Truncated Cone Ammo good for lever actions?

[GP100Wii]

Hello,

I have seen claims from time to time about being careful about pointed ammo in tubular magazines (i.e., for a lever action).

I was looking at grabbing some Fiocchi .357 truncated FMJ. Any potential trouble here?

 

[Tommygunn]

IIRC the bullet has a flat "nose" on it, being "truncated." You should be OK with this in tubular magazine lever-rifles. Primers usually sit a tiny bit below the plane of the round's base. Unless this front nose is really tiny it should rest against the base, not the primer.

 

[stubbicatt]

Too, at least in Ubertis, the magazine tube is quite large for the 357 magnum, resulting in a sort of spiral orientation of the rounds in the magazine, rather than a linear stack. This in turn results in a stack in the tube where the noses of rounds don't line up with the primers of the round in front of them.

I still wouldn't load spitzer type bullets, but I would not be concerned about round nose bullets detonating in the magazine.

 

[MEHavey]

I'm running TC's in both of my `73Wins.
Slicker`n Water

 

[kBob]

Is the meplat (flat spot on front of bullet) bigger around than the primer of the cartridge?

There is you answer.

-kBob