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Any idea where I can find these bullets?

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Looks just like a coated cast bullet.

Precision makes them in Black and Bayout Bullets makes them in Green. Never seen any other colors over here. I would certainly LIKE purple, orange, or blue as opposed to Bayou's green, but its not something I'd lose sleep over :).
 
If several individuals were shooting at the same target it would let you quickly determine who hit what. Might have some applications in gun-games, training environments, and some hunting situations. Would help determining liability in a personal defense, or law enforcement shootings.
 
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If several individuals were shooting at the same target it would let you quickly determine who hit what. Might have some applications in gun-games, training environments, and some hunting situations. Would help determining liability in a personal defense, or law enforcement shootings.
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I doubt the coloring transfers over to the target very much
 
If several individuals were shooting at the same target it would let you quickly determine who hit what. Might have some applications in gun-games, training environments, and some hunting situations. Would help determining liability in a personal defense, or law enforcement shootings.
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I don't see how. I shoot a lot of Bayou bullets with a green coating like this and they leave no trace of green anything on impact. On steel targets its just chipped paint and on paper its just a regular black grease-ring.

I'm sure that under some level of forensic analysis you could tell the color of the coating, but as to personal defense or law-enforcement, I don't see either of those fields going back to a hard-cast lead solid for that nearly trivial improvement.

These coatings basically serve a simple purpose: to make cheap lead bullets foul barrels and smoke a little less. The colors are simply a side effect of the maker being able to dye that coating.
 
You could place a drop of paint in the hollow point cavity if you want to identify your particular bullet once you have found the projectile inside the intended target.
 
I was thinking about recovering the actual bullet. Not any color mark left on the target paper. That never even occurred to me.

Three guys shoot at a deer. They're all using the same cartridge (notice the shotgun slugs?). The deer is hit one time. Who's slug hit the deer? If they each had slugs of a certain color you could tell pretty quick. In a lot of shotgun States group hunting is legal. I’ve been party to many a good nature argument over who should put their tag on a downed deer. “I got it. It’s blue. That’s Bob’s deer.” Not a lot of room for argument.

Two cops shoot at a bad guy. The bad guy is hit but so is a little old lady half way down the street. Who shot who? This would be an easy way to find out without having to wait days or weeks for CSI lab testing. “Officer Smith, good job. Officer Brown, we need to talk.”

Not advocating for colored bullets, or saying they're a good idea. Just spit-ballin’ what they could be used for, since someone asked. We all know bullets don't disappear or designate after you shoot them. Much of the time, especially with handguns, the bullet will be found inside the target, or directly behind it a few inches under the soil.
 
You realize what you're advocating is a primitive form of microstamping/serialization right?


Effective deer cartridges especially slugs seldom leave the bullet in the deer.
 
The question is: Does any one have an answer for the OP?
The company told me they had no plans to export due to cost of shipping and having enough business at present.
 
Commercial export is one thing and private sales are another. If ARES refuses to sell him bullets, OP can try to contact some of the distributors from that list: http://www.ares-gun.sk/?page=5 In both cases he will pay duty taxes and VAT.

As for different colored bullets, the explanation is quite simple - this is an easy and reliable way for quick sorting of powder charge and bullet weight of ammo while on the range, or in the middle of competition.

Boris
 
http://www.bayoubullets.net/Contact.html

Call Donnie, contact info above. All of his are forest green coated, and I can attest to the fact that they produce no smoke what so ever and do not lead your barrel with any load.

There was another company in S. Louisiana that was trying to get started making the same type of bullet in different colors (I beleive they were going to import the materials to produce them from the company's link you posted), but they appear to have not been able to get enough support to start up their operation.
 
They use about nothing but those types in austrailia and europe for some reason.
There's a huge thread about making/trying to make them for yourself over on castboolits.com
 
The totally colorered bullets appear to have a coating similar to the moly coated ones sold by Bayou or Billy's bullets except for their novel color scheme.
 
Using different colors to ID different loads would sure complicate my reloading life! My stash is already diverse enough without another variable - color. For example, I keep lots of 44 cal 240 gr and 38 cal 158 gr on hand to load in several cartridges. If I talked myself into colorizing my stash things would get pretty unmanageable. One of the advantages of handloading is that components are suitable for multiple uses. With the exception of cases (duh!), powders, primers and bullets can be loaded in diverse cartridges.

Sorry to be a naysayer, but to me these are a solution looking for a problem.
 
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