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Yea, should work.

But that said, with good neck tension I am not sure you will have trouble with normal 9MM bullets. Have you tried it and had bullet creep with your normal 9MM loads?
 
Most any bullet maker sells bullets that have a crimp groove in those weights/diameters.
If your 9mm revolver head spaces off the case mouth and you crimp it in, the cartridge will move deeper into the cylinder chamber/ away from the firing pin.
If your 9mm revolver uses moon clips or headspaces off the rim like a Charter Arms a crimped case should work.
I would think the bullet tension with the proper expander would stop any bullet jump of moderate 9mm loads.
Have you considered using short colt brass or cutting down 38 brass to 9mm length and load/crimp with 9mm dies...might work.:uhoh:
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Edit: sorry for the echo Walkalong, posted at the same time :oops:
 
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I have a CA 9mm Pitbull and my reloads have bullet creep with 9mm bullets. Proper crimp with the 9's has been elusive. With too much crimp accuracy suffers and keyholing starts to appear. Not enough crimp and some bullets have moved totally out of the casing! Came across the "Bang & Clang" website and found those coated 125's.

Tilos - Have not considered other casing options.
 
Like I said above, never heard of that site you linked to but many of us but from Missouri Bullets https://www.missouribullet.com and are extremely satisfied with their service and product. There are several others we also use that are good sites like Acme Bullets http://acmebullet.com , Bayou Bullets http://www.bayoubullets.net , SNS Bullets https://snscasting.com and probably a few others I can't remember right now.

I have been using mostly Missouri Bullets because they are high quality and they are good people to deal with.
 
What intrigues me about B&C (other than the name) is that the coated 38 special bullet is a TCFP style with a crimp groove and here's the bonus: will size to either 356-357-358. Don't see that offering with the others. MBC comes close but doesn't offer it in the 356-357 diameter.
 
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Bang and Clang Bullets is owned by Revolver Supply Co. Mr. George Martin. He is a competition oriented business.

George is a good guy, knowledgeable with revolvers. I use some of his stuff, in particular his moonclips. Cannot comment on the bullets but everything else is great.
 
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Just as an aside - I have found that plated bullets want to jump / setback the most, and coated lead bullets jump / setback the least. Good luck in your search! (I love my 9mm SP101, and I use MBC subsonic grooveless for the most part.)
 
and coated lead bullets jump / setback the least.

You made me have to go out to my loading room and load up some dummy rounds.

GFL 9mm brass OAL 1.10, which I consider to be the a-typical good 9mm brass due to it's wall thickness at the mouth.

Resizing and neck die is RCBS Carbide.

Acme 9mm coated vs Xtreme 9mm plated, both 124gr, and both mic at .356" , for neck tension test

They both made 50lb with my shimpo strain gage machine.

I then tried it with .FC. brass and got the same thing. I have learned that anything over 40lbs is good to go with all maximum loads I've tested in 9mm.
50lb on that gage won't slip at max load of anything in 9mm Luger.

DO NOT TRY THIS!
I overloaded some 9mm loads with Power Pistol by .3 gr over max and tested for setback with 124gr Berry's plated TCFP 9mm that mic'ed at .356" and shot one round, and check the next round and did this three times and had no setback. These rounds checked out at 50lbs, ( I only checked them to 50lbs because that what the machine is calibrated to). It goes to 100lbs.
My dies are "off the shelf" RCBS carbide dies, unfortunately they are the only 9mm dies I have. (With the tension they make they are the only ones I need), so I can't test any other brands.

This is not REAL scientific but I couldn't make the HighTec coated bullets slip, or the plated bullets slip at 50lbs, so I'm certainly not worried about either one, at least with my dies.
 
What intrigues me about B&C (other than the name) is that the coated 38 special bullet is a TCFP style with a crimp groove and here's the bonus: will size to either 356-357-358. Don't see that offering with the others. MBC comes close but doesn't offer it in the 356-357 diameter.

Email MBC. In my experience, they will provide custom sized bullets if you order a minimum quantity (I think 1000, but check with them). I'm sure that is assuming they have the proper tooling, but since they are providing "9mm" bullets in .356" they could custom size one of their ".38 Special" bullets.
 
tightgroup - What gun? I assume you were responding to rcbernie's comments about "setback" and not a 9mm snubby revolver's propensity for "jump".
 
Ruger SR9 for the over max test.
Keltec pf9 for max load test.
I just recently started using coated bullets.
Thats why I was curious. I can't imagine a revolver would jump any more than a PF 9 with +P loads in it.
But I havent shot one yet.
 
This is not REAL scientific but I couldn't make the HighTec coated bullets slip, or the plated bullets slip at 50lbs, so I'm certainly not worried about either one, at least with my dies.
It dang sure is more scientific that my observations! :)

I conducted my initial tests (without calibrated test jig - just using a simple push test, chambering test, and inertial puller) with minimal crimp on the rounds; just enough to remove any bell. I found that Berrys plated would give me significant setback and jump compared to MBC coated. I added the Dillon taper crimp die to the setup and applied a fairly significant crimp, and at that point the Berrys would then hold appropriately and similarly to the MBC. My conclusion was / is that the slightly larger OD and surface texture of the coated bullet provided greater tension than did the ultrasmooth Berrys plating, but that I could overcome that with crimp.
 
Like I said above, never heard of that site you linked to but many of us but from Missouri Bullets https://www.missouribullet.com and are extremely satisfied with their service and product. There are several others we also use that are good sites like Acme Bullets http://acmebullet.com , Bayou Bullets http://www.bayoubullets.net , SNS Bullets https://snscasting.com and probably a few others I can't remember right now.

I have been using mostly Missouri Bullets because they are high quality and they are good people to deal with.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the best of the best Bullet Companies. I've used all you listed and have been 100% satisfied with each. Missouri and SNS get the bulk of my business. If you want non coated lead, I have found that GT Bullets has some of the best quality bullets I've ever shot, but they are pricey. They do have a 185gr Wide HP for .357 that is an awesome hunting bullet but I push it hard and get leading after about 10-15 rounds. One advantage to GT is they will sell sample packs of 100 for trial.
 
I recently received my 38 special 125 gr tcfp coated B&C bullets with a 0.357 diameter for use in my 9mm revolver. Loaded with Bullseye 3.3 gr and did a slight roll crimp at the crimp groove. COL is 1.050 and my chrono readings average 860fps.
Happy to report I encountered no bullet jump! My procedure was to identify bullet #5 in the cylinder rotation and then fire off the first four rounds. I pulled the unfired #5 and measured it. Did this a number of times. Nobody walked!
I went back out shooting yesterday and fired off 80 rounds. I was looking for any keyholers and signs of barrel leading. No keyholers or errant rounds. The barrel/cylinders just had minimal Bullseye residue which cleaned up well with CLP.
When I was doing the chrono testing a few days back I also loaded up some 3.4 grains and 3.7 grains. I liked the 3.3 grain numbers the best as they were sub 900.
Recoil was easy on all 3 test batches. Here's a pic of the round:

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