frontier cmj bullets

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hello and good day,
i was wondering has anyone tried frontier bullets from marstar. they look to have a great price on them advice always appreciated
thanks drae
 
I've run some of the 110 grain 30 carbine bullets through my 308 Winchester for plinking loads, and I also tried some sub-sonic stuff with the 260 grain 308 bullets. Accuracy was pretty poor with both, but for something dirt cheap for use for ringing the gong at the range during off-hand target practice, they suffice nicely.
 
Brother Jack: What load did you use for the 260 grain bullets? In .30-'06 I tried 7 grains and 12 grains of Trailboss. Neither bullet exited the barrel.
 
Splatter - I was using Red Dot. Can't seem to find my notes, but I recall I started at 13 grains and worked down to somewhere around 10.5 or 11 before it was consistently sub-sonic. The one BIG thing that I do recall is that at 13 grains of Red Dot ("The Load", as it's known), I thought that was too much pressure. The primers fairly flat, and I had some brass flow into the case-necks. If I was doing it again, I'd start more like 12 grains and work down.

Though, actually, I wouldn't do it again, and don't really recommend it. It's probably dangerous, and it turns out that sub-sonic 30-cal's (800-ish FPS my Chrono said) without a suppressor are still too loud to shoot without hearing protection (IMHO), and I can't think of any other reason I'd want to load a sub-sonic round.
 
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Semi thread-hijack: I've heard people say that, when loading CMJ ammo without any data specifically for CMJ, one should use data for lead bullets.

I also remember reading on here that someone had contacted Frontier about that and was told to use data for FMJ... Whenever possible, I'll take data for both lead and FMJ and average it out to develop loads for CMJ bullets.

So, is there any consensus on this? FMJ data or lead bullet data?
 
I've been using fmj loads for the cmj. I've been using them for 9mm and 308. its all good. when my 45acp comes, then i'll buy some of that too.
 
I've hammered the 110's up to around 3100FPS, and they held together just fine. I'd say FMJ loads would be fine for em. :)
 
Those CMJs that I had jammed in my barrel were stuck way harder than any lead bullet I've ever stuck. They were a proper ##### to remove.
I say use the jacketed bullet data.
 
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