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markm
12-10-08, 12:43
These are cool.

http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpage.exe/showproduct?saleitemid=747365

They're a little expensive, but they are a good short range gong bullet. I ordered 200 of them and have fired 30 rounds so far. I shot them as close as 15 yards away from my gongs. They behave about as well as the Fed NT frangibles from ammoman.

They work great over our offical load of 24.5 grains of TAC. That means no powder adjustment to load these up, and the bullet ogive is close enough to 55 gr FMJs that there's not bullet seating adjustment needed.

markm
12-10-08, 12:55
If you load these to 2.26 OAL you should be just about at 44,000 psi in the chamber and pushing 2779 fps out of a 16 inch barrel.

They're a flat based bullet so they're a little slower to load on a progressive. My 1/9 twist barrel stabilizes them fine even though they are pretty long.