38 wadcutter questions

[CWS&W]

The 45acp precision delta fmj do not work well in my 1911, I always end up with lots of carbon fouling in the rifling. It never happens with coated lead.

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[gregintenn]

The graphite lube on them is basically pencil lead. It is nasty, but man you have a prize. Those things shoot great!

 

[AzShooter]

Thanks guys this helps me a lot. Will try about 50 dry & see what happens. I don't think I am going to need all that I have & probably will post some for sale after I try these. That will be at a later date

Shoot them all! These days there are problems finding bullets so keep them and have a good time shooting.

The wadcutters are very accurate with the right load and you can see your hits easier. I'm an old USPSA shooter with the revolver. I use the full wadcutter for practicing my reloads. If you can do a full wadcutter imaging how much faster your reloads will be with LRN.

 

[DeplorabusUnum]

Precision Delta makes a 148 gr HBWC Match Lube bullet that sounds exactly like what you have. It looks like this:

You said yours were hard. These are not. I tested the hardness at Brinell 9.8. I just shot some today. I bought 1000 before I started casting my own. They are great for plinking low velocity 38 Sp. loads. 3 gr. of bullseye or 2.5 gr of Trail Boss makes a nice soft accurate load for punching paper.

 

[glenwolde]

Precision Delta makes a 148 gr HBWC Match Lube bullet that sounds exactly like what you have. It looks like this:

You said yours were hard. These are not. I tested the hardness at Brinell 9.8. I just shot some today. I bought 1000 before I started casting my own. They are great for plinking low velocity 38 Sp. loads. 3 gr. of bullseye or 2.5 gr of Trail Boss makes a nice soft accurate load for punching paper.

Compared to the Remingtons those look like they've been sterilized.

 

[nbedford]

My cast wad cutters like the 800-920 fps range out of a wheel gun. You have to keep the hbwc under about 780 to be accurate.

My home cast Lee .358" 150 grain button nose wad cutters run an average of 734 fps over 2.7 grains of Bullseye. And they are very accurate