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Has anyone tried the 180 grain Z Cast in 40 S&W?
180 gr Zcast
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I just got my first order, but haven't shot 'em, yet. Just 500 180gr bullets to try them out.
Got 'em in just a hair over two weeks. Not bad. Also, I'm going to venture a guess I got a bit more than 500 bullets. I don't have a scale big enough to check, but they pretty much completely fill 2 Berry's boxes.
The bad: a lot of them have a weird, slanted double indent completely traversing one side of the driving band below the lube groove. Circumference measures 0.396" over these impressions. The rest of the bullet measures 0.401". I think maybe 25% of my bullets have this. It's a very consistent defect, which was probably coming from one of their molds. Also quite a few have a little chunk of sprue on the rear corner, which makes getting them into the case mouth just a little tricky. Make no mistake. They couldn't even pass for MBC factory rejects. But at this price, that's not a complaint. Just an observation. I'm guessing my targets won't know the difference.
My cheap digital scale says 184gr, but from experience I think that really means somewhere between 180-182gr. It only has 2 gr increments, so I can't measure the variation with any accuracy, and my powder scale doesn't go high enough.
Got 'em in just a hair over two weeks. Not bad. Also, I'm going to venture a guess I got a bit more than 500 bullets. I don't have a scale big enough to check, but they pretty much completely fill 2 Berry's boxes.
The bad: a lot of them have a weird, slanted double indent completely traversing one side of the driving band below the lube groove. Circumference measures 0.396" over these impressions. The rest of the bullet measures 0.401". I think maybe 25% of my bullets have this. It's a very consistent defect, which was probably coming from one of their molds. Also quite a few have a little chunk of sprue on the rear corner, which makes getting them into the case mouth just a little tricky. Make no mistake. They couldn't even pass for MBC factory rejects. But at this price, that's not a complaint. Just an observation. I'm guessing my targets won't know the difference.
My cheap digital scale says 184gr, but from experience I think that really means somewhere between 180-182gr. It only has 2 gr increments, so I can't measure the variation with any accuracy, and my powder scale doesn't go high enough.
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I tried some 9 MM and 45 ACP. While they are not MBC quality they do seem to shoot ok. They list the 180gr 40 cal as a round nose flat point. Is it that or more like a TCFP?
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