??? about MBC 45 acp coated bullets

[onegunred]

Over the years I have used several thousand of Brad's bullets lubed and coated. I would email him but he is kinda busy and I do not want to slow down his good work. My question is about the 45 ACP SOFTBALL 230 gr. coated. They are a brinell 18, I have been using 12s in other calibers because of velocity that they are loaded for. The 230 gr 45 acp will be loaded to about 850+/- fps. I have been brow beat to understand that you do not use 18s for less the 1200 fps. He does not have a brinell 12 in the SOFTBALL coated variety, will the 18s be okay and not cause any adverse problems of leading ? Thanks, Jerry

 

[Rule3]

I asked Brad YEARS ago why the 230 gr bullets where the same BHN as say 357 mag. He stated because people wanted hard.
It made no sense to me, but this was before coated came out. I still have boxes of plain lead in 12 and 18 BHN
"softball makes no sense when they are actually hardball???

Once the bullet is coated it makes no real difference(to me) as long as they fit correctly and all that minutia.

You used to be able to request the softer lead, but I do not know about now with how busy they are.

I even took some of my plain lubed bullets, removed the lube and powder coated them. I dislike regular lube in my semi autos it is filthy.

Just use the coated 18 bhn and shoot them. (what I do)

 

[Texas10mm]

Almost all commercial cast bullets are designed not to shoot...but to survive shipping. Hence the unnecessary hardness and the crappy lube.

 

[Dudedog]

I have used MBC bullets in both BHN 12 and BHN 18 in .45. My guns seemed to prefer the softer BHN12 ones,, but I had to be having a good day to shoot the difference between the 2.
I would takes 12s if I had a choice if not the 18s most likely will be fine.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Yeah, my guns prefer the 12 GUN bullets too.