crissmorgan
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Does anyone know of a reliable source of .375" or .377", 250 or 255 grain flat nose soft point bullets for my 38-55 High Wall Winchester? I would prefer the .377" bullets because they are slightly more accurate, but can use the .375" bullets if I have to. I can't afford to buy the Barnes Originals any more. They cost $44.00 for a box of 50 and that's just too much for mostly target shooting. My rifle doesn't seem to like cast lead bullets. I have more bullet molds in different diameters and weights that you could ever believe since I have 6 different 38-55's. I have tried different alloys from the softest almost pure lead, to pure linotype in all the different bullet weights and styles I can find but my High Wall just plain doesn't like them. I need a good jacketed bullet that will expand at 1200 to 1500 FPS velocities. I tried spire point bullets and round nose bullets made for the .375 H&H class rifles, and they don't expand reliably at low velocities. I even did testing in wet newspaper and ballistic gelatin. I'll never mess with ballistic gelatin during the hot days of a Louisiana Summer again! Talk about a mess! But that's how I found out about the unreliable expansion. The Barnes Originals are great bullets that do a super job of expanding at 1200 FPS, but other than a few old Hornady bullets I found somewhere, nothing else has worked. Hornady no longer makes these bullets either. I'm starting to believe I am the only person who wants to shoot jacketed bullets in his 38-55. This High Wall is super accurate and I really enjoy shooting it, but 44 to 50 dollars for 50 bullets is just too high.
