Tumbling bullets....???

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I have quite a few older bullets in .224" dia that I'd like to use up. Some are older Remington HP's some are older Nosler custom match and a bunch of other stuff. All of them are pretty tarnished. I don't think it would effect the shoot ability of them but it looks like crap. Has any one ever put tarnished bullets in a vibrating tumbler? Does it clean them up?

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Tim
 
I have and yes it does.

I tumbled 500 Sierra 107 MK's and almost every one had a small piece of media stuck in the HP......shot my best ever 10 shot group at 300m with them too :D
 
I had an anomaly with tumbling bullets.
Found some really old ones in the back of my bench. They had a grey powdery look.
Tumbled a couple of hundred, they shot like crap.
Tried the gungee lookers, shot like they were stolen.

Strange!!!
 
Mike Oxbig said:
Maybe you accidentally stumbled on to something! I'm going to stuff polishing beads into all my HPs tonight.:D
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I seriously thought about doing the other 3000 I had on the shelf after that.

I was actually worried it would affect the bullets flight....apparently it didn't.
 
"heck, while i probably shouldn't recomend it, i've tumbled loaded ammo to clean it up. my tumbler hasn't detonated yet...."

Ya, maybe your tumbler hasn't blown up, but next time you pull the trigger on a load of say, 4831 that your trustie tumbler now has broken all the kernels and wore all the deterent coatings off which in effect has turned it into a powder with the burn rate of Bullseye. Yikes!!!
 
A&Shuntr said:
Ya, maybe your tumbler hasn't blown up, but next time you pull the trigger on a load of say, 4831 that your trustie tumbler now has broken all the kernels and wore all the deterent coatings off which in effect has turned it into a powder with the burn rate of Bullseye.
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You have no idea what you are talking of and the words out of your keyboard are nonsense. Stop spewing s**t, you'll scare the newbies.
 
I have studied internal, external and terminal ballistics for over 30 years, designed many wildcat cartridges and built the rifles for them. You might want to do a little more research into a subject before commenting on it. It has been very well documented.

"It is better to have someone think you are stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
 
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Heh, heh, heh... have fun trying to get the tumbling media separated. :)

Seriously, though... you can tumble bullets until they get nice and shiny. The SP's will have a nice black lead points depending on what kind of polish you put in your media.

The .224's will just fall out of your media separator along with the media, though. Even with .30 caliber, they sometimes fall through the openings in the media separator.
 
A&Shuntr said:
I have studied internal, external and terminal ballastics for over 30 years, designed many wildcat cartridges and built the rifles for them. You might want to do a little more research into a subject before commenting on it. It has been very well documented.

"It is better to have someone think you are stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
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Well, I've heard this claim many times over many years, and have never seen any concrete evidence. Do you have some links for our perusal? Thanks.

BTW, what else did you learn from studying "ballastics" for 30 years?
 
A&Shuntr said:
I have studied internal, external and terminal ballistics for over 30 years, designed many wildcat cartridges and built the rifles for them. You might want to do a little more research into a subject before commenting on it. It has been very well documented.

"It is better to have someone think you are stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
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I tumble all of my reloads to get the lube off the cases...as do many people...and I have never had an issue. I've also tested both (tumbled and non tumbled) at the Chrono and there's no difference.
 
A&Shuntr said:
Ya, maybe your tumbler hasn't blown up, but next time you pull the trigger on a load of say, 4831 that your trustie tumbler now has broken all the kernels and wore all the deterent coatings off which in effect has turned it into a powder with the burn rate of Bullseye. Yikes!!!
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I remember reading about this myth an another periodical. Adam, are you a mbr of FRPC? I'd like to see some of your wildcats and rifles some day.
 
I pick up the 223 brass and live rounds the LEOs leave at the range. I tumble the live rounds with the brass to clean off the dirt and shoot them later.
 
A&Shuntr said:
I have studied internal, external and terminal ballistics for over 30 years, designed many wildcat cartridges and built the rifles for them. You might want to do a little more research into a subject before commenting on it. It has been very well documented.

"It is better to have someone think you are stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
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It`s been well documented that tumbling loaded ammo has NO effect on the powder...IIRC, Winchester tumbles their ammo before boxing to give them that "shiny" look that gun owners like to see...Just Google, "tumbling loaded ammo".....
 
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