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Originally Posted by Cyrille  Solid: Adj. 1. relatively firm or compact; neither liquid or gaseous. 2. not hollow etc.
Copper-plated: A thin cooper sheathing over the 20-1 lead core.
The .460 has a "gain-twist" barrel which means that the projectile starts with a slow spin that increases as the projectile heads down the barrel. If I remember rightly the twist of the .460 increases from 1 in 100 to 1 in 20.
I found that even with my mid-range .45 LC reloads slight leading occurs in the barrel when fired from this revolver. I can only guess at the amount of lead that would be deposited in the barrel if I approched the maximum(magnum) powder loads allowed with this revolver. That is why I'm looking for "solid" copper sheathed lead bullets.
Not that I intend to "push the envelope" by shooting more than the Maximum recommended loads my loads are always well below the top load and above the minimum recomended loads. |
I'm sorry. I was confused with a monolithic solid, which means the bullet is only one metal. Which is why the copper plated made no sense. Althought there are certainly copper monolithic bullets. Did you ever try moly coated bullets? They are even cheaper than copper plated, which are usually not meant to be pushed to the max anyways. With copper plating you always have to worry about jacket separation at very high velocities. This is a quote from Ranier Ballistics.
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Q3. Do your bullets have ANY velocity restrictions? A. In general, our bullets typically perform their best when shot at velocities no greater than 1,200 to 1,250 Feet per second (FPS).
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One of the reasons I swithed to moly from copper plated. Well that, and the whole moly is cheaper than plated thing.
10-06-2007, 08:28 AM
