Aluminum bullets?

[Bezoar]

arent there photographs of aluminum round balls fired at full velocity from a 50 bmg that made grapefruit sized holes in steel plate with a good amount of spalling on the opposite side?

 

[DAVIDSDIVAD]

Since aluminum is so light, there won't be a lot of penetration

Yeah, just like Cor bon's all copper bullets get less penetration because copper is lighter than Lead--- OH WAI




NOTE: All DAVIDSDIVAD posts are the work of a highly egregious, superbly stupendous, overtly expertly young man, and are not to be taken seriously, at any time.

 

[BhmBill]

I shot some aluminum .45 auto stuff from my bro's 1911. Other than being the loudest and having the biggest muzzle flash from any semi auto round i've ever fired, it believe it'd make a halfway decent round. The one's i shot were HP's and they did expand, quite well. They were only around 95gr, but then again, plenty of people use 60 - 120 gr bullets for self defense.

I personally will stick to whats known to work. .357 JHP's for me.

 

[Funderb]

good luck home casting aluminum. Hope you gots lots a argon sitting around.

 

[Sunray]

Al bullets have been discussed before. Not here and not recently. Al is not dense enough for bullets. To get the same weight, an Al bullet would be far too long, in any calibre.
"...shot some aluminum .45 auto stuff..." Made by whom? Al cases aren't the same as Al bullets.
"...in the movie..." Anything is possible in a movie or an animated cartoon. It's fiction. Not fact. Facts just get in the way of telling the story.

 

[MD_Willington]

telomerase

Mk 7 .303 British
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.303_British#Mark_7

 

[herohog]

A Sabot hives light weight and high velocity yet has a smaller diameter so it doesn't shed as much velocity. It is a better answer than aluminum.

 

[WardenWolf]

Aluminum bullets = bad idea. Aluminum has a low melting and burning temperature, and can exceed this while going down the barrel. The result would be it sloughing off large pieces of itself in the barrel. Bad for the gun, bad for accuracy, bad effect on target. Jacketing could help, but I still wouldn't recommend it. Oh, and did I mention it gives off TOXIC gasses at high temperature?

 

[woodybrighton]

(And it's one of the thousands of reasons that no one trusts the Brits )
that right we are evil bwhahahahaaa

good luck with DU bullets every range sealed off as a health hazard:banghead:

 

[Cap'n Jack Burntbeard]

I'd go for some copper jacketed aluminum core 7.62x39, it would sure crank up the velocity of my saiga.

 

[telomerase]

Thanks Willington, better info than I had read before (and straightened out my chronology). Tenite in 1910, who would have thought?

 

[MD_Willington]

I'm both a Canuck and a Brit, double threat.. LOL