Thermactor
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Gents,
I'm looking for feedback on Buffalo Bore's lead (not Barnes copper) loads.
Lanbo's Armory has them on closeout for $13.32 a box, which is about 1/2 price. This brings the price to about $0.66/rd + $10 flat rate shipping over $100, which ain't horrible for a specialty load to play with.
Here are the specs I could dredge:
Apparently they use Starline brass, low-flash powder, and (typically) Speer Gold Dot hollow points.
These are the rounds in question
24A/20 - 115gr +P+ ; Rated 1400 FPS, 500 lb-ft
24B/20 - 124gr +P+ ; Rated 1300 FPS, 461 lb-ft
24C/20 - 147gr +P+ ; Rated 1175 FPS, 451 lb-ft
All I could find about these rounds are that they seem to overspeed the Gold Dot past their designed performance envelope; expansion looks .. um.. prolapsed and all kinds of separation happens.
But that's my highly uneducated perspective and I'm looking to get educated.
1) Does anybody here carry these?
2) What are your overall impressions of these rounds?
I've read on some reviews that people have been opening boxes of Buffalo Bore rounds and discovering plain ordinary Hornady or whatever JHP rounds instead of Gold Dots loaded in them, has that been anyone's experience here?
I'm looking for feedback on Buffalo Bore's lead (not Barnes copper) loads.
Lanbo's Armory has them on closeout for $13.32 a box, which is about 1/2 price. This brings the price to about $0.66/rd + $10 flat rate shipping over $100, which ain't horrible for a specialty load to play with.
Here are the specs I could dredge:
Apparently they use Starline brass, low-flash powder, and (typically) Speer Gold Dot hollow points.
These are the rounds in question
24A/20 - 115gr +P+ ; Rated 1400 FPS, 500 lb-ft
24B/20 - 124gr +P+ ; Rated 1300 FPS, 461 lb-ft
24C/20 - 147gr +P+ ; Rated 1175 FPS, 451 lb-ft
All I could find about these rounds are that they seem to overspeed the Gold Dot past their designed performance envelope; expansion looks .. um.. prolapsed and all kinds of separation happens.
But that's my highly uneducated perspective and I'm looking to get educated.
1) Does anybody here carry these?
2) What are your overall impressions of these rounds?
I've read on some reviews that people have been opening boxes of Buffalo Bore rounds and discovering plain ordinary Hornady or whatever JHP rounds instead of Gold Dots loaded in them, has that been anyone's experience here?