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I bought a couple bags of Campro plated 158SWC and 148 WC.

I usually shoot DRG lead bullets. never noticed any lead spitting.

Loaded up the Campros and I come home with a pock-marked left cheek, with some bleeding.

This is in a number of different makes and models of 357s, but not in all of them.

What does this mean?
 
I've had the same experience. In my case it was an aggressive crimp that was cutting the plating.

I actually found some semi circular copper pieces on the bench.
 
Once I used Campro plated bullets when I owned a S&W 624. However the bullet tended to shatter into fairly big pieces prone to richocette.
One piece even struck a fellow shooter in his mid section 20 yards indoor range. Didn't break his skin but we were both dumbfounded.
I disposed of the remaining handloads forthwith.
 
It is a fairly aggressive crimp. I will try reducing it bit.

If it was just one out of 20 guns that is spitting, I would assume it is a gun problem. But when 10 or so are spitting, it must be the ammo.

And I shot some DRG lead last time, and it did not spit.
 
I am getting spitting with a 1200 fps 158gr bullet and a 800 fps 148 gr bullet.

"crimping" rang a bell. I was getting the bullet getting stuck on the seater ram from time to time, so I increased the crimp so that the bullet would always stay in the case.

I just tests some 148s and found a bit of copper plating stuck to a case mouth.

So I just took a Dremel to the mouth of the seater stem and changed it a bit so it cannot grab a bullet. I loaded 200 rounds with a milder crimp and will test those.

Thanks, guys. I bet I solved the problem.
 
Anything coming out of the cylinder gap should be going sideways. All the times I've been tagged or seen it happen to a friend it was bits of bullet ricochet off the backstop. How far are you from your backstop, and what sort is it?

It also seems like jacketed bullets are much more prone to separate jacket from core and go their independent ways at impact.
 
i had a old 32 rimfire that was converted/sleeved to a more common rimfire round that would spray lead out of it when fired, turned out the cylinder timing was off, fixed that by building up the little lock that the cylinder *clicks* into place with

Edit, never mind i see is more then one gun.
 
I had this once. Barrel was loosening up. Didn't notice until I was cleaning it and holding it just right while manipulating the barrel and holding the frame.

Edit; obviously not your problem with 10 different guns. But worth mentioning for the record.
 
The good thing about shooting 10-20 guns with the same ammo, you pretty well know the ammo is the problem.
What I don't under stand is how the hell do you carry that many to the range? slaves?
I can mange 4 or 5 .Old age crap.
 
Forgot to add, were you alone, who says it was from your gun. I had a flake in the eye once, hurt like hell. Since you were directly behind your gun I would think it not from your gun.
 
Smcx said:
I hate to bash a Canadian company, but I find that their bullets are only good for mouse fart loads.
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Yes. But it's almost worse sir. Mouse farts hand loads often come in well established cast lead formulas that have been serving us ad nauseum.
There's a plethora of cast data unlike Campro plated bullets.

This being solely a Canadian company there is few sources of reliable hand load data.
I suggest that plating may or may not equate to parallel cast bullet data.

Campro caters to the scrooge in each of us.
Cheap bullets, no messy casting....
I think we found it Achilles heel.
Brittle plating.
 
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Never had any problems shooting Campro bullets in my pistol. Could it be a revolver problem? Campro bullets are plated, not jacketed. I load using cast bullet charges.
 
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