measured each one, see my results below. I am using a lee pro 1000 that came with there auto disk power measure, which is a case activated thrower. Also I ran 200 yesterday at the range, did a crony test on 10 - the range was fairly decent . I typically use either HP38 or N320, and the range of the D800 was not that far off. So far I am very pleased!


TheTexan said:
OK - 1st thing, it was 4.4 gr, lee disk 0.61, (updated post), i was going from memory, which is not a good thing lol.
I did 10 new measurements (that't not easy on a pro 1000), and I got;
7 @ 4.4,
1 @ 4.3,
1 @ 4.5
1 @ 4.6
Then measured all 10 and I got 44.2

Here is a pic of what the powder looks like - best i can tell they are flakes at 84 thousands, they seem to be fairly uniform

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Got my first Can of the Red bullet :D. Looks cute. Good quality for the price. No problem with my bullet feeder die, and seat in my case without any issues. Haven't test it yet..But, will probably order another Can. Thanks Can ammo.
 
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