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As if struggling to get powder wasn't bad enough now I'm told that there is a problem with getting Barnes bullets (130grn TSX .30 cal)
Seems like every time I develop a good recipe someone seems to p**s on my chips!

Non lead bullets = oxymoron.

buck52 wrote:As if struggling to get powder wasn't bad enough now I'm told that there is a problem with getting Barnes bullets (130grn TSX .30 cal)
Seems like every time I develop a good recipe someone seems to p**s on my chips!

York Guns has been clearing stock of Barnes bullets to the trade - I just bought the last 50 100gr 7mm for my 7x33 and 150 .416 325gr for the Rigby.
There must be some left but not in the popular sizes I'd guess!

dromia wrote:Non lead bullets = oxymoron.

Oxymoron = a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

So would you have preferred the description, Lead Free (contains no lead) or non (expressing negation or absence) toxic (meaning non poisonous) Bullets? although I fail to see which part of "Non lead bullets is contradictory.

Bullet = a metal (generic description) projectile for firing from a rifle, revolver, or other small firearm, typically cylindrical and pointed, and sometimes containing an explosive.

So to be correct my topic title "non lead bullets" should have read: negation or absence of Pb82-projectiles.

i think its a more 'if it ain't lead, it ain't a bullet' standpoint

bradaz11 wrote:i think its a more 'if it ain't lead, it ain't a bullet' standpoint

How does that work?.For example a milsurp 7.62x39 or 54r isn't lead but it's still a bullet.

The French 8mm Lebel cartridge used a solid brass bullet, and a few large hunting rifles use ammunition with "monolith" type bullets that are turned from solid metal.

snayperskaya wrote:

bradaz11 wrote:i think its a more 'if it ain't lead, it ain't a bullet' standpoint

How does that work?.For example a milsurp 7.62x39 or 54r isn't lead but it's still a bullet.

i was only commenting on where i think Dromia was coming from in his post. as i got this response to a post in a different thread....

dromia wrote:Cast Boolits, you know they make sense.

I think he likes lead....

bradaz11 wrote:

snayperskaya wrote:

bradaz11 wrote:i think its a more 'if it ain't lead, it ain't a bullet' standpoint

How does that work?.For example a milsurp 7.62x39 or 54r isn't lead but it's still a bullet.

i was only commenting on where i think Dromia was coming from in his post. as i got this response to a post in a different thread....

I realise that my mate, it was more a "how does that work" in general

dromia wrote:Cast Boolits, you know they make sense.

I prefer my ammo in FMJ with a steel core thank you