Originally Posted by Sevens

This comes from the HEART and backed with the experience of around 100,000 rounds loaded and fired with plated bullets made mostly by Xtreme and Berry’s, but half a dozen plated bullet makers.

It also goes somewhat AGAINST what the plated bullet makers sometimes say and have said in the past.

Here it is:

Do not treat these like LEAD BULLETS. Load them like JACKETED bullets but don’t load them like jacketed bullets in .327, .357, .41 and .44 Magnum.

-WHY-

Because these suckers give far more resistance in a barrel than any cast or swaged lead bullet. If you baby a plated bullet in a revolver, you may eventually stick one in your bore.

This happens specifically in revolvers because revolvers have a flash gap where precious, much needed pressure can bleed out at the wrong time.

If it is a pistol, the bore is sealed as long as the brass obturates, and the bullet is forced to escape with even a light load.

If you load plated overly light in a revolver you will end up sticking one and that is NOWHERE you want to be.

Again, this is experience. It is far better to read it than to have to pound one out. And it’s a helluva lot worse than pounding if you fire a second one behind a stuck one.