reloading USED bullits LOL

[lone ranger]

was at the range picking brass

 

[M1-Garand]

You may have been picking up some of mine, I shoot quite a bit in winter, if the weather is half decent and the wind isn't howling. LOL.

 

[Evanguy]

one time i was at a range by my house setting up targets and noticed all kinds of fired 7.62x39 bullets in the berm within the first 1" or 2" of the dirt. I collected up 50 of them in about 5 minutes. tumbled them to clean them, tips were perfectly fine and look god other then the rifling marks on the sides.

and loaded them in 303 cases. i was getting 10" groups at 100m, but the rifle even with factory ammo doesnt shoot much better then 6" at 100m

it was a good time, cant see me doing it again now that i have bullets on hand

(the public ranges in NS have only one shooting lane, need to be booked in 1 hour slots, and you park you car 5 feet form where the bench is you shoot from, so i was sure no on else was going to start shooting)

 

[lone ranger]

I am surprised at how Gentle the snow is on them.

 

[lone ranger]

one time i was at a ran

 

[Butcherbill]

I am surprised at how Gentle the snow is on them.

It’s interesting how nice they look, I picked up a bunch last spring to melt them back into the lead pot but some of them were pretty mint looking.

 

[Potashminer]

I never tried that. I had read that bullet tips might affect how they feed, but is bullet base and shoulder at the base that apparently matter for how "accurate" they are. Hard to imagine the rifling engraving to matter - would think the bullet core would swell out and seal near base and just get new grooves engraved - old ones plugged off at rear and not letting gas go past?

 

[adamg]

I have a collection of pistol bullets that are mint, other than the rifling engraved on them. One of them has turned green on the tail (base), I imagine due to some chemical deposits and reaction with copper.

 

[45C]

I’ve recovered lots of my 45acp 45 LC from shooting in winter.
All mine were copper plated and they were a touch smaller, because I think they were just a touch bigger than the barrel.

They look perfect,except you can see the lands groove in them.

Good for last resort ..lol

For accuracy, try them at 50 yards rested. I think that’s where you’d notice the biggest change.

 

[lone ranger]

I’ve recovered lots

 

[Tex Critter]

Firing into a good snow covered backstop is great for recovering bullets. I've recast hundreds of them.

 

[fingers284]

I would never use "as picked up" slugs again without re casting ...lead or plated. Snow pickups might be okay but anything driven into a berm at high velocity probably ( quite likely actually) could have fine grit imbedded into the outer surfaces and your driving that grit down your precision cut barrel rifling like grinding compound.