A Question About Plated Bullets

[Glen]

I really appreciate all this input. I may just buy a taper resizing die for these. In the last bullet shortage, I found plated bullets to be available while all the lead and jacketed bullets were long gone. If it's that way in this shortage, I will certainly use them. Again, thanks, everybody.

 

[SunnySlopes]

I loaded up about 250 Berry's in .40 Cal under 7.8 grains AAC7 with a taper crimp. When shot across the Chrono it showed a high of about 1200 fps (average was about 1100) but the plating started to separate downrange and made a halo of fine holes around the POI.
Maybe I had a bad batch...but that was it for plated as far as I was concerned.

Both Berrys and Xtreme say their bullets are fine as long as you don't go over 1200 fps. It sounds like you were close to max.

 

[SunnySlopes]

I really appreciate all this input. I may just buy a taper resizing die for these. In the last bullet shortage, I found plated bullets to be available while all the lead and jacketed bullets were long gone. If it's that way in this shortage, I will certainly use them. Again, thanks, everybody.

I've long used plated bullets. I could never consistently use cast without sooner or later suffering severe leading. Different manufacturers just didn't seem to use the same components.

For 9mm and 45 ACP I use a moderate taper crimp. For 357 (38 special velocities) and 44 (also 44 special velocities) I use a very mild roll crimp. Berrys says their bullets are fine as long as the copper plate isn't broken.